For over six months, Kyrgyzstan has been mired in a high-level corruption scandal: a disastrous $386 million project to rebuild Bishkek’s Power Plant, funded by Chinese state funds. RU
As Kyrgyzstan’s new regime consolidates power, fresh allegations of corruption by Atambayev loyalists are emerging.
The Central Asian state’s Tian Shan mountain range isn’t just home to shrinking glaciers. It’s also the site of an international mining operation.
A new investigation reveals another side of Chinese infrastructure projects in Central Asia: elite corruption.
Can Armenia’s Velvet Revolution deliver change for communities struggling for their health, livelihoods and futures? Armenian, RU
The fight against corruption is often sold as the pill to end all postsocialist ills. Activists and researchers in Poland, Russia and Ukraine give their views on why we need to challenge it.
A British mining company has struck gold in southern Armenia. What’s in it for the locals? Updated 3 February with reply. Русский
International investment in fossil fuel extraction is making me and other Azerbaijani political prisoners hostages to the Aliyev regime.
News of fresh fossil fuel loans and corruption confirm a harsh truth — European and international institutions continue to actively support the Aliyev regime in Azerbaijan.
The arrest of a federal minister shows that, in Russia, the government and the country’s largest state company are increasingly turning to force. Русский
This manifesto was penned by a group of Russian activists and intellectuals about the current political situation in Russia, and what must be done to change it.
The resurgence of fighting with Azerbaijan could hinder progressive mobilisation in Armenia, but recent environmental initiatives reveal the appetite for resistance to the economy of extraction.
