E-Bulletin
May 6, 2019
In the past two years, regional cooperation in Central Asia has been undergoing significant changes due to the transformation of the political establishment in some of the regional countries. Kyrgyzstan, with its special place in the region, the so-called “democratic island” of Central Asia, has also influenced this trend. Therefore, […]
April 30, 2019
The Aral Sea used to be the world’s fourth largest lake but has lost 90% of its volume since 1960s due to the Soviet Union’s massive water diversion and irrigation activities, mainly for cotton production. It is now one of the world’s largest man-made ecological disasters as the desiccation of […]
April 29, 2019
On March 15, 2019, the civil war in Syria which started after Syrian armed forces used brutal force to crack down on protesters demanding the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad entered its ninth year. The escalation of the conflict between the government and the opposition forces has turned the country […]
April 25, 2019
The Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) of the Russian Federation reported that the number of the country’s residents as of January 1, 2019 equaled 144.439 million people, which is 88,000 people less than a year ago. Thus, over the course of 2018, the population of Russia decreased for the first […]
April 16, 2019
The period under Shinzo Abe’s leadership in Japan can already be described as historical for both internal and external policies of the country. He returned to power for the second time, an extremely rare situation for the Japanese political culture in the absence of a serious political crisis, thus he […]
April 11, 2019
The Eurasian Research Institute of the Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University jointly established by the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Turkey is a think tank, which is tasked with following economic, political, social and cultural developments, as well as analyzing and developing strategies on issues related to […]
April 6, 2019
The problem of professional burnout, although not a discovery of the 21st century, has nonetheless attracted the attention of not only researchers but also the public over the past decade. This is due to active social changes and multiple reforms in areas where the main functions are training, care, counseling, treatment […]
April 5, 2019
The recent aggravation of geopolitical, geo-economic and military confrontations on the global and regional scales along with the in-creased global and regional economic crises have negatively affected China’s economy, which had a high growth rate for many years, leading to a decrease in Chinese exports and the flow of foreign […]
March 29, 2019
Kazakhstan’s tourism industry ranked 81st out of 136 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Competitive-ness Index 2017. This indicates that the country’s rank has moved up from the 85th position in 2015. If we compare it with the rankings of other post-Soviet countries, we can see that […]
March 19, 2019
China as an emerging superpower intensifies its Research & Development (R&D) capabilities day by day. The country’s progress in innovations has become possible through the efficient implementation of the Reforms and Opening Up policy over the last 40 years. The Chinese government attaches great importance to the Science & Engineering […]