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April 29, 2019

Mediterranean Migrant Crisis: Impact of Irregular Refugee Deals

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

Russia’s Demographics in 2018

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

Will Russia and Japan Reach Consensus on Kuril Islands?

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

Eurasian Research Institute: Past, Present and Future

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

Causes of Professional Burnout among Teachers

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

China’s Air Silk Road Initiative: Role of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

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

Potential for Developing Cultural Tourism in Turkistan Region

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

Innovations in China: Capacity for Technology Transfer to Kazakhstan

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 […]

March 5, 2019

China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor: Interests of the Parties

On June 24, 2016, during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tashkent, the presidents of China, Mongolia and Russia agreed on the China-Mongolia- Russia Economic Corridor (CMREC), which is an important project of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The project aims at realizing joint projects in areas such […]

February 26, 2019

President Mirziyoyev’s Pivot to Central Asian Cooperation: Progress Made over Two Years

Uzbekistan, which shares common borders with all the Central Asian states and Afghanistan, has become a key trendsetter in the region during the past two years. Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who came to power after the death of the country’s first president, Islam Karimov, in August 2016 and won the election in […]