Gender Equality or Gender Inequality?
A gender perspective in anticipation of Women’s Day looks completely natural. However, the problems of society’s attitude to women is so serious that go far beyond the celebratory presentations, speeches and congratulations. As we know, gender inequality remains a major barrier to human development. For all basic parameters set by […]
Asya Avrupa No: 15
Merhabalar, Mart 2017 sayımız ile karşınızdayız. Bu sayıda Türk dili konuşan ülkeler parlamenterler asamblesi TürkPA genel sekreteri sayın Jandos Asanov ile yapılan röportaja yer veriyoruz. Türk Keneşi’nin projelerine yasal destek sağlamayı taahhüt eden bir kurum olan TürkPA, kurulduğu günden itibaren üye ülkeler arasında parlamento tecrübesinin geliştirilmesi, öncelikli işbirliği alanlarında üye […]
The Results of the Presidential Election in Turkmenistan and Strategic Priorities
On February 12, 2017, the fifth presidential election was held in Turkmenistan. According to the Central Election Commission of Turkmenistan, the turnout in the election was 97.27% or 3,140,865 of registered voters. Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov was reelected as the President for the third time with 97.69% (3,068,311) of votes. The presidential […]
New Stage of the Turkmen Diversification Policy of Energy Export Routes
For the second consecutive year, Turkmenistan is facing the problem of decline in the amount of its natural gas customers. In 2017 Ashgabat reduced the list of its natural gas export routes down to one, namely, to China. In the early January 2016, the Russian state gas company Gazprom formally […]
Electricity Generation in Kazakhstan: Current Trends and Prospects
As an energy-rich developing country, Kazakhstan is deeply concerned over its ability to provide sufficient energy supply for sustainable economic growth. Kazakhstan’s energy mix is still dominated by fossil fuels. (Karatayev & Clarke, 2014) According to the Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company (KEGOC), in 2015 the lion share or 81.6% of […]
Economics and Politics of Energy in Central Asia and Caucasus
Central Asia and Caucasus has always been economically powerful regions throughout the world history.However, in the beginning of 21st century, Central Asia and Caucasus with its high oil and natural gas reserves regained importance and these countries have attracted attention with their high economic potentials. It seems that the energy […]
4 December 2016 Presidential Election and New Foreign Policy of Uzbekistan
On 4 December 2016, the Uzbek citizens went to the polls to elect the second President of the country. Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who has been the Prime Minister since 2003 and who has been the acting President after Islam Karimov’s death on 2 September 2016, won the election. According to the […]
Evaluation of the Parliamentary Elections to the State Duma in Russia
The 7th legislative elections for the State Duma, which is the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, were held on September 18, 2016. According to the results of the Russian Central Election Commission, 47.82% (namely 52,631,849) of 110,061,200 registered voters participated in the elections and the United Russia Party won […]
Russia’s Immigration Policy: How Does it Affect Different Labor Migrant Groups?
With 12 million people migrating to Russia annually the country holds the second most popular migrant magnet destination title after United States (47 million) (UN, 2016). Russia sets apart from other migrant-receiving countries in terms of structure, profile and background of the migration influx to Russia. In usual cases, people […]
Russia-Uzbekistan Migration Agreement
Relations between the Central Asian countries and Russia integrated with each other in many aspects and one of them is labor migration from Central Asia to Russia. Labor migration from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to Russia is essentially important for these remittance-dependent countries in Central Asia. For international migrants, Russia […]