Memorial Day Link Dump
Happy Memorial Day to all those who have put their lives on the line for their respective nation and people.
I was going to discuss the latest Freedom House Media Report, but was having problems accessing their website. Maybe Kazakhstan’s government has gotten to them too! Expect this tomorrow or soon after.
Kyrg seismic activity researchers forecast a large earthquake in Central Asia in the next couple years and a mild one in the next two months. This is obviously concerning, especially with China’s horrific recent experience.
UCLA’s Asia Institute and partners launched a Central Asia Initiative whose goal is to better understand societies and cultures long ‘on the fringes.’ A conference will be held in October and will ask ‘what changed on the steppes of Central Asia as states acquired the means to move and deport whole peoples.’
For a unrelated Central Asia Initiative project, Doug Chabot, a mountaineer, is a one-man humanitarian mission in Pakistan and Afghanistan, working to promote education by visiting local schools.
‘Compulsory Reading‘- Uzbek’s President Karimov has a brand new ‘book that won’t be read’ called “Morality Is Invincible Power” a supposed spiritual guide for all Uzbeks and don’t worry if you’re from another country, it’s for you too! And I thought my summer reading list was bad.