Emma Harden-Wolfson

Higher education in Central Asia blog

  • It’s official – China now owns part of Tajikistan

    Wrapping up a deal done earlier this year, China has now formally taken over 1% of Tajikistan in the desolate eastern Tajik Pamir mountain range. A short but interesting – and ever so slightly sardonic – story on this is on the Asian Correspondent . At the time, the Tajik government claimed moral victory over their… Read more

  • Where in the world would you least expect high property costs?

    You could provide several answers to that question, but the article I’m posting here looks at Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. No, really.   Intrigued? Read the full article on the wonderful Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website for more.   By the way, this is my first post in the ‘bureaucratic madness’ category and it… Read more

  • Poverty and prejudice afflict Central Asian migrants in Moscow

    An interesting story from the Washington Post, reprinted here in the Seattle Times, focussing on the lifestyle of Tajik and Uzbek migrants working in Moscow. Nation & World | Poverty, prejudice afflict migrants to Moscow | Seattle Times Newspaper. Read more

  • Starting as I hope to go on…

    Hello, and welcome to my blog!  All the advice I’ve read about starting a blog says you should focus on one area you’re particularly interested in. Well, I’ve got a lot of quite different interests so I’ve chosen to focus on two areas, which do sometimes overlap: 1. Central Asia and the post-Soviet world One… Read more