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  • CAPS Unlock
  • Aigerim Kopeyeva
  • December 3, 2025
  • 8 min read
The Missing Half of Education Quality: Equality
What does Kazakhstan’s focus on exam scores and rankings overlook about the broader link between educational quality and equality of opportunity?
The Missing Half of Education Quality: Equality
  • CAPS Unlock
  • November 14, 2025
  • 6 min read
Turning It Around in the classroom
It’s a Tuesday morning in a bright, slightly noisy classroom in Almaty region. The rain from last night has left the playground shining, and 20 eight-year-olds are already buzzing with...
Turning It Around in the classroom
  • Domestic Politics
  • Catherine Nixon
  • November 10, 2025
  • 14 min read
World Nomad Games: Did the experiment work?
Launched in 2014, the six-day event is the only multi-sport competition devoted to the traditional sports of nomadic peoples.
World Nomad Games: Did the experiment work?
  • China
  • October 3, 2025
  • 5 min read
Mapping Global China: a new lens on Beijing’s reach in Central Asia
Mapping Global China offers a way to track projects across Central Asia, showing how local choices and outside influence intertwine.
Mapping Global China: a new lens on Beijing’s reach in Central Asia
  • Civil Society
  • Aida Aidarkulova
  • August 4, 2025
  • 8 min read
Why FATF compliance is undermining Kazakhstan’s civil society, not terrorism
International guidance on fighting money-laundering is being used to tighten rules for NGOs. Civil society is worried.
Why FATF compliance is undermining Kazakhstan’s civil society, not terrorism
  • Foreign Policy
  • Azimzhan Khitakhunov
  • July 4, 2025
  • 10 min read
Second Central Asia-China summit: Initiatives and priorities
At the China–Central Asia summit in Astana, bold new proposals were made to deepen cooperation. But can the region move from bilateral deals to a truly regional strategy, and compete...
Second Central Asia-China summit: Initiatives and priorities
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