Our Take: Central Asia’s Old Dogs Learn New Tricks
Our Take: Central Asia’s Old Dogs Learn New Tricks
Author(s): TOL Our TakeSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Transitions Online
Keywords: Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; Tajikistan; Central Asia; political repression; Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov's regime; Saparmurat Niyazov; satellite dishes; mobile Internet service operators; Uzbek Communication and Information Agency and UzbekTelecom; banned the
Summary/Abstract: The region’s autocrats have learned how to fake modernization while maintaining a very old-fashioned kind of rule.
Journal: Transitions Online
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 08/30
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
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