Literary and Photographic Legacies of Russia in the Chinese City of Harbin
Julius Kochan, RSAA Travel Awards 2024 Recipient, with guest host Dr Winnie King
25 June 2025, 14.00 BST Online
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Kazakh-Afghan Relations: The Competition for Trade and Connectivity in Central Asia
Eldaniz Gusseinov is a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Haydar Aliyev Center for Eurasian Studies and a Columnist for Daryo In recent years, the relationship between Kazakhstan and Afghanistan has been changing significantly, driven by stronger economic and diplomatic ties. A major turning point came in December 2023 when Kazakhstan decided to remove the Taliban from…
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Young Nepalis Tricked into Fighting Putin’s War
Nick Hinton is Chairman of the Britain-Nepal NGO Network (BRANNGO) and a former British Gurkha officer The Russian ‘Special Military Operation’ against Ukraine is shocking in so many ways, but perhaps one of the most egregious is the way in which young men from Nepal have been tempted or tricked into serving with Russian forces. It…
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Damage Control: Kazakhstan after the January 2022 Crisis
Professor Charles J Sullivan, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan In early January 2022, the Republic of Kazakhstan (once regarded for its political stability and economic development in a conflict-prone and impoverished region) suffered an unexpected and unprecedented bout of political violence. Based upon my initial analysis elsewhere, it appears that “an elite faction within the government seized…
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What is Happening to Kazakhstan?
A panel discussion with Peter Frankopan, hosted jointly with The Oxus Society, 14 January 2022, 14.00
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The Afghanistan File: Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan
The Hugh Leach Memorial Lecture
His Royal Highness Prince Turki Alfaisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 22 September 2021, 14:00 -
Memoires of a Qajar Persian Prince
Michael Noel-Clarke, who studied as an undergraduate in Esfahan and later served in the British Embassy in Tehran (1970-74), has recently translated the memoires of Prince Arfa, a prominent member of the Persian establishment at the end of the 19th century. The book has been published by Gingko Library as Memories of a Bygone Age: Qajar Persia and Imperial Russia…
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Russia and Eurasia
This month sees the launch of Black Wind, White Snow by Charles Clover, former Moscow FT Bureau chief. Bijan Omrani, Editor of the Asian Affairs Journal, attended a speech by Clover this week at Pushkin House in London to mark the book’s release. What reasons can be given for Vladimir Putin’s belligerence? How is it…
