Central Asia – Russian Roulette Episode #6

In this episode, Olga Oliker and Jeffrey Mankoff sit down with their CSIS colleague Matthew Goodman, Senior Adviser for Asian economics and William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, who just returned from Kazakhstan, to discuss his impressions of the country and prospects for connectivity across Eurasia. Then, they take a deep dive into the human rights situation in Central Asia with Steve Swerdlow of Human Rights Watch. You can find a link to Matthew Goodman’s work on the CSIS Simon Chair website: http://bit.ly/1WP7aX2. To read more from Steve Swerdlow, head over to the Human Rights Watch website: http://bit.ly/24UiUa0. Finally, you can access the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program’s “Central Asia in a Reconnecting Eurasia” report series here: http://bit.ly/1UymGo9.