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Pleased to participate in the #Novruz celebration at the @CambridgeCAF together with friends from Central Asia. Our sincere thanks go to Professor @montu_saxena who kindly and successfully organises this wonderful event for 24 years and congratulations to the talented @sakinamukhtarli and her team as well as to all musicians on great cultural performances!
Novruz Mübarək!
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Talk tomorrow @CCAForum on Navigating the New Geopolitics of Central Asia: Kazakhstan and its Place in Emerging Supply Chains of Critical Minerals
By @JNemsingh, Univ. of Rotterdam
9 February 2024
11am-1pm Room SG2, ARB, 7 West Road, Cambridge OR Zoom: zoom.us/meeting/register/tJI…
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Seminar: Digital Silk Road - Digital Roads of Kazakhstan🗓️Wed 6th December
⌚️12:30 - 14:00
Join us for the last IKD seminar in 2023 with amazing speakers @baloyuna @Digisilk_kcl @OU_FASS @OU_GCSJ @OU_CSGD
For more details and to register: www5.open.ac.uk/ikd/events/i…
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With deep regret & considerable dismay, we tender our resignation "We cannot be associated with or placed in a position of responsibility for a decision by the U.K. Government, implemented by #UKRI in this manner." @JoBeall1 @OlivetteOtele @ZoeNorridge @FiddianQasmiyeh #odacuts
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A must read for both academics and practitioners! Thank you Shailaja for sharing this at our Global Challenges GCRF COMPASS winter school in Feb! @GCRF_COMPASS @CCAForum @harjivsingh
Millets have “huge potential for meeting food needs in the future” says Jesus College Fellow Dr Shailaja Fennell in an article for @mongabayindia bit.ly/2YzxF8P #ClimateChange #millets @shailajafennell @GlobalFood_Camb @MillNETi
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Can't wait for the Digital Dialogue conference @ENUofficial next week to explore cooperation opportunities in Central Asia - more info at : cadd.site #CADD2018 #CentralAsia #DigitalTransformation #SDG4 #SDG8 #SDG17
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Kazakhstan could become a high income country within a decade. Significant opportunities for growth and development in wheat, livestock, and transport & logistics. #kazakhstan #2030 #OBOR www-brookings-edu.cdn.amppro…
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Our final issue of 2017 is out! Check the table of contents for great new research on #Russia #EasternEurope #Eurasia: tandfonline.com/toc/ceas20/c…
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Idiotic. Self-destructive. Moronic. Do I need to keep going ? British academia being seriously damaged. Experts @britishmuseum being forced to leave the UK. I’m fuming. You should be too. Please sign and RT. It’s important chn.ge/2Bw2uOW via @UKChange
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"For India, Central #Asia is significant, not merely as an extended neighbour with civilizational links, but because of economic, security and energy advantages." - Chokan Laumulin, Researcher, @Cambridge_Uni at One Globe 2017
#Trade #Investment #India
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More and more of the unique and mysterious geoglyphs keep being discovered in KZ and the number is now over 200. Their ages are between 3,000 and 7000 years or older and they can only be viewed from high in the air.
ufosightingshotspot.blogspot…
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A Hātim-nāma illustration (draft for a miniature painting?) of a war between dews and parīs in our manuscript collection. Hātim is in the top left being carried in the opposite direction via @mkhanpasha
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Maryam Mirzakhani was both the first woman & first Iranian to be honoured with the Fields Medal. This is a fantastic way to celebrate her short, yet illustrious life ow.ly/kRop30hayRe
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The Burial Dress of the Rus' in the Upper Volga Region.
This book by Iuliia Stepanova is devoted to the Old Rus’ dress of the Upper Volga area, as gleaned from the archaeological evidence of the burial sites.
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Dr Saxena attending a meeting of representatives from the #UK and Kazakhstan in London today. Speakers: Baroness Emma Nicolson (PM's #Trade Envoy), His Excellency Idrissov (Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the UK) and Her Excellency Browne (Ambassador of the UK to #Kazakhstan)
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Pile Carpet/ Russia. Pazyryk Culture. 5th - 4th century BC/ Found by Rudenko, 1949. Altai Territory, Pazyryk Boundary, the Valley of the River Bolshoy Ulagan
This is world's most ancient pile carpet found in the largest of the Pazyryk burial mounds.
bit.ly/2AIDqnm
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Marat Akhmedjanov Promoting Silk Road in London thelondonpost.net/marat-akhm… via @The London Post
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Telling infographic about Islamic education. Kyrgyzstan has 112 institutions, Uzbekistan 11, Kazakhstan 12 and Tajikistan just one teapawt.net/A_Melikishvili/status/…
Very useful reference on #Islam in #CentralAsia (minus Turkmenistan) by experts from the region commissioned by German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung drive.google.com/file/d/0B_O…
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Book launch alert! Nationalism in Central Asia: A Biography of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary by Nick Megoran from @StudentsNCL #Cambridge #events #CentralAsia
