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Edward Lemon

4 years

Delighted that Democratization published my article with Oleg Antonov "Authoritarian Legal Harmonization in the Post-Soviet Space"

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

6 years

The Soviet Union’s national football team, 1927

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

Oleg Antonov and I ran yesterday's declaration recognizing #Luhansk with the 2008 one recognizing South Ossetia through a plagiarism checker. Here is the result:

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 months

@simonmontefiore @DimitarBechev It wasn't always this way on the other side of the Atlantic

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Only two regions in Central Asia have constitutionally-mandated autonomous status: Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan and Mountainous Badakhshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan. Both regions have seen brutal crackdowns on protests in the past two months

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

Very excited to have accepted the position of Research Assistant Professor at @BushSchool @TAMU new Washington DC teaching site starting in September #AggiesAllTheWay #AcademicTwitter

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

Hearing unconfirmed reports from sources in Tajikistan that the country's Alfa Group, the special forces of the GKNB, are at Aini airbase poised to fly to Kazakhstan to aid the government

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

If Twitter collapses, you will find me here...

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

6 years

A late Christmas present. My first book (or more accurately edited volume)!

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

Библиотека имени Лемона практически завершена

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

6 months

Just because a few Tajiks have been involved in terrorism globally in recent years does not mean that all Tajiks are potential threats. 99.98% of the population did not mobilize to Syria and the online terrorist channels I track have a few dozen to low hundreds of followers

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

Bringing a little Central Asia to my student meetings

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

It's official! I am delighted to have won a @DoDMinerva grant for a 3 year project on hierarchy and resilience in international relations, with a focus on Central Asia, with @yuvalweber & Marlene Laruelle. @BushSchoolDC will release a video of us talking about the grant tomorrow

Inst. for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

@IERES_GWU

4 years

We're excited to announce that IERES Director Marlene Laruelle, @yuvalweber and @EdwardLemon3 have been awarded a grant from @DoDMinerva ! Read more about their project, “Conceptualizing Hierarchy and Resilience in Great Power Politics,” here:

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

7 years

Cool map of rivers in Central Asia created by Dr Patryk Reid for upcoming conference on rivers in Eurasia in Pittsburgh

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

For the past six months I have been working on a new non-profit focused on Central Asia, the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs @OxusSociety . We plan to become a hub for research, debate and scholarship on Central Asia. We will launch on September 28.

The Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs

@OxusSociety

4 years

A thread about Oxus: Founded in 2020, the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs is a DC-based non-profit organization dedicated to fostering academic exchange between Central Asia and the rest of the world. We will launch on September 28

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

5 years

Today I lost the person who made me who I am today. The most courageous woman I know, who kept laughing and smiling right to the end. Here she is as I will always remember her, the life and soul of the party, dancing away at Navruz celebrations in Shahrtuz, Tajikistan in 2012

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

5 years

So I used a plagiarism checker to compare legislation on extremism in Russia (2002), with Tajikistan (2003), Kyrgyzstan (2005), Kazakhstan (2005) and Uzbekistan (2018).

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Edward Lemon

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5 months

While I am quoted here, I don't agree that Tajikistan has become a "breeding ground" for terrorists. A tiny minority were recruited and played an outsized role in IS ops, but framing the country as a hotbed is misleading and feeds into the xenophobia now being spread in Russia

Irna Hofman

@IrnaHofman

5 months

Erg jammer dat Tadzjikistan (toch) een voedingsbodem voor terrorisme wordt genoemd @gjdennekamp , @Peter__Leonard , @EdwardLemon3 : "IS is an attractive alternative for many Tajiks"

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

7 years

Don't let Saipov taint your idea of Central Asia, a land of mountains, history, adventure and hospitality. Read more about it and go there!

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

1 year

US 🇺🇸 visitor visa rejection rates in 2022 Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 44% Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 38% Tajikistan 🇹🇯 58% Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 36% Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 47%

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

One of the most well-respected NGOs in Tajikistan shuttered, hundreds arrested and dozens dead. The casualties of Tajikistan's authoritarian consolidation continue to mount

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@PeaceForPamir

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Ongoing repression against Pamir indigenous people. The only Association of lawyers in Pamir was closed. Now the head on this NGO is in prison.

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Chinese trade with Central Asia was $459 million in 1992, $1.7 billion in 2000 and over $45 billion last year, a 100× increase in 30 years

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Rate my plov...

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

Now we have room for our books

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

A decade ago I ran 260 miles over nine days from St Andrews to Uig on the Isle of Skye in memory of my best friend Haris who tragically died. Looking back, as someone who now struggles through a ten mile run, I can't believe I did it

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

1 year

Officially, 12% of Uzbekistan's population, 30% of Tajikistan's and 11% of Kyrgyzstan's population live in Russia. These figures keep rising. Remittances make up around 1/3 of Kyrgyz and Tajik economies.

Navbahor Imamova

@Navbahor

1 year

Russian Internal Affairs Ministry: September 2022 Migrant workers: Uzbekistan 4, 465, 692 Tajikistan 2, 714, 331 Kyrgyzstan 675, 968 Students: Tajikistan 81, 671 Kazakhstan 71, 568 Uzbekistan 55, 388

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

Quite possibly the favorite photo I have taken. My climbing partner Charlie in an exposed position on the first accent of a 5,200m peak on the Kyrgyz-Chinese border in 2011. We would summit after this and then began an epic descent, arriving back 28 hrs after leaving base camp

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

6 months

While the threat within the country has been minimal, Tajikistan had the third highest per capita recruitment to Syria in the world, it's citizens took on key roles in IS and have been involved in attacks or foiled plots in Iran, Afghanistan, Germany and Turkey this past year.

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

Библиотека имени Лемона

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

A year ago today in Bishkek at one of my favorite spots, the shashlik places on Lineynaya Street by the train tracks. Wish I was able to be there now

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

New library set up

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

I got tired of not being able to go to the bar...

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

6 months

There was no genocide of Russians in Tajikistan during the Civil War (1992-1997). Most Russians left as a result of the fighting and independence, but there was no targeting of ethnic Russians.

Bahruz Samadov (the Lack Observer)

@bahruz_samad

6 months

There is a specific hatred towards Tajiks in Russia. Many Z Telegram channels already remind the "genocide" of Russians in 90s in Tajikistan. This is an old conspiracy theory popular among Russian nationalists

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

6 months

Might not be the best idea

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

Wish I was self-isolating in Lakhsh (Jirgitol) in Tajikistan

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

I am delighted that together with Oleg Antonov, Bo Petersson, and Olena Podolian, I have won a three-year grant from the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies for a project entitled "Authoritarian Policy Transfer in Post-Soviet States"

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

1 year

Important chart showing growing unfavorable feelings towards Russia in Kazakhstan

Tlegen Kuandykov

@tlegensk

1 year

Read and learn about the changing attitudes towards Russia in Kazakhstan from @barometer_ca data! Many thanks to the @ForSetGe Fellowship Program, the great team of @Vlastkz , and @PaoloBottleneck for their support in writing this material!

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

5 years

Useful English-Tatar phrasebook from 1837!

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

The scale of the economic disruption in Central Asia from Russia's invasion of Ukraine remains unclear. But the latest World Bank projections are grim reading. Remittances sent from Kyrgyz migrants expected to fall by 33% and to Tajikistan by 22%

Central Asia to suffer as remittances from Russia nosedive

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, two of the most migrant-dependent countries in the world, will be most severely affected by the fall in remittances from Russia.

eurasianet.org

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

How it started. How its going

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

This is the daughter of the Tajik president (a soon to be hereditary regime) giving her credentials to the queen (head of a much longer-standing hereditary regime) today as incoming Tajik ambassador to the UK today

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Tajikistan sending a high-level delegation to Washington next week to meet with IMF, World Bank, USG to ask for assistance as sanctions cause economic downturn in the country, according to Tajik ambassador

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

5 years

Another beautiful book with photos of Turkmenistan, published in 1885

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

1 year

A college called Alabuga Polytechnic in Yelabuga Special Economic Zone is actively recruiting Central Asian and African girls as young as 15 to study. When they arrive, they are forced to make Shahed drones to be used in Ukraine

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Meeting of Uzbekistan's security council yesterday. 55 men in the photo. 0 women.

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

6 years

Irish journalist Edmond O’Donovan, who lived in Merv between 1879 and 1881

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

My wife posts this screenshot of the Vice News documentary I appeared in and now all my friends and family think I am on Interpol's list...

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

5 years

A whopping 79% of Kyrgyzstan's and 56% of Tajikistan's laws are identical to the Russian law (compared with 4% for Kazakhstan, 5% for Uzbekistan). #authoritarianlearning

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Got that special k after 10 years! Thanks to all my followers for tolerating the mix of cats, rare books and Central Asia!

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

5 years

A whole book demonstrating the limitations of academic prognostications

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

Essential evening reading

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

In 2018, my uncle decided to interview my mother about her life and memories. At the time, I wasn't happy; she had a brain tumor and I didn’t want to confront her mortality. But now I can listen to hours of my beloved Mum reminiscing about her life

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

At the request of @minervaknecht , here is a list of travelogues through Central Asia, focused on the early Soviet, Tsarist and pre-Tsarist periods. This is no way a full list, just some of my favourites.

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

State media in Tajikistan publishes article claiming that "The history of mankind shows how the Tajik people [...] are privileged (superior) compared to the past pages of the history of the Kyrgyz people."

НЕК АНДЕША КУНЕД! Муроҷиат ба мардуми Қирғизистон — АМИТ "Ховар"

khovar.tj

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

1 month

I think I am better at collecting books than writing them...

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

Today I am thinking of the two most important women in my life. My mother, who bequeathed the money that allowed us to start Oxus & would have loved how we have brought people together. My wife Eve (whose birthday it is today) who came up with the idea & helped us make it happen

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Map of the Soviet Union scaled by the population of its colonies

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

Another arrival today

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

With Navruz comes new life. I am so happy to be uncle to this beautiful girl. Can't wait to meet her.

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 months

An eye-opening first day in Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 More when I return.

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

7 years

Amazing! "Marxism-Lennonism," a stamp from Abkhazia, 1994 @CCCP_pix

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

My wife bought me this beautiful 1884 edition of the Rubaiyat illustrated by Elihu Vedder

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Caption this:

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Western governments have pumped hundreds of millions of $$$ in security assistance into Tajikistan. Not only has it been used to keep the authoritarian regime in power and kill civilians, Tajikistan's government routinely blames the West for destabilizing it. Time for a rethink

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

5 years

A beautiful birthday present from my wife

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

My motto for this time, courtesy of ⁦ @kennaninstitute ⁩

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

What a map

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

5 years

No this is not the ice planet Hoth. It is Chinese border guards on yak patrol in the Pamirs, near the Chinese-Tajik border m/t @hausibek

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

8 years

Final version of my PhD thesis, Governing Islam and Security in Tajikistan, now online.

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Nice present to come home to!

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

5 years

Two days after collapsing with seizures due to her brain tumor, my mother is still taking Monty Python’s advice. I know no one who is as quietly strong and determinedly positive as Mrs Lemon!

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

How it started (six years ago today). How its going.

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@EdwardLemon3

4 years

We have just ordered @OxusSociety mugs. We can't rival @kennaninstitute 's mug game. But I think they look quite pretty!

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

Another egregious example of transnational repression. Inandy was a Kyrgyz citizen

Kadyr M. Toktogul

@KadyrToktogulov

3 years

President @RTErdogan : Turkish intelligence services brought Orhan Inandi to Turkey

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@EdwardLemon3

3 years

Библиотека имени Лемона растет. Октябрь 2020 г. и сегодня

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@EdwardLemon3

5 years

Can’t wait to read these!

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@EdwardLemon3

5 years

Ceiling of Bishkek-1 railway station

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

Introducing the latest member of our family Ælfric Lemon 🍋

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

Today I officially join @BushSchool @TAMU as a Research Assistant Professor. I am looking forward to helping develop the new Washington DC Teaching Site! #GigEm #AggiePride #AggiesAllTheWay

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

4 years

Here is my mother a year ago, staying positive despite her terminal illness. Thinking of everyone who has lost their mother today.

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@EdwardLemon3

4 years

Today, we launched @OxusSociety . But it is also a special anniversary for me personally. Ten years since I first moved to Tajikistan, and it happened by accident...

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@EdwardLemon3

4 years

We hired a new barman

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

"Modernization" continues in Dushanbe as the country's first KFC opened yesterday

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@EdwardLemon3

7 years

Forget most other English-language articles. Read this via @eurasianet

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@EdwardLemon3

3 years

Having worked on this with @Jardine_bradley & @natalielhall94 for many months, I am excited about the publication of our new report, the first to compile data on all known cases of transnational repression against the Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities by the Chinese government

The Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs

@OxusSociety

3 years

Next week, partnership with @UyghurProject , we will publish a groundbreaking report on the Chinese government's targeting of Uyghur and other Turkic minorities abroad, documenting 1,577 cases of detention and rendition in 28 countries since 1997

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@EdwardLemon3

6 years

@Peter__Leonard You think he could have at least attached some gold-painted plastic plates to the ends to make himself look really strong

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@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Does anyone in DC like sumalak? Free to a good home

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@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Once again the government of Tajikistan invokes emergency to block internet in Khorog, making it difficult for anyone outside to know what is going on. Alarming times in the Pamirs

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

5 years

Have a summary of the new strategy for Central Asia and am struck by how little new is in here: sovereignty, terrorism, connectivity, Afghanistan, human rights and development

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@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Kazakh embassy in London tonight

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4 years

Women in the Tajik SSR, taken in the 1930s

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@EdwardLemon3

5 years

2020 starts with laghman

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@EdwardLemon3

2 years

Not a good look. Outgoing EU representative to Tajikistan fawns all over the president's son in law, who happens to be connected to grand corruption and money laundering for the country's kleptocratic elite

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@EdwardLemon3

2 years

God Save the King!

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@EdwardLemon3

4 years

Nine years ago this month @drgarethmottram , Charlie Evans, Hannes Grunberg and I made the first accent of this 5,200m mountain on the Kyrgyz-China border. We named it Egemendeluk (Эгемендүүлүк) or Independence. Happy Independence Day to Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬!!

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Edward Lemon

@EdwardLemon3

3 years

It was an honor to share the stage with a fearless advocate for democracy today!

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

@Tsihanouskaya

3 years

Thankful to @IWPR for the opportunity to discuss the crisis in Belarus. I hope that our peaceful resistance can inspire people around the globe to value democracy where they have it and to fight for it where they lack it. @cabarasia Read the full speech: .

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1 year

It was my pleasure to be a reviewer for Joldon Kutmanaliev's book-length study of the 2010 ethnic violence in the south of Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬. I highly recommend reading it!

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@EdwardLemon3

2 years

The solution to the conflict: the Kyrgyz side need to "take time off from other activities to study the history and destiny of the Tajik nation." This kind of nationalistic and chauvinistic discourse is deeply harmful!

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@EdwardLemon3

3 years

Feeling the Nowruz spirit in DC