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Turan Tales

Long form newsletter and podcast covering underreported stories from Central Asia by journalist and author Agnieszka Pikulicka

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Latest episodes

  1. Episode 44: Why does China have an image problem in Central Asia?6 Aug 2026
  2. Can Tajikistan fix Central Asia’s water crisis?25 Jun 2026
  3. Episode 43: Has Islam ever posed a threat to the Uzbek state?18 Jun 2026
  4. Episode 42: Why Central Asia still needs akyns - the poets who speak truth to power11 Jun 2026
  5. Episode 41: Hashish and survival in rural Kyrgyzstan4 Jun 2026
  6. Episode 40: Abdulla Qodiriy's "Bygone Days" and the fight for intellectual property rights28 May 2026
  7. Episode 39: What cinema can tell us about Central Asia21 May 2026
  8. Iya’s lifelines: A Jewish journey to survival in Central Asia13 May 2026
  9. Episode 38: Inside Turan. The Persian legacy in Central Asia1 May 2026
  10. Episode 37: What has become of Russia's Wartime exiles in Central Asia?24 Apr 2026