Eurasia Rewired: Power, Pipelines and the Return of Empire
The map is changing beneath the steel. Astana, April 2026 Eurasia is being rewired not by ideology alone, but by infrastructure. The old imperial struggle…
Aigerim Beketova
Aigerim Beketova, Central Asia correspondent at Phoenix24. Specialist in Eurasian infrastructure diplomacy, energy geopolitics, and digital Islam in the steppes.
Central Asia Is No Longer Waiting at the Edge of History
Power now travels through quieter architectures. Almaty, March 2026 Central Asia is still described too often as a corridor, a hinge, a buffer between more…
Between Moscow, Beijing and Ankara: How Eurasia Is Being Rewritten
Power in post-Soviet Eurasia no longer moves through ideology. It moves through pipelines, railways, language and faith. Astana, January 2026. For three decades after the…
Silicon Road: How China and Turkey Are Rewriting Central Asia’s Digital Map
The new Great Game is no longer fought over oil or gas, but over data, cables and clouds. Astana, October 2025. Across the steppes of Central…
Pipelines and Prayers: How Energy and Religion Shape the New Eurasian Order
Astana, September 2025. The heart of Eurasia is once again the chessboard of global power. Pipelines and mosques, railways and prayers, uranium and digital authoritarianism—these…
Moscow No Longer Lives Here: The Kremlin’s Silence in Central Asia
Astana, August 2025 — Absence doesn’t always make noise. Sometimes it takes the form of roads no longer built with rubles, of Russian consulates reduced to…