The Kazakh-Uzbek 'Tandem': Good For Central Asia, Not So Good For Karakalpak Activists

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s two most-populous countries, have a lot to talk about these days, from security cooperation to deeper integration on trade and transit. That could be good for Central Asia, which has often proved divisible by outside powers. But it might be making life harder for Kazakhstan-based activists from Uzbekistan’s autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan who face arrest and extradition nearly two years after unrest that in the troubled region.