Kyrgyzstan’s president has never made a secret of his disdain for independent nongovernmental organizations. “The state and civil society should cooperate and...
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Prosecutors in Kyrgyzstan have asked parliament for a government-critical lawmaker to be stripped of immunity from prosecution over alleged incitement to...
As soon as Western countries began deploying sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, many Russians turned to Kazakhstan for relief. ...
The appeal trial of a group of people imprisoned over their involvement in last summer’s protests in Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic of Uzbekistan, is...
Alisher Khamidov opens this edition of our EurasiaChat podcast by dwelling on how military conscript recruiters in Tajikistan resort to extreme lengths to hit...
Following months of embarrassing stories in the international press documenting the scale of its methane emissions, Turkmenistan has consented to accept...
Uzbekistan’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, a Karakalpak lawyer and activist, against a 16-year prison term on charges of...
The security services in Kyrgyzstan have detained around 30 people led by the head of an obscure political party on suspicion of plotting to...
The worsening state of the Russian economy and sustained abuse from law enforcement there is pushing ever more expatriate laborers from Tajikistan to seek out...
Kyrgyzstan’s capital is parched. Since the start of this month, residents of several neighborhoods of Bishkek have had their tap water severely rationed...
