Kazakhstan

Back in February, Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev said Kazakhstan and Russia were neighbors from God.

Tashkent police said on June 8 that some 250 members of extremist groups had been identified in Uzbekistan since the start of 2022.

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon was in Iran at the end of May and Uzbekistan at the start of June.

During visits to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan this week, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President & CEO Jamie Fly met with top government officials, human rights activists, and independent journalists.

Tajik authorities sealed off the eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) and cut communications to the region when unrest broke out on May 16.

The biggest crisis in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) of eastern Tajikistan since the 1992-1997 Tajik civil war erupted on May 16.

I’m trying to remember if I ever ate a meal in Central Asia without bread at the table and I cannot think of that happening even once.

Kazakhstan is conducting a national referendum on changes to the constitution on June 5.

RFE/RL Kazakh Service managing editor Mukhtar Senggirbey discusses the high cost paid by Kazakh residents for participating in the nationwide fuel-price protests in early January 2022.

RFE/RL Kazakh Service Managing Editor Mukhtar Senggirbey describes the increasingly dire situation facing independent media and civil society in Kazakhstan.