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Central Asia in Focus: August 23, 2022

Elite troops from Kyrgyzstan’s security service detained Zhurat Abdullaev, the co-owner of Umut and Co.

Central Asia in Focus: August 16, 2022

On August 15, 2021, the Taliban seized Kabul and returned to power in Afghanistan.

Central Asia in Focus: August 9, 2022

Tajik and Uzbek soldiers started military exercises at Uzbekistan’s Termez training grounds on August 4, leaving me with a lot to unpack.

Central Asia in Focus: August 2, 2022

The Tajik government’s campaign against the Pamiri people of the eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) continues unabated.

Journalists in Trouble: July 2022

Consumers of RFE/RL content in Belarus sentenced; Media situation in Tajikistan rapidly declines; and more.

Central Asia in Focus: July 19, 2022

Tajik authorities are orchestrating the biggest crackdown the country has seen since 2015.

Central Asia in Focus: July 12, 2022

At the start of July, civic activists and representatives of women’s organizations in Kyrgyzstan sent a letter to the country’s president.

Central Asia in Focus: July 6, 2022

Protests over proposed constitutional amendments in Uzbekistan’s autonomous Karakalpakstan Republic left 18 people dead and 243 injured on July 1.

Central Asia in Focus: June 28, 2022

Tajikistan just marked 25 years since the end of the civil war.

Central Asia in Focus: June 21, 2022

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