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The city of Atyrau covered with acrid smoke from above.

Central Asia in Focus: Poisonous Air in Kazakhstan

Call for sanctions on Tajik Officials, criminalizing domestic violence in Uzbekistan, UN to visit Tajikistan, Kazakh oil workers detained, and more.

Ihar Losik poses against a branded RFE/RL background

Journalists in Trouble: Reports Suggest RFE/RL Journalist’s Condition in Belarusian Prison is Deteriorating

Ihar Losik suffers injuries in prison; Kyrgyz courts dismiss RFE/RL lawsuits challenging censorship; and more

Saida Mirziyaeva

Central Asia in Focus: The Rape Case Shocking Uzbekistan

Kazakh labor strikes, Taliban’s relationship with Central Asian countries, Kyrgyz court extends ban on meetings, and more.

RFE/RL President and CEO Jamie Fly meets with officials in Ukraine and Moldova.

RFE/RL President and CEO Jamie Fly Visits Ukraine, Moldova as RFE/RL Expands Efforts to Counter Russian Disinformation

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President and CEO Jamie Fly visited Moldova and Ukraine for meetings with senior officials, civil society groups, and the company’s journalists.

Heads of ex-Soviet nations tour the State Russian Museum with Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.

Central Asia in Focus: Russian Ties

Central Asian diplomacy with Russia and the West, effects of Afghan water project, Serdar Berdymukhammedov’s presidency, a new Kazakhstan?, and more.

An image of Latvian President Egils Levits speaking at RFE/RL's Riga Launch

RFE/RL Launches “Current Time Baltics” to Counter Kremlin Propaganda

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) launched “Current Time Baltics” on its Russian-language television and digital network Current Time.

Two men attend to an injured man lying on the ground.

Central Asia in Focus: Bombings South of Uzbekistan

An Act of Defiance in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan’s Mazhilis elections, UNHCHR Chief Visiting Central Asia, and more.

The President of Uzbekistan (R) shakes US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's hand (L) in Tashkent.

Central Asia in Focus: Blinken Visits Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Blinken Visits Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Kyrgyz hydropower, gender-based violence in Central Asia, inequality in the workplace, and more.

A graphic with a bard wire background. The words "Journalists in Trouble" written on a banner. Several protestors asking for the journalists' release are pictured in stylized artistic form on the bottom of the graphic.

Journalists in Trouble: RFE/RL Challenges Kyrgyz Government Crackdown

Kyrgyz government continues crackdown on RFE/RL; Taliban blocks Radio Azadi websites; Iran sanctions RFE/RL President; and more.

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