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AFGHANISTAN -- An employee of an Afghan trainline walking along a rail track in the center of the Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Dustlik (Friendship) Bridge in Hairatan in northern Balkh Province.

Central Asia in Focus: June 7, 2022

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

RFE/RL President Jamie Fly speaks fron a podium in Central Asia

RFE/RL President Jamie Fly Visits Central Asia 

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.

Around a dozen bodies lie wrapped in bags along the ground surrounded by crowd.

Central Asia in Focus: May 31, 2022

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

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyaev.

Central Asia in Focus: May 24, 2022

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

Margaret Hoover (L) and Kristin Lord (R)

Margaret Hoover, Kristin Lord Join RFE/RL’s Board of Directors

RFE/RL welcomes journalist and commentator Margaret Hoover and nonprofit executive Kristin Lord as new Board Members, effective April 26, 2022.

A man stands in a market observing the round, flat breads typical of Tajikistan.

Central Asia in Focus: May 17, 2022

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.

Mullorajab Yusufi and Barot Yusufi speak about how they were beaten following an interview.

RFE/RL Journalists Beaten In Tajikistan

In an escalation of harassment of journalists in Tajikistan, four RFE/RL journalists were beaten, threatened, and had their electronic equipment seized after conducting an interview.

Dr. Iain Elliot in Moscow - August 20th, 1991

Report from Moscow: An Eyewitness View of Soviet Putsch

This story was originally published in the August/September 1991 issue of “Shortwaves,” an RFE/RL internal publication. What follows is an eyewitness account of the failed attempt by Soviet hardliners in…

Kazakh interim President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (L) and former President Nursultan Nazarbayev (R) attend the Astana Economic Forum in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

Central Asia in Focus: May 10, 2022

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

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