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RFE/RL journalists beaten and threatened in Tajikistan; Azerbaijani journalist threatened at knifepoint; Pulitzer Prize board honors Ukrainian journalists; and more.

Andrey Kuznechyk, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Belarus Service, was sentenced on June 8 to six years in a maximum-security prison.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) correspondents the Order of Merit Third Class.

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.

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