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In this week’s edition: Karakalpak lawyer and rights activist Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov is allegedly being tortured in an Uzbek prison, Kazakhstan looks to become a major source of critical minerals, and…

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) called the ruling by a Russian court “a mockery of justice.”

Nearly three years have passed since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, to the dismay of much of the world.

In this week’s edition: Kazakh and Kyrgyz authorities detain people suspected of having ties to terrorist groups, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention calls on Tajik authorities to…

Two years have passed since violence erupted in western Uzbekistan’s Karakalpakstan Sovereign Republic.

Timothy Garton Ash, reviewing several books on 1989 for the New York Review of Books, wrote that “An erroneous report on Radio Free Europe (RFE) that a student called Martin…

In this week’s edition: Russia continues to send Central Asians to fight in its full-scale war on Ukraine, the Kazakh government faces criticism over its new media law, and more.

The threat of terrorism is never far from the minds of officials in Central Asia, who know that their region shares a 2,000-kilometer border with Afghanistan.

Russian court extends Alsu Kurmasheva’s detention; Georgia’s “foreign agent” bill becomes law; ECHR rules in favor of RFE/RL; and more.