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Tajik authorities are orchestrating the biggest crackdown the country has seen since 2015.
At the start of July, civic activists and representatives of women’s organizations in Kyrgyzstan sent a letter to the country’s president.
Protests over proposed constitutional amendments in Uzbekistan’s autonomous Karakalpakstan Republic left 18 people dead and 243 injured on July 1.
Tajikistan just marked 25 years since the end of the civil war.
Back in February, Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev said Kazakhstan and Russia were neighbors from God.
Tashkent police said on June 8 that some 250 members of extremist groups had been identified in Uzbekistan since the start of 2022.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon was in Iran at the end of May and Uzbekistan at the start of June.
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.
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