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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.
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.
Kazakhstan is conducting a national referendum on changes to the constitution on June 5.
When Turkmenistan announced there would be a presidential election, everyone knew President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov’s son Serdar would win.
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