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Central Asia in Focus: July 19, 2022

Tajik authorities are orchestrating the biggest crackdown the country has seen since 2015.

Deputy of the Jogorku Kenesh Natalya Nikitenko sits at a desk.

Central Asia in Focus: July 12, 2022

At the start of July, civic activists and representatives of women’s organizations in Kyrgyzstan sent a letter to the country’s president.

A large crowd waves flags and stands in the street for a demonstration in Karakalpakstan.

Central Asia in Focus: July 6, 2022

Protests over proposed constitutional amendments in Uzbekistan’s autonomous Karakalpakstan Republic left 18 people dead and 243 injured on July 1.

Tajikistan – President Emomali Rakhmon (L) and Said Abdullo Nuri (R), leader of the opposition, sign the Tajik Peace Accord on June 27, 1997.

Central Asia in Focus: June 28, 2022

Tajikistan just marked 25 years since the end of the civil war.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attend a plenary session at the 2022 St Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Central Asia in Focus: June 21, 2022

Back in February, Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev said Kazakhstan and Russia were neighbors from God.

Militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) pose for photo in the northern Kunduz Province.

Central Asia in Focus: June 14, 2022

Tashkent police said on June 8 that some 250 members of extremist groups had been identified in Uzbekistan since the start of 2022.

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.

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.

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