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Central Asia in Focus: Elections in Kazakhstan

Russian Pressuring Turkmenistan on Pipeline, sexual violence in Central Asia, death toll in Karakalpakstan, and more.

A large team of rescue workers from Kazakhstan and Turkey pull out Hatice Akar from a collapsed building 180 hours after the earthquake in Kahramanmaras, southern Turkey.

Central Asia In Focus: Central Asia Feels The Effects Of Turkey’s Earthquakes

Earthquakes, Kyrgyzstan’s Kempirabad case, RIP Oleg Panfilov, how Russia and Political insiders cash in on Uzbekistan’s gas sector, and more.

A crowded courtroom in Bukhara. Around a dozen people sit in a glass cage at the back of the courtroom, guarded by policemen.

Central Asia In Focus: Karakalpak Trials

Karakalpak trials, Uzbekistan halts railway traffic to Afghanistan, independent media deterioration in Kyrgyzstan, and more.

Nigora Muhiddinova wipes her face with a handkerchief.

Central Asia in Focus: Russia’s Central Asian Casualties of War

Central Asians dying in Russia’s war, Kyrgyzstan’s judicial system problems, transportation corridor opens between India and Central Asia, and more.

RFE/RL journalist Toktosun Shambetov reports for Azattyk from Bishkek.

Central Asia in Focus: Attacks on RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service

Attacks on RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service, Kazakhstan oil exports, human rights in Turkmenistan, Kyrgyz-Tajik ties, elections in Turkmenistan, and more.

Construction of the Kambar-Ata 1 hydro power plant on June 8, 2022, taking place between giant, green mountains. The river winding between them runs muddy and brown.

Central Asia in Focus: Hydropower Cooperation

Former Uzbek President Islam Karimov once warned that large-scale hydropower projects that threatened the flow of water to downstream countries, such as Uzbekistan, could spark a war in Central Asia.

Former President Nursultan Nazarbayev walks out of a voting booth during presidential elections in Astana.

Central Asia in Focus: Potential Changes Kazakhstan’s Constitution

For nearly 28 years, Nursultan Nazarbaev ruled as president of independent Kazakhstan.

Activist Perizat Suranova and her mother speak between prison cell bars.

Central Asia in Focus: Starving For Justice in Kyrgyzstan

Starving for Justice in Kyrgyzstan, Chasing the Messenger in Uzbekistan, a conversation with Mary Lawlor, the fate of RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service Azattyk.

Tajik journalists Ulfatkhonim (R) Mamadshoeva and Khushruz Jumaev (L).

Central Asia in Focus: Tajik Courts Dispense Injustice

Tajik courts dispense injustice, Russia tries to recruit Central Asian migrant laborers, When will Uzbekistan’s President go to Kyrgyzstan?

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