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Central Asia in Focus: September 20, 2022
For a second straight year war broke out along the Kyrgyz-Tajik border on September 16.
Central Asia in Focus: September 13, 2022
On April 5, 2021, Aizada Kanatbekova was kidnapped by six men in the middle of the day in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek.
Central Asia in Focus: September 7, 2022
Kazakhstan has been having problems lately shipping its goods through Russia to Europe, so Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev ordered his government to find alternatives.
Central Asia in Focus: August 30, 2022
Cheers for Mayor Kanbolot Tutuev of Naryn, a city in northeastern Kyrgyzstan, for providing an incentive for teachers.
Central Asia in Focus: August 23, 2022
Elite troops from Kyrgyzstan’s security service detained Zhurat Abdullaev, the co-owner of Umut and Co.
Central Asia in Focus: August 16, 2022
On August 15, 2021, the Taliban seized Kabul and returned to power in Afghanistan.
Central Asia in Focus: August 9, 2022
Tajik and Uzbek soldiers started military exercises at Uzbekistan’s Termez training grounds on August 4, leaving me with a lot to unpack.
Central Asia in Focus: August 2, 2022
The Tajik government’s campaign against the Pamiri people of the eastern Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) continues unabated.
Journalists in Trouble: July 2022
Consumers of RFE/RL content in Belarus sentenced; Media situation in Tajikistan rapidly declines; and more.
Central Asia in Focus: July 19, 2022
Tajik authorities are orchestrating the biggest crackdown the country has seen since 2015.