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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.
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.
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.
Central Asia in Focus: June 28, 2022
Tajikistan just marked 25 years since the end of the civil war.
Central Asia in Focus: June 21, 2022
Back in February, Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev said Kazakhstan and Russia were neighbors from God.
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.
Journalists in Trouble: June 2022
RFE/RL journalists beaten and threatened in Tajikistan; Azerbaijani journalist threatened at knifepoint; Pulitzer Prize board honors Ukrainian journalists; and more.
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.
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.