Newsletter
Central Asia in Focus: Blinken Visits Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Blinken Visits Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Kyrgyz hydropower, gender-based violence in Central Asia, inequality in the workplace, and more.
Journalists in Trouble: RFE/RL Challenges Kyrgyz Government Crackdown
Kyrgyz government continues crackdown on RFE/RL; Taliban blocks Radio Azadi websites; Iran sanctions RFE/RL President; and more.
Central Asia in Focus: Almaty Authorities Reject Women’s Day March
Almaty Authorities Reject Women’s Day March, Tajik Authorities Ban Home Prayer Meetings for Ismaili Muslims, Central Asian-Russian relations one year on from war in Ukraine, and more.
Central Asia in Focus: Elections in Kazakhstan
Russian Pressuring Turkmenistan on Pipeline, sexual violence in Central Asia, death toll in Karakalpakstan, and more.
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.
Central Asia In Focus: Karakalpak Trials
Karakalpak trials, Uzbekistan halts railway traffic to Afghanistan, independent media deterioration in Kyrgyzstan, and more.
Journalists in Trouble: Kyrgyz Government Moves to Shutter RFE/RL
Kyrgyz government moves to shut down RFE/RL; Radio Azadi defies Taliban restrictions; Darya Losik is sentenced; and more.
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.
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.
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.