Eurasianet

The election did not feel very competitive in the president's hometown.

Thousands of election posters and billboards have cropped up across Kyrgyzstan ahead of the October 4 vote for parliament. Photographer Alimjan Jorobaev documents the curious dissonance between electioneering optimism and real life.

A group of Azerbaijani refugees and IDPs welcomed an Italian photographer to document their lives inside an abandoned cinema.

Eurasianet’s Kyrgyzstan-based photojournalist Danil Usmanov has for weeks been watching his country’s unfolding coronavirus crisis. In this essay, he describes some of his observations.

On top of the exhausting work, stresses are compounded by having to reject heartbreaking requests.

Most foreign leaders stayed away, but Putin’s Central Asian crew is a dependable lot.

Proud Bukharans want to cherish their history, but not at the expense of foregoing the future.

Many subjects are exotic props in a global class war. But the hard edge has dulled over the decades.

Bratva may be the only Russian-speaking motorcycle club in the United States. But its members have lived the classic American immigrant experience.

Uprooted by the Soviets, they returned to their farms after the collapse. Now climate change is driving them back to the city.

The project aims to both combat desertification and provide a livelihood for war refugees.

The silk economy buttresses the pensions of many housewives in rural Uzbekistan.

In the Georgian steppe, the work is hard and living conditions basic. But shepherding forges strong bonds among this small band of men.

Come and see Central Asia’s most remote region.

His reports to the tsar make a fascinating historical record.

The German settlers arrived in Azerbaijan 200 years ago this month.

The dead president’s long shadow is fading. But he’s still Instagramable.

The mass incarceration of Muslims in China is increasingly a Kazakhstan story.

Continue the journey around Armenia through an American photographer's lens.

Unusual access decades ago initiated a lifelong passion for one Boston photographer.

Many homes that Turkmenistan’s leader demolished as part of a beautification campaign have not been replaced.

Across Armenia, libraries often operate without light, heat, functioning toilets or even modern books.

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky’s first trip to Central Asia in 1907 was a bust – except for the photographs he made.

The audience was enthusiastic about the unusual pairing.

The first woman to lead a Central Asian country discussed China, her successors’ rivalry, and regrets from her time in office.