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The initiative strives to get more women in the room when water-management decisions are made.

To many Uzbeks, China is not only an industrial behemoth with neocolonial intentions. It is also a source of scarce jobs.

Kazakh traders have been helping fill Russian demand for high-tech consumer goods and other items hard to obtain under Western sanctions.

By one count, at least 23 out of 29 of the single-mandate district seats have been won by Amanat.

Election choreography, backwards reasoning, and the government tries to justify wasting billions on empty megaresorts. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The legislature will see many new faces, but there is little evidence a dramatic reset is looming.

Only one in four voters in Almaty, the country's largest city, cast their ballot.

No progress appears to have been made pursuing prosecutions of law enforcement personnel.

Kyrgyz authorities do not want pollsters or journalists to probe public opinion about the war.

Tashkent is eager not to be seen as endorsing anti-war positions.

Children's rights experts say a better approach would be to invest in social workers.

While the country's authoritarian rulers are utterly indifferent to political freedoms, how the investment regime is perceived is another matter. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Plus: The geopolitical rivalry over Central Asia heats back up.

Media have been warned against giving anti-war Russians a platform.

Lawmakers say that 65 percent of the current constitution has been rewritten.

Bazaars, where most rural Kyrgyz people meet their basic needs, are by and large an impenetrable black box for the taxman.

Mirziyoyev has himself said he wants a free press, although his remarks are greeted coolly by skeptics.

Pipelines to Russia carried 94 percent of Kazakh oil exports last year.

For the first time that many people can remember, hardline government critics are joining the race. Or trying to, at least.

Farmland and pastures across Central Asia are far less productive after decades of monocropping.

Israel is imminently poised to open a permanent mission in Ashgabat, 20 kilometers from the Iranian border. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

News reported last week about Uzbekistan preparing to accommodate Russian gas in its pipelines may not have been true, despite officials initially stating otherwise.

Fully 39 people are on trial. Prosecutors are asking for prison sentences of up to 12 years.

Seventy percent of girls aged 11 to 14 have been vaccinated against Human Papillomavirus.

Deliveries had reportedly been expected to start March 1, but that deadline has come and gone.