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Reform-touting authorities show little stomach for due process.

Any success adapting this first group of children could represent a lifeline for the estimated 400 Kyrgyzstani women and children still languishing in northeast Syria.

So far the government is considering registration bids only from parties run by familiar faces.

Tokayev has OK'ed a commission charged with recovering money unlawfully spirited out of the country.

Activists are bewildered by how the government has chosen to revisit the events of 2010 in this way.

The new president cozies up to Russia. He also attempts to address food insecurity by slashing food imports. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Beishenaliyev says he has been set up by vindictive prosecutors.

The referendum has bolstered the standing of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

Around 96 percent of Kazakh crude exports passed through Russia last year.

Reliance on migrant remittances has left Kyrgyzstan especially vulnerable to the pandemic and Russia’s war.

Dushanbe regularly used to accuse Tehran of supporting militant activity, but no longer.

When Tajik activists get into trouble, their Western partners “stand by mutely.”

A sales agreement should be drawn up and signed by the end of the year.

The president has preventively denied any future responsibility for accidents that might happen at the mine.

Tashkent is seeking to boost domestic flour production at a delicate time, with the war in Ukraine garbling food supply chains.

Tajik militants fighting with Islamic State in Afghanistan are spotlighting the brutal, 30-year reign of Emomali Rahmon to attract new followers.

January’s unrest is on the government’s mind, but do authorities have the tools to respond?

A new report highlights gaps in understanding of how climate change will impact the region.

The moral development of young people is a recurring concern of President Sadyr Japarov.

Organizers admit that few people understand the proposed changes to the constitution, and yet also claim that most people back them.

Out-of-touch elites, poor planning, and some signs of progress in regional trade. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Religious mores, politics and the coronavirus have cast a shadow over one of the few Kyrgyz products China buys.

Rural Tajiks are less aware of climate change. The government must improve education to prepare for the inevitable hardships that will impact them most.

Bad weather and a Russian export ban have set Kyrgyzstan up for another lean year.

Will a railway connecting the two countries via Kyrgyzstan ever happen?