Eurasianet

Catch up on the biggest events we covered this year.

Amid pressures from climate change, hydropower dams are further disrupting cross-border water supplies. Part two in a series.

Moscow is working to stop the West engaging in security dialogue with Central Asian states.

Water disputes helped escalate the conflict into all-out war. Left unaddressed, they pose the same risk again. The first in a three-part series.

The embassy says it refuses to give back the cash.

The end of the harvest is a time for ritual partying in southern Kyrgyzstan. The festivities can last for days.

Changing tastes threaten askiya, a centuries-old Uzbek tradition that prizes wit, improvisation, and mastery of language.

Last year Baku took the surprising step of announcing the prosecutions of four soldiers for crimes against Armenians. But there is no word on what happened since – and no reciprocation from Armenia, either.

A charismatic, handicapped singer has gone viral, triggering appearances with Russian superstars and a member of the ruling family.

State TV has smeared the victim of a police shooting as a hotheaded vigilante.

The Armenian government has come under fire for appearing to discredit as “deserters” the dozens of soldiers still in captivity.

Efforts to stop border trade are causing ethnic Kyrgyz to abandon a remote southern region.

The Islamic State in Afghanistan is using the Taliban’s cozy relations with Uzbekistan as propaganda fodder.

Tashkent is regretting its early embrace of the Chinese app.

The International Court of Justice declined, however, to order more concrete measures related to Armenian prisoners and maps of land mines in Azerbaijan.