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One explanation for the continued dominance of Russian lies in Kazakhstan’s rural-urban divide.

Labor migrants are attempting to leave Russia as their jobs have been hit by sanctions. But they can’t cross the border into Azerbaijan, which has remained closed since the beginning of the pandemic.

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

The project is intended to partially bridge the language knowledge gap with Russian.

Central Asia’s largest nations are using unique coronavirus vaccines that haven’t been carefully studied. Do they have a choice?

A few months ago, the thought of taking a Chinese COVID vaccine was unthinkable to Georgians. Now it’s the norm.

Vaccine hesitancy in Uzbekistan is high, bred by social media conspiracies that seem credible in a country without accountable authorities.

But Russians are more ambivalent about having a Tajik-born singer represent them at the song contest.

Our Kazakhstan correspondent describes the waiting, the bureaucracy, and the anticlimax of getting his Sputnik V jab in Almaty.

Although Turkmenistan is rarely mentioned as a prospective member of the Moscow-led EAEU trading bloc, that notion is quite obviously on the Kremlin’s mind. Our weekly briefing.

Yet another fashionable slogan means nothing when it’s needed most.

The number of flights is still highly limited for the time being, however.

Manizha Sangin emigrated to Russia with her family at age three, during the Tajik civil war.

Protesting artists chose the visit of their better-paid Russian colleagues to make their point.

It can take four days to get to the front of the line at this bitterly cold pass almost two miles high.