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Abdullo Shamsiddin’s supporters have said his apparent crime was to “like” a post on social media.

The petitions to the president arrive thick and fast. Children are often enlisted for maximum effect.

Fully 40 percent of Kazakh-Chinese trade is accounted for by dealings with Xinjiang.

The government is trying to lure investors as it moves to revitalize a sluggish privatization drive.

Elections that don’t matter, Russia sows paranoia, and trouble upstream for Turkmen farmers: Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Following the new allegations, the channel has been hounding a woman who won a harassment case against its founder in 2018.

The embassy in Dushanbe, which is still run by the anti-Taliban opposition, is said to be considering its position.

Abirov's colleagues in parliament rallied to his support and were not eager to expel him.

Russian officials and propagandists had several reactions to the recent crisis in Georgia: gloating, echoing the Georgian government's rhetoric, and casually threatening to bomb Tbilisi into the ground.

The canal across northern Afghanistan will divert water from the dying Amu Darya river.

Before her visit, the top diplomat spoke about "attempts to divert the country from its pro-European course."

Every unhappy country is unhappy in its own way.

The ruling party says Western-funded NGOs aided what it called Russia-sponsored protests against the construction of a hydropower plant.

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.