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

Journalists from Tajikistan played vital roles for many foreign news agencies.

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.

That Central Asia's presidents seemed to enjoy themselves together was itself a breakthrough. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

China has delivered 300,000 doses of vaccine, but will the public want them?

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

The government appears to be taking active measures to cover up the new outbreak.

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.

The president's family has a monopoly on tickets, cashing in on a profound desperation.

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.

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.