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Critics worry, though, that the surge in interest for this period is an attempt by Uzbekistan's ruling authorities to legitimize themselves.

Pro-war Russian singers get the door shut in their face, Kyrgyz political infighting, and methane emissions in Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan is at last willing to discuss its full-blown water crisis. Our weekly briefing.

Kyrgyzstan’s indigenous horses, adapted to the country’s high-mountain terrain, are at risk of extinction.

In the years before independence, Stepnogorsk had become a key node in Moscow’s biological weapons program and uranium industry. Now it is one of many Kazakh provincial towns framed by its Soviet legacy.

Uzbekistan is working to introduce penalties for wasting water.

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

Farmland and pastures across Central Asia are far less productive after decades of monocropping.

Our chief Caucasus correspondent reflects on the life and radically changing times of his father, who passed away last month.

Organizers say the move to Bukhara is not political, but Tashkent is keeping a close eye on Karakalpakstan after unrest last summer.

The number of floods has been increasing with every passing year.

Bishkek is now suffering with some of the world’s worst air pollution.

The surviving popularity of the komuz as a living instrument, rather than a museum artifact, and the flourishing tradition of Kyrgyz folk music is in no small way thanks to Malik Alikeyev, who died on January 17.

Chinese buses have survived corruption scandals to become the most obvious alternative to ubiquitous but problematic minibuses.

Botoyarova wore a cape during the swimsuit category that bore the stylized image of a woman being subjected to abuse.