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

Officials have tried to ignore the situation for years, but appear to have been spurred into action by the president.

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

The behind-closed-doors trial has revealed nothing about the specific actions the former security services chief is said to have undertaken.

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.

Kudebayev got out of the country by crossing into neighboring Kyrgyzstan and then flying to Turkey.

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

The way the filmmakers and authorities are working so closely has given rise to questions about who exactly is backing this movie, and why.

Farmers complain that rebounding populations are encroaching on their pastures.

Activists say prosecutors need to do more to prove the government is serious about stamping out police abuse.

Glaciers are disappearing around the world. Here’s how it happens in Central Asia.

The government narrative is vague and full of holes.

Can safety protocols be maintained in a poor country like Kyrgyzstan, where corruption is rampant?

Astana accepts that it cannot force China to use less water upstream. But the BRI may help it reduce its own water waste, a new paper argues.

A joint venture with China has edged Kazatomprom, the world’s largest producer of uranium, into the nuclear fuel production cycle.