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Mikhail An, center, in a screenshot from Brian Song’s new film Misha.

Uzbekistan: The Koryo Saram’s tragic Soviet soccer superstar

A new documentary on a Soviet soccer star also tells the story of Central Asia’s ethnic Korean community, which was deported en masse to the region by Stalin.
Chris Rickleton Dec 18, 2020
A coal-fired heating and power plant in Angren (Eurasianet)

Uzbekistan’s heating calamity revives the art of burning dung

The public is livid that the government has been so hapless in prepping for the heating season. The response from officials has been to dissemble or threaten those who try to report on the situation.
Dec 11, 2020
Chinese vaccine

Uzbekistan poised to start trials on Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

5,000 people are taking part in the trials.
Dec 10, 2020
Creators of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine claim it is 95 percent efficient in providing immunity. (Photo: Russian government website)

Kazakhstan to start Sputnik V vaccinations early next year

Trials for a domestically developed QazCovid-in vaccine are not expected to be completed until March.
Almaz Kumenov Dec 4, 2020
Tashkent bus passengers watch a solar eclipse

Uzbekistan: The red pilgrimage to Mecca

At the height of Stalin’s power, he let a handful of Soviet Muslims visit Mecca. Why?
Dec 4, 2020
AIMK head Asadjon Khodjayev. (Photo: AIMK website)

Uzbekistan: Pressure on media sparks international response

Officials were irked by coverage about haphazard preparations for the heating season.
Nov 30, 2020
A government graphic of President Mirziyoyev congratulating the public on the event of Uzbek Language Day.

Uzbekistan: Officials may be tested on knowledge of native language

Getting a proficiency certificate could be required from 2023.
Nov 16, 2020
pialki

Uzbekistan postpones first census because of coronavirus

The population has not been counted in over 30 years.
Nov 13, 2020
Andrei Kubatin. (Photo: Facebook)

Uzbekistan: Kubatin, rehabilitated Turkic studies scholar, dies with COVID-19

The scholar's release from prison marked an unusual development in Uzbekistan.
Nov 2, 2020
Kent book cover

Book Review | A blueprint for neutralizing Russian disinformation

The book dispels a widely held misperception in the West that Putin is an omnipotent puppet-master, pulling all the strings in Russian disinformation operations. The reality is not so exotic.
Justin Burke Nov 1, 2020
Yakunin in Kazakhstan

Kremlin-linked “propaganda factory” eyes Central Asia, China

The Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute is also targeting India.
Casey Michel Oct 29, 2020
Bukhara's Ark

Uzbekistan: The mixed legacy of Bukhara’s 1920 uprising

One hundred years after the Red Army established the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, residents are ambivalent about its meaning.
Oct 29, 2020
The Aral Sea photographed by a U.S. government satellite on August 21, 1964 (public domain)

Northern Aral's promise stunted by dam height, international disputes

Humans have rehabilitated a small part of the disappeared Aral Sea. For now.
Aliya Uteuova, images by Earthrise Media Oct 28, 2020
More welcome last year (Eurasianet archive)

Poll shows Uzbeks, like neighbors, growing leery of Chinese investments

Uzbekistan logs the biggest increase in ambivalence toward China.
David Trilling Oct 22, 2020
Medical experts insist human infection is unlikely. (Photo: Bernd Focken / Pixabay)

Kazakhstan: Avian flu kills nearly 1 million poultry

The die-off has caused a shortage of meat and eggs in markets.
Almaz Kumenov Oct 21, 2020

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