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

The bird’s cultural significance may have aided its rapid dispersal.

Around 3,000 items of unique cultural value may have been stolen from 14 museums.

Changing tastes threaten askiya, a centuries-old Uzbek tradition that prizes wit, improvisation, and mastery of language.

A charismatic, handicapped singer has gone viral, triggering appearances with Russian superstars and a member of the ruling family.

Tashkent is regretting its early embrace of the Chinese app.

Eldor Shomurodov’s success making it into one of Europe’s most important national football leagues has generated a fresh flurry of ambition among young Uzbek players.

But Russians are more ambivalent about having a Tajik-born singer represent them at the song contest.

Manizha Sangin emigrated to Russia with her family at age three, during the Tajik civil war.

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.

Getting a proficiency certificate could be required from 2023.

Today celebrated for blending classical music with Turkish folk tunes, Anjelika Akbar’s education was strictly Soviet, intolerant to non-classical styles.

Developers last week ordered the troupe to vacate the premises by April.

Ferghana Valley silk weavers worry that industrial production could gradually extinguish their artisanal approach.

A huge number of people are complaining that the shows are immoral.