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Authorities say that Telegram channels are at the heart of an investigation into extortion, but have offered few details.

The problem is linked to the lack of systemic support for low-income families and the government’s refusal to ease hurdles to registering a non-profit.

This latest winter energy crisis is undermining public confidence in the administration of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Meteorologists say Tashkent has not seen such cold in 50 years.

It is so cold that Turkmenistan has suspending gas exports to Uzbekistan, Iran and even its most important customer, China. Our weekly briefing.

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For all the government's boasts of transparency, critics of the trial say rigorous scrutiny has been sorely lacking.

Temperatures in Kazakhstan are slipping to below -30 degrees Celsius.

Uzbekistan is the second-largest market for Indian pharmaceuticals in the former Soviet Union.

Making an example of this group looks like an attempt to put an indefinite end to Kyrgyzstan’s periodic cycle of extra-parliamentary regime changes.

The official investigation into bloody chaos this summer has yet to deliver. Even the names of the dead remain a secret.

A vaunted meeting to discuss shipping Turkmen gas to Turkey and Europe ended without a breakthrough. But Uzbekistan is buying. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The most prominent defendant had previously accused the judge of embezzlement.

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