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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
Laborers in Tajikistan’s northern Sughd Province

Tajikistan: Even Russia feels pain as pandemic wreaks havoc on migration lifeline

Food prices have jumped this year and there are few jobs, but out-of-work migrants can’t get to where they are desperately needed.
Dec 17, 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
No crowds, except when he comes out. (state media)

Turkmenistan: The dammed united

Travel bans, dams and Russian fans. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Nov 24, 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
(Artem Podrez/Pexels)

Uzbekistan to begin Chinese vaccine trial

5,000 volunteers have been mobilized for the phase-three trial.
Nov 9, 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
Labeled with COVID-19. (Photo: Russian Health Ministry)

Uzbekistan to take part in COVID-19 vaccine trials

Officials say Uzbekistan plans to produce its own vaccine when tests are done.
Sep 30, 2020
Exams in time of COVID-19 (Photo: Eurasianet)

Uzbekistan: COVID-19 adds more pain to university exam nightmare

Only one in 10 university applicants is sure of a place.
Sep 2, 2020
Mokhirova's Pokiza Insonlar group is named for municipal workers like garbage collectors, street sweepers and city parks gardeners, who work every day, in extremes of weather, always for little pay. (photo: David Trilling)

Uzbekistan: Charities resist government monopolization of social protection

Critics of the government’s charities ban suspect there is politics at play, not just a desire to stem potential fraud.
Aug 26, 2020
USAID/EU aid to Abkhazia

Abkhazia calls for volunteers to help with COVID outbreak

Many in the territory blame the rising numbers of coronavirus cases on the authorities’ decision to open up to Russian tourists.
Joshua Kucera Aug 19, 2020
Abkhazia booth

Russian tourists flood into newly reopened Abkhazia

The territory's public health officials have warned against opening up to tourism, and the arrival of tourists has coincided with a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.
Joshua Kucera Aug 11, 2020
Keeping tabs: Officials say fraud was committed by sanitary-epidemiological service personnel. (Photo: Government website)

Uzbekistan: Civil society hindered in ability to contain COVID-19 corruption

The chair of the Senate says $171,000 have gone missing.
Aug 10, 2020
Eurasian germ circle (Kyrgyz government handout)

Here’s looking at EAEU #3: Whining and dining

There is no setback in the EAEU, it would appear, that cannot be fixed with a roadmap.
Here’s looking at EAEU Aug 6, 2020

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