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

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

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.

Uzbekistan is working to introduce penalties for wasting water.

The canal across northern Afghanistan will divert water from the dying Amu Darya river.

Bishkek is now suffering with some of the world’s worst air pollution.

Chinese buses have survived corruption scandals to become the most obvious alternative to ubiquitous but problematic minibuses.

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

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

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

Russia is proposing a major reconfiguration of the Central Asian gas market. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The steel giant is on the hook for a multi-million dollar fine as officials ramp up grumbling about the company.

Toxic chemicals stored at a plant that has now become a crypto mining operation threaten the wider region.

Activists and state scientists say that environmental legislation is being trampled, not for the first time.

For all its billions spent, China still controls only a small share of Kazakh oil output.