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5,000 people are taking part in the trials.

Medics say they are actively discouraged from seeking the compensation.

Trials for a domestically developed QazCovid-in vaccine are not expected to be completed until March.

The die-off has caused a shortage of meat and eggs in markets.

Officials say Uzbekistan plans to produce its own vaccine when tests are done.

Batken has already reimposed restrictions.

Some of the purported cures spreading on social media are dangerous.

Independent Ukraine has held only one census, almost 20 years ago.

Eurasianet’s Kyrgyzstan-based photojournalist Danil Usmanov has for weeks been watching his country’s unfolding coronavirus crisis. In this essay, he describes some of his observations.

The activist’s death in prison reflects poorly on the substantial investments that the international community has made into overhauling Kyrgyzstan’s notoriously selective and corrupt justice system.

The footage has generated much online outrage.

On top of the exhausting work, stresses are compounded by having to reject heartbreaking requests.

Doctors in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are growing angry at what they see as little more than a face-saving, statistical trick.

It is clear from a welter of circumstantial evidence that official death figures are massive undercounts.

Critics see only oppressive censorship in the new legislation.