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Salaries were always horribly low but living costs have soared since the pandemic began.

Middle-class Afghans with the means to navigate Tajikistan’s bureaucracy see the country as a springboard to the West.

China has delivered 300,000 doses of vaccine, but will the public want them?

Vaccine hesitancy in Uzbekistan is high, bred by social media conspiracies that seem credible in a country without accountable authorities.

The government appears to be taking active measures to cover up the new outbreak.

Our Kazakhstan correspondent describes the waiting, the bureaucracy, and the anticlimax of getting his Sputnik V jab in Almaty.

The group's alleged leader was an Egyptian national teaching Arabic at a local state-run university.

Although Turkmenistan is rarely mentioned as a prospective member of the Moscow-led EAEU trading bloc, that notion is quite obviously on the Kremlin’s mind. Our weekly briefing.

What makes Rahmon’s disappearance all very odd is that he is a particular devotee of the Nowruz spring equinox feast.

Hopes are being pinned on the Sino-Uzbek vaccine ZF-UZ-VAC 2001.

Authorities have not made any attempt to explain the abnormally high number of deaths last year.

Uzbekistan, Tajikistan are taking triumphalist stances on coronavirus.