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Tashkent has also announced it will not return Afghan aircraft flown by pilots fleeing the Taliban last summer.

The Taliban has assured the region’s governments that it has no designs on them, but can it keep more hostile groups in check?

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

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

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.

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

Dushanbe is desperate to resume flights to Russian cities.

Uzbekistan, Tajikistan are taking triumphalist stances on coronavirus.

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.

5,000 people are taking part in the trials.

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

Travel bans, dams and Russian fans. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

This week in our Turkmenistan bulletin: Ashgabat and Moscow suddenly ratify an aged security agreement. Plus budgets, boasts and bribes.

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

Many in the territory blame the rising numbers of coronavirus cases on the authorities’ decision to open up to Russian tourists.