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Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan opposed discussion of Xinjiang at the UN Human Rights Council.

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

Researchers used a jointly manufactured Chinese-Uzbek vaccine in their experiments.

Tashkent’s vaccination campaign is getting a shot in the arm.

The Uzbek blogger who first raised these concerns was smeared, beaten, and now faces trial.

That sets them apart from Afghanistan’s other post-Soviet neighbor, Tajikistan.

A severe food shortage crisis is looming in Afghanistan this winter.

Central Asia’s largest nations are using unique coronavirus vaccines that haven’t been carefully studied. Do they have a choice?

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

That Central Asia's presidents seemed to enjoy themselves together was itself a breakthrough. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Cases are rising rapidly and vaccines – for those who want them – are hard to find.

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

The health minister then drank the concoction at a press conference.

The region appears wholly unprepared for the latest rise in cases.

It can take four days to get to the front of the line at this bitterly cold pass almost two miles high.