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A draft constitution is causing anger in the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan, whose rights have been diminished by the changes.

Out-of-touch elites, poor planning, and some signs of progress in regional trade. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

In our weekly briefing: Restrictions easing, COVID denialism persists, foreign suitors come visiting in hope of business, and the latest annual horse jamboree.

Kazakh officials know they cannot be seen siding with a Chinese company.

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

The demonstration, which city hall allowed, passed peacefully.

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

Employers are now effectively required to demand proof of vaccinations from their workers. But the country’s health care system is now being pushed to the limit.

Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing: Berdymukhamedov goes traveling and lectures the WHO, while YouTube bows to Turkmen censors and takes down Eurasianet’s channel.

All the defendants are strident government critics, but their dissidence was confined to online attacks and tiny street protests.

In our weekly briefing: doing business with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Plus, it’s reprimand season.

The government hopes to boost vaccination rates, but a new anti-vaccine campaign is on the rise.

The new rules come as the country is trying to stave off a third wave of the virus and vaccination numbers remain in the low single digits.

Bunin has also been banned from entering Uzbekistan.

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