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Almaty mayor protest

Kazakhstan: Almaty protest calling for mayoral elections draws small crowd

The demonstration, which city hall allowed, passed peacefully.
Joanna Lillis Feb 5, 2022
Yerevan vaccination

COVID spikes in Armenia even as vaccine mandate goes into effect

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.
Ani Mejlumyan Oct 29, 2021
Askhat Zheksebaev, Abai Begimbetov, and Diana Baimagambetova

Kazakhstan jails political dissidents in fresh crackdown

All the defendants are strident government critics, but their dissidence was confined to online attacks and tiny street protests.
Joanna Lillis Oct 11, 2021
Man blood pressure

Armenian vaccination mandate faces backlash

The government hopes to boost vaccination rates, but a new anti-vaccine campaign is on the rise.
Karine Ghazaryan Sep 29, 2021
COVID vaccination Armenia

Armenia to effectively require COVID vaccinations for all employees

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.
Ani Mejlumyan Sep 8, 2021
Gene Bunin. (Courtesy photo)

Kazakhstan bars entry to Xinjiang repression researcher

Bunin has also been banned from entering Uzbekistan.
Sep 6, 2021
The Huns ethnographic recreation park

Kazakhstan: COVID gives domestic tourism a fillip

Kazakhs unable to travel abroad are discovering their country is full of nice places to vacation. But what’s good for the local economy is not always good for nature.
Almaz Kumenov Jul 19, 2021
vaccination Iranians

Armenia changes vaccination policy as Iranian vaccine tourists flock

Iranians have been flooding into Armenia to get COVID vaccines, causing Tehran to complain and Yerevan to tighten the rules.
Karine Ghazaryan Jul 12, 2021
The last photo published on Rahmon’s Flickr page.

Tajikistan president pulls disappearing act over holiday season

What makes Rahmon’s disappearance all very odd is that he is a particular devotee of the Nowruz spring equinox feast.
Mar 23, 2021
Boiling point: Almaty demonstrators trapped in a kettle. (Photo: Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights)

Kazakhstan: Authorities use pandemic to quash protests

Restrictions on movement do not appear intended to stem the spread of COVID-19.
Almaz Kumenov Mar 1, 2021
Like father, like son: Mayor Emomali and President Rahmon clapping at the opening of a preschool facility in September. (Photo: Presidential administration)

Tajikistan: Would-be future president’s interview underwhelms

Mayor Emomali says city hall spent $1.14 million on bus stops.
Feb 11, 2021
Torosyan vaccine

Armenia eschews lockdown, but enjoys COVID reprieve

Analysts believe the country may be benefiting from herd immunity after devastation last year.
Ani Mejlumyan Jan 27, 2021
Just pretending: A mock riot in Khujand earlier this month. (Photo: screenshot of Interior Ministry footage)

Tajikistan: Writing for the president is on the wall (and then scrubbed off)

Predictions of an imminent revolt may be wishful thinking.
Jan 25, 2021
Torosyan vaccine

Caucasus vaccine effort infected with geopolitics

The COVID-19 vaccination experiences of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia show that if you’re a small and poor country, you need to rely on powerful friends.
Giorgi Lomsadze Jan 12, 2021
Nur Otan

Kazakhstan: With elections chore out of the way, it is time for politics

No real opposition parties were permitted to run.
Almaz Kumenov Jan 11, 2021

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