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Officials suspect a newly published paper on the 14th century plague is a plot to kill the country's tourism industry.

Beishenaliyev says he has been set up by vindictive prosecutors.

Beishenaliyev enjoys a close relationship with the president.

The government said the system was useless against the Omicron variant, but critics accused them of pandering to anti-vaxxer sentiment.

The demonstration, which city hall allowed, passed peacefully.

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

Tbilisi’s world-famous nightclubs were the country’s last businesses to reopen following the COVID lockdown. But it took a confrontation with the authorities to make it happen.

The government has ordered the fiscal inspection service to withdraw letters accusing businesses of evading taxes.

Similar systems have been used around the world to encourage vaccinations. But under Georgia’s, you may be better off not being vaccinated at all.

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

Bunin has also been banned from entering Uzbekistan.

Poor and rural families are not equipped to handle online school. Now they fear another academic year is going to start with schools still closed.

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

Georgia’s mortality rate is among the world’s highest, and just under 6 percent of the population is fully vaccinated.

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