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woman carrying water

Turkmenistan: Water mess

While clumsy on COVID-19, Turkmenistan is being more sure-footed, or consistent at least, on the Afghanistan front. Plus, unsustainable agriculture. Our weekly briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Sep 7, 2021
Turkmenistan ambulances

Turkmenistan: Sins of commission

The government signals it is taking COVID a bit more seriously, without admitting the virus is running rampant. And Ashgabat gets down to business with the Taliban. This and more in our weekly briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Aug 31, 2021
Turkmen Navy

Turkmenistan: Out at sea

With the Taliban at the border, the president heads in the other direction to oversee defense operations on the Caspian Sea. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Aug 17, 2021
Bromide bros (Tajikistan presidential administration)

Turkmenistan: Trading places

That Central Asia's presidents seemed to enjoy themselves together was itself a breakthrough. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Aug 10, 2021
A bus in Bishkek on June 24

Kyrgyzstan: As third COVID-19 wave hits, protection options vanishingly small

Cases are rising rapidly and vaccines – for those who want them – are hard to find.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Jun 24, 2021
Sputnik V

Uzbeks weigh vaccines: Russian vs. Chinese

Vaccine hesitancy in Uzbekistan is high, bred by social media conspiracies that seem credible in a country without accountable authorities.
Ezoza Yakvalkhodjieva Jun 2, 2021
Despite the online registration and appointment system, patients had to fill out application forms at check-in. (Almaz Kumenov)

Kazakhstan: A diary from a vaccination

Our Kazakhstan correspondent describes the waiting, the bureaucracy, and the anticlimax of getting his Sputnik V jab in Almaty.
Almaz Kumenov Apr 22, 2021
Medicine man (president.kg)

Kyrgyzstan: President prescribes poison root for COVID-19

The health minister then drank the concoction at a press conference.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Apr 16, 2021
Serdar Berdymukhamedov visiting St Petersburg last year. (Russian government handout)

Turkmenistan: Master Berdymukhamedov goes to Moscow

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.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Apr 6, 2021
Not modeling caution: A meeting of the Uzbek and Kyrgyz presidents on March 11 (Uzbek government handout)

As a possible new COVID-19 wave looms, Central Asia is napping

The region appears wholly unprepared for the latest rise in cases.
Mar 17, 2021
Chinese flag (all photos by Danil Usmanov)

Kyrgyzstan: Waiting and loathing on the Chinese border

It can take four days to get to the front of the line at this bitterly cold pass almost two miles high.
Danil Usmanov Mar 4, 2021
Raring to go: The Sino-Uzbek vaccine is said to be easy to store. (Photo: Pharmaceutical Industry Development Agency)

Uzbekistan embarks on mass vaccination, but where will doses come from?

Hopes are being pinned on the Sino-Uzbek vaccine ZF-UZ-VAC 2001.
Mar 3, 2021
Tajik PM Kohir Rasulzoda and Russian deputy PM Alexei Overchuk at a signing ceremony in Moscow this week. (Photo: Tajik Foreign Ministry)

Russia using crisis in Tajikistan to advance EAEU agenda?

Dushanbe is desperate to resume flights to Russian cities.
Feb 12, 2021
Afghan-Turkmen border

Turkmenistan: Power to the Afghan people

Spraying chlorine, new infrastructure on the Afghan border, and claims of a naturally occurring COVID vaccine. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan bulletin.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Jan 19, 2021
Deputy Prime Minister Elvira Surabaldiyeva. (Photo: Government handout)

Kyrgyzstan: Official says COVID fatalities may be far more than admitted

Surabaldiyeva says "several thousand" people may have died.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Jan 15, 2021

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