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The authorities are spooked by the idea that a crowd could form.

Independent Ukraine has held only one census, almost 20 years ago.

The apology or recantation is uploaded to social media. Often, there is a pretense of the repentance being voluntary. But that is not always the case.

A state TV program accuses reporters of working in league with would-be extremists.

It’s open season on journalists in Tajikistan and officials aren’t shy about blaming the victims.

With supply chains disrupted, patients with chronic needs are unable to find key medicines.

President Rahmon has kept a low profile, leaving his son to take the lead.

Questions will be asked why this announcement came so late.

The World Health Organization is refusing to answer questions while it appears to support the government’s increasingly dubious claims.

Critics are exasperated by the government’s passivity, warning that the reforms needed for Tajikistan to weather this moment should have been adopted “the day before yesterday.”

The Central Asian dictatorship insists it has no cases of coronavirus. So the beautiful game must go on.

The president is bullish that his country will dodge the pandemic and spent the weekend glad-handing the public.

As the government pretends everything is normal, families are in a state of deepening anxiety over a perfect storm that could plunge the country into an unusually severe crisis.

Mosques have been shuttered and shoppers are stockpiling food.

Central Asia claims zero cases of coronavirus, but the economic symptoms are everywhere. This and more in our monthly briefing on Chinese business in the region.