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The increases have reversed a demographic decline that the territory has seen since the pandemic and war with Azerbaijan.

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

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.

Tashkent has also announced it will not return Afghan aircraft flown by pilots fleeing the Taliban last summer.

Beishenaliyev enjoys a close relationship with the president.

The demonstration, which city hall allowed, passed peacefully.

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.

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.

Middle-class Afghans with the means to navigate Tajikistan’s bureaucracy see the country as a springboard to the West.

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

That sets them apart from Afghanistan’s other post-Soviet neighbor, Tajikistan.

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.