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

The demonstration, which city hall allowed, passed peacefully.

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

In our weekly briefing: doing business with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Plus, it’s reprimand season.

Bunin has also been banned from entering Uzbekistan.

Iranians have been flooding into Armenia to get COVID vaccines, causing Tehran to complain and Yerevan to tighten the rules.

Vaccine hesitancy in Uzbekistan is high, bred by social media conspiracies that seem credible in a country without accountable authorities.

The timing of the new legislation recalls recent reporting that cast the president in an unfavorable light.

Restrictions on movement do not appear intended to stem the spread of COVID-19.

The journalist faced not only the customary bureaucratic hurdles, but even alleged sexual harassment from an individual possibly linked to the security services.

No real opposition parties were permitted to run.

But there is no papering over the festering disillusionment.

A facile and naïve plan being discussed in Washington risks backfiring on Iran’s minority Christians.

One hundred years after the Red Army established the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, residents are ambivalent about its meaning.

Rigged elections have created political crises in two other post-Soviet countries this year, leaving Nur-Sultan edgy ahead of a parliamentary vote.