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Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan opposed discussion of Xinjiang at the UN Human Rights Council.

Most visitors to the Instagram account are aware it is not a news website.

It sounded like Xi Jinping was warning Putin against any adventures in Central Asia.

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 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.

With an art school and international animation festival, a Georgian Orthodox bishop is trying to revive a village on the de facto border with South Ossetia.

Bunin has also been banned from entering Uzbekistan.

Iran and Georgia considered as alternatives.

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

Japarov and Tashiyev came to office together, may they leave it apart.

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

The documents focuses on viruses, droughts, water shortages and food deficits as potential crisis flashpoints.