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Kazakh officials know they cannot be seen siding with a Chinese company.

Tashkent’s vaccination campaign is getting a shot in the arm.

Salaries were always horribly low but living costs have soared since the pandemic began.

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

In recent years the Caucasus country has become a magnet for Iranian students, business owners, and dissidents. But now many report they’re not being allowed to enter.

Central Asia’s largest nations are using unique coronavirus vaccines that haven’t been carefully studied. Do they have a choice?

The COVID-19 outbreak has compounded a problem caused by low salaries.

Conspiracy theories have fueled the low update for vaccination.

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

China has delivered 300,000 doses of vaccine, but will the public want them?

The saiga population has rocketed by 150 percent in the last two years.

The government appears to be taking active measures to cover up the new outbreak.

Critics are concerned over potential privacy issues.

Our Kazakhstan correspondent describes the waiting, the bureaucracy, and the anticlimax of getting his Sputnik V jab in Almaty.

The group's alleged leader was an Egyptian national teaching Arabic at a local state-run university.