Crossroads Asia

For myriad reasons, vaccination programs in Central Asia are proceeding slowly. Hesitancy is one factor.

Mongolia has received vaccines not only from neighbors China and Russia, but from India and COVAX as well.

As the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan begins, some suspect Washington is looking for nearby basing options.

A month after being brutally beaten, Bazarov was released from the hospital and swiftly charged for insulting his old school in an October 2020 TikTok video.

While pledging hundreds of millions of doses, Russia has only delivered a fraction. It’s turning to Chinese companies to help pick up the pace.

Power consolidation and the institutional transformations of Turkmenistan’s assembly bodies.

Last week’s violence was some of the worst the border has seen, with more than 40 killed. 

Military officials in Russia and Central Asia agree to unite efforts as they prepare for a worsening of the situation in Afghanistan. 

Reportedly one Kyrgyz man has been killed in the clashes over a long-unsettled border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Another bad year for democracy across the former Soviet Union, with Kyrgyzstan slipping further into authoritarianism too. 

Special forces troops from India and Kyrgyzstan started a two-week exercise outside Bishkek on April 16.