Crossroads Asia

Meanwhile, negotiations go on between the Swiss and Uzbek governments over millions in frozen assets.

The Islamic Republic issued its most serious warnings to date on the toll exacted by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Recent political moves reinforce the fact that Putin still lacks a well-placed family member to whom control could be handed, complicating his search for an exit strategy.

It was only a matter of time.

Mukhtar Dzhakishev, former head of Kazakhstan's uranium company, obtained an early release decision due to his declining health.

A former Kyrgyz lawmaker has been detained after a rally in support of a different jailed former parliamentarian went awry this past weekend.

Hussein Abdusamadov was the leader, and sole surviving member, of the group of Tajiks who killed four foreign cyclists in the summer of 2018.

To date, Central Asia has no confirmed cases of the virus but the region's countries are certainly concerned.

Is democracy, the Tokayev way, just the same authoritarian regime skillfully imitating democratic institutions and procedures to legitimate itself?

One “election” down, one more to go this year for Tajikistan. 

Tashkent has lined up its rationale and settled on a narrative for cooperation with the EAEU.

Around 80 activists were arrested on March 1 in Almaty in connection to an unsanctioned rally in memory of an activist who died in jail.