Crossroads Asia

Regional governments are retooling surveillance systems in their “smart” cities to fight the pandemic, heightening existing concerns of rights and privacy.

Kazakhstan isn't quite out of the woods, but the government has ended the state of emergency and outlined plans for a staged re-opening.

TAV, a Turkish holding, completed the purchase of Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan's most active airport.

Mongolia ran a COVID-19 drill, complete with the lockdown of an entire district, to gauge its readiness for a real outbreak.

Now that Tajikistan has admitted the presence of COVID-19 in the country, the bad news will likely only grow.

First President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s eldest daughter was just dismissed from her post as chair of the Senate. Is it a sign of a power struggle?

On Friday, the wall of the three-year old Sardoba Reservoir gave way after a week of heavy rains.

The parliament of Uzbekistan approved observer status to the EAEU. Could it be just a deferment on membership?

The announcement confirms what experts long suspected, but the government denied: the pandemic has arrived in Tajikistan.

What does a new global press freedom index really say about Central Asia?

If Ashgabat simply moves the sick away from designated quarantine zones, will it fool the WHO?

For the first time in 15 years, USCIRF has recommended Uzbekistan not be deemed a country of particular concerns when it comes to religious freedom violations.