Central Asia

A viral video depicting horrific domestic abuse reveals tension in social media’s mobilizing power.

Turkmen at home and abroad rarely protest, but botched responses to natural disasters and the pandemic have led to a surge of activism.

Now among Kazakhstan’s 15,877 reported cases of COVID-19: First President Nursultan Nazarbayev. 

Kyrgyz prime ministers tend to have a short shelf-life.

Turkmenistan’s denial of the virus’ presence in the country has inevitably cost lives. Not naming it doesn’t make it go away.

Buzurgmehr Yorov bravely took on the defense of the IRPT leadership and, like his clients, lost his freedom.

Two wrongs don’t make a right: a decade after violence exploded in Kyrgyzstan’s south, Azimzhan Askarov remains in jail.

This weekend’s protests in Kazakhstan took place under a new law, but had the same results.

Uzbekistan is joining the union as an an observer, but its officials have been promising the benefits of a full member.

Two-thirds of the field’s workforce were sent home late last month, but it continues to grow as a virus hotspot.

Kyrgyz authorities allege, with the hearsay of a single witness, that journalists involved in a massive investigation of corruption took payment to report.

China’s rise in Central Asia has been swift.