Central Asia

Kazakh has been written in a Cyrillic script since 1940, but government officials have long pushed for a gradual shift to a Latin alphabet.

ASAP or maybe never: In August, the WHO wanted to visit Turkmenistan ASAP to test suspected COVID-19 samples. To date, no new mission has taken place.

Anhui Zhifei Longcom Biopharmaceutical, a Chinese company, will run some of its phase three trial in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.

With new presidential elections set for January and parliamentary elections sometime before June 2021, the debate over what kind of government Kyrgyzstan should have is critical.

Last month, Kyrgyz rushed into offices. This month, they’re running for the exits in hopes of contesting the January 10 early presidential election.

Birtanov was minister until late June when he resigned after contracting COVID-19.

Treading carefully, both Moscow and Beijing have engaged the new Japarov government but with a markedly light touch.

Could a court decision punishing a victim of sexual harassment and the newspaper that helped her be Tajikistan’s #MeToo moment?

A pair of November 1 charter flights from Moscow to Dushanbe were cancelled.

The presidential elections are now set for January 10, while challenges have been filed over the cancellation of the December 20 parliamentary redo.

With a new film, the satirical character is back in the headlines – and so is Kazakhstan, his supposed home.

Tensions in Siberia are growing, fueled by fears around Chinese investment and resentment at being governed from another continent.