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![Central Asia Braces for COVID-19 Omicron Wave Central Asia Braces for COVID-19 Omicron Wave](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2021-06-08.jpg)
Central Asia Braces for COVID-19 Omicron Wave
By Catherine Putz
With the arrival of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Central Asia looks to be heading into its fourth wave of pandemic.
![Vaccine Diplomacy in Central Asia: Russia vs. China? Vaccine Diplomacy in Central Asia: Russia vs. China?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-11-09-7.jpg)
Vaccine Diplomacy in Central Asia: Russia vs. China?
By Catherine Putz
Can “vaccine diplomacy” change any minds in Central Asia when it comes to the Russia vs. China equation?
![How Data Doomed Central Asia’s COVID-19 Responses How Data Doomed Central Asia’s COVID-19 Responses](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-07-22-5.jpg)
How Data Doomed Central Asia’s COVID-19 Responses
By Catherine Putz
As the saying goes, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
![Central Asian States Take on ‘False Information’ Central Asian States Take on ‘False Information’](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-06-25-11.jpg)
Central Asian States Take on ‘False Information’
By Catherine Putz
Laws put in place to support the fight against COVID-19 by targeting false information are easily abused to crack down on negative opinions and dissent.
![What’s the Impact of Turkmenistan’s COVID Delusion? What’s the Impact of Turkmenistan’s COVID Delusion?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-11-22_14-56-03.jpg)
What’s the Impact of Turkmenistan’s COVID Delusion?
By Catherine Putz
Turkmenistan says it is COVID-19 free, but the virus, analysts say, is impacting the country whether Ashgabat admits its presence or not.
![Post-Pandemic Central Asia: Moving Beyond ‘Helicopter Money’ Post-Pandemic Central Asia: Moving Beyond ‘Helicopter Money’](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-05-11-8.jpg)
Post-Pandemic Central Asia: Moving Beyond ‘Helicopter Money’
By Gregory Gleason
Social and economic upheaval at such a scale as experienced amid the COVID-19 pandemic unavoidably entails political effects.
![Kazakhstan’s Coronavirus Payments: The Quest for 42,500 Tenge Kazakhstan’s Coronavirus Payments: The Quest for 42,500 Tenge](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-05-11-8.jpg)
Kazakhstan’s Coronavirus Payments: The Quest for 42,500 Tenge
By Anastassiya Fershtey
The process of receiving financial aid from the Kazakh government turned into a “quest” for Kazakhs.
![Technology and Policing a Pandemic in Central Asia Technology and Policing a Pandemic in Central Asia](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-05-13-1.jpg)
Technology and Policing a Pandemic in Central Asia
By Catherine Putz
Regional governments are retooling surveillance systems in their “smart” cities to fight the pandemic, heightening existing concerns of rights and privacy.
![Kazakhstan Begins Easing Some COVID-19 Restrictions Kazakhstan Begins Easing Some COVID-19 Restrictions](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-international-2693236_1280.jpg)
Kazakhstan Begins Easing Some COVID-19 Restrictions
By Catherine Putz
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.
![Zero to 15: Tajikistan Finally Confirms First Cases of COVID-19 Zero to 15: Tajikistan Finally Confirms First Cases of COVID-19](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-04-30-14.jpg)
Zero to 15: Tajikistan Finally Confirms First Cases of COVID-19
By Catherine Putz
The announcement confirms what experts long suspected, but the government denied: the pandemic has arrived in Tajikistan.
![Report Claims Turkmenistan Is Shuffling the Quarantined out of View Report Claims Turkmenistan Is Shuffling the Quarantined out of View](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-04-01.png)
Report Claims Turkmenistan Is Shuffling the Quarantined out of View
By Catherine Putz
If Ashgabat simply moves the sick away from designated quarantine zones, will it fool the WHO?
![Human Rights Beyond the Time of Coronavirus Human Rights Beyond the Time of Coronavirus](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-06-02_19-47-14.jpg)
Human Rights Beyond the Time of Coronavirus
By Catherine Putz
Central Asia has seldom been a haven of respect for human rights and the coronavirus pandemic opens new opportunities for abuse.
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