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  • Sunday, 3 July, 2022
    Uzbekistan
    Uzbek government backs down after plan for constitution sparks protests

    Move to strip autonomous region of special status dropped but analysts warn unrest could spread

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    News in-depthKazakhstan
    ‘We were running from bullets’: Kazakhstan’s biggest city recovers from unrest

    In Almaty, residents search for the missing as workers repair burnt-out buildings

  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    Kazakhstan
    Voices from Kazakhstan: protesters unbowed despite bloody crackdown

    Brutal violence as government crushed unrest has only increased public anger, say activists

  • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
    Kazakhstan
    Kazakh leader vows to tackle inequality behind protests

    President Tokayev pledges pay rises and social fund, but wealth seen as likely to stay in hands of elites

  • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
    News in-depthKazakhstan
    Kazakhstan unrest: ‘bandits’, foreign ‘terrorists’ or messy power struggle?

    Rather than a planned coup d’état, the uprising seems to have been a spontaneous protest that tapped deep resentments

  • Sunday, 9 January, 2022
    Kazakhstan
    Kazakhstan detains 6,000 in security forces crackdown after protests

    Russian-led military alliance takes control of a range of strategic sites

  • Friday, 7 January, 2022
    Kazakhstan
    Kazakhstan’s president issues ‘shoot to kill’ order in push to end unrest

    Tokayev also gives ‘special thanks’ to Putin after Russian special forces help regain control of airport

  • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
    News in-depthKazakhstan
    Kazakhstan protests mark end of Nazarbayev era

    Former president’s handpicked successor takes control of security forces and turns to Russia for help

  • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
    Kazakhstan
    Russian forces arrive in Kazakhstan after president seeks help

    Dozens reported killed in clashes between protesters and police while oil markets are unnerved by supply fears

  • Wednesday, 5 January, 2022
    Kazakhstan
    Russian-led alliance says it will send ‘peacekeepers’ to Kazakhstan over protests

    State of emergency declared in oil-exporting nation as Tokayev vows to respond with force to rising dissent

  • Friday, 10 September, 2021
    Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
    Taliban takeover turns Uzbekistan into powerbroker

    President Shavkat Mirziyoyev cultivates Central Asia leadership role

  • Thursday, 26 August, 2021
    Saad Mohseni
    There is still a chance to save Afghanistan

    The international community has leverage over the Taliban — it must use it

  • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
    News in-depthAfghanistan
    Russia seeks to forge ties with Taliban as US troops leave Afghanistan

    Moscow cheers retreat of American forces and aims to stop threat of Isis and al-Qaeda spilling over its borders

  • Sunday, 16 May, 2021
    Kyrgyzstan
    Kyrgyzstan faces international legal battle over gold mine

    Canadian company Centerra Gold files arbitration suit to stop Bishkek from nationalising Kumtor

  • Sunday, 9 May, 2021
    News in-depthRussian economy
    Russia hit by fall in migrant workers from central Asia

    Construction and agriculture worst affected as Covid border closures and Moscow’s harsh rhetoric deter foreign labour

  • Monday, 19 April, 2021
    News in-depth
    Remittances help cushion central Asia from pandemic hit

    Fall in gas revenues from China and slow vaccination rollout pose drag to recovery

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
    InterviewKyrgyzstan
    Kyrgyzstan’s new president rebuffs critics’ claims over ‘dictatorship’

    Sadyr Japarov defends constitutional overhaul that will strengthen powers of his office

  • Sunday, 10 January, 2021
    Kyrgyzstan
    Nationalist wins landslide victory in Kyrgyzstan presidential vote

    Sadyr Japarov — dubbed ‘Kyrgyz Trump’ — rose from felon to elected head of state in three months

  • Wednesday, 21 October, 2020
    News in-depthKyrgyzstan
    Kyrgyzstan’s prisoner-turned-president to oversee new polls

    Russia keen to keep country in its orbit and Sadyr Japarov seen as friendly to Moscow

  • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
    Kyrgyzstan
    Nationalist firebrand assumes power in Kyrgyzstan after president resigns

    Sadyr Japarov, whose supporters freed him from jail last week, says he has taken over as head of state

  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
    Wish I were there...
    Wish I were there: off the beaten track in Tajikistan

    Plans to make 2020 a ‘year of tourism’ have been dashed but if visitors do return, treasures await

  • Wednesday, 15 July, 2020
    News in-depth
    Central Asian countries fear economic hit as virus cases surge

    Kazakhstan and neighbours reintroduce lockdown after rising infections highlight danger of exiting early

  • Monday, 18 May, 2020
    News in-depthReliance Industries Ltd
    Ambani’s ambition to turn Reliance into internet titan wins backing

    Digital diversification looks prescient as group’s core energy businesses face downturn

  • Tuesday, 10 March, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Airlines slash flights to cut costs as coronavirus hits travel demand

    Qantas warns slump will be ‘survival of the fittest’ as American, Delta and United lower forecasts

  • Monday, 24 February, 2020
    beyondbricsRaffaello Pantucci
    US unlikely to change minds by shouting at China’s neighbours

    Washington needs more sophisticated narrative to break central Asia’s pragmatic ties to Beijing

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