The president’s family has a monopoly on tickets, cashing in on a profound desperation. Ikrom, a 32-year-old from Tajikistan’s southern Temurmalik district, sold his cow for 10,000 somoni ($883) to …
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The April 11 vote for 448 local councils across the country may turn out to be more consequential than usual Local elections in Kyrgyzstan are always a time for sweeping …
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The president gets another title, ignores soaring food prices, starts a charity, and pens a ditty to his favorite city. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing. Turkmenistan has …
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Tajik students, for now, are not among those being allowed to return to their studies in Russia. The Diplomat has removed paywall restrictions on our coverage of the COVID–19 crisis. …
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Police in southeastern Turkmenistan have been seen randomly detaining people who look disheveled or are wearing old clothes. Stopped on the streets, they are accused of begging or being homeless …
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The United States and its allies are stepping up pressure on China in a unified show of force against Beijing’s alleged repression of Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority, in …
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Many of the affected families were caught up in the ethnic unrest that tore through Osh in June 2010. This story has roots in those troubles. The court summons delivered …
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The region appears wholly unprepared for the latest rise in cases. Many people in Central Asia have long since dropped their guard against the COVID-19 emergency. There are worrying signs, …
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The president makes an unprecedented admission: Turkmenistan is deep in the red. Watchers of Central Asian affairs are used to hearing about the teetering piles of debt weighing down Kyrgyzstan …
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Prevented from travelling abroad by the Covid pandemic, locals are instead visiting the magnificent glaciers of the Tian Shan mountain range near Kazakhstan’s biggest city, Almaty Peaks of the Tian …
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