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Activist urges EU not to “dance” with Turkmen dictatorship - изображение 1
30 ноября 2023 16:38
An activist has urged the European Union not to seek energy or other business deals with the Turkmen government as it would “legitimize” a dictatorship....
Turkmen activist barred from leaving country to get human rights award  - изображение 1
22 ноября 2023 20:57
Turkmen authorities have prevented a known activist from leaving the country for Geneva, where she had been invited to receive a human rights award, according...
Crackdown on bloggers and devout Muslims: end of Uzbek ‘reforms’?   - изображение 1
1 ноября 2023 16:12
Arrests of popular bloggers, anti-beard raids and pressure on halal restaurants to sell alcohol.  All that has been happening in Uzbekistan in the past several...
As debt to China grows Kyrgyzstan pledges to extradite Uighur “terrorists”  - изображение 1
27 октября 2023 18:52
Kyrgyzstan’s debt to China has grown 37 times over the past 15 years. A failure to repay it in time could result in China’s taking...
Artists reflect on Central Asia’s Soviet “cotton curse” - изображение 1
25 октября 2023 16:52
All post-Soviet nations have traumas, common and ‘individual’. Uzbekistan’s ‘individual’ trauma is linked to ‘the cotton curse’ – the Soviet economic planners’ idea to turn...
Russian official: migrants should be stripped of citizenship if they refuse to fight in Ukraine - изображение 1
20 октября 2023 15:15
The Russian Investigations Committee chief has proposed that naturalised migrants refusing to sign up to fight for Russia in Ukraine should be stripped of Russian...
Russian activist abducted in Bishkek amid growing pressure from the authorities - изображение 1
19 октября 2023 22:03
A Russian activist, Lev Skoryakin, has been abducted in the Kyrgyz capital, according to Russian opposition platforms. Anarchist Skoryakin was taken from the hostel where...
Kazakh leader’s visit to Xinjiang region raises questions - изображение 1
19 октября 2023 16:34
President Kasymzhomart Tokayev visited China’s western Xinjiang region this week. It could be a favour to Beijing – a gesture supporting the latter’s policy of...