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On May 16, fighting broke out in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) of Tajikistan between security forces and local residents. Protests had begun two days earlier in response to the [...]

On April 18, the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed that it had fired ten rockets at a military base in Termez, a city located near the Afghan-Uzbek border. While none of these [...]

On March 12, Turkmenistan established the first modern dynasty in Central Asia by electing the son of the former president, Serdar Berdymukhamedov. Despite the many promises Berdymukhamedov made [...]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month has put the leaders of the five Central Asian countries in an uncomfortable position. With more sanctions imposed on Russia by the West, the economic and [...]

As mass protests against the regime broke out in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the year, the first month of 2022 will go down in history as Bloody January. Is this the end of the Nazarbayev era? 

Since 2 January, the world has watched as a relatively small protest in western Kazakhstan turned into country-wide unrest. While it may shock some to see protests over an increase in fuel prices [...]

Sydney Millar on the second attempt at electing a new parliament after the failure of the last elections in October last year.

"What began as an absurd lie on behalf of the Turkmen government has become a real danger to Turkmenistan’s citizens." This month's Central Asia editorial by Sydney Millar.

Unlike most of its other neighbors, Tajikistan has not only pledged to help Afghans fleeing the Taliban, but has taken a strong stance against the new regime. Sydney Millar explores three [...]

At the end of last month, two Kazakh feminists and LGBT+ activists were detained on unclear grounds after a mob of around 30 men had started to harass them while they were giving a talk on [...]