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Tobias Colangelo looks at the history of Vozrozhdeniye, a lost island in the Aralkum once home to the largest anthrax dump in the world

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews Madina Tlostanova's seminal work examing how decolonial art can build a new future within post-Soviet states

Katherine Leung reviews short films from the Davra Collective, a growing roster of Central Asian artists, which screened at goEast

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews the collection of innovative films competing in the Rheinmain Short Film Award

In this translated piece, Viktor Volkov discusses the case of Nafosat Ollashukurova and the repression of civil society in Uzbekistan

Sydney Millar analyses the latest trial of the Karakalpak protestors, with a focus on the sentencing of journalist Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov

Charlie Norman takes a look at the deepening regional cooperation in Central Asia and how a focus on local context is crucial

Sydney Millar on the recent exodus of Russian men to the Central Asian states as Vladimir Putin has announced partial mobilization for the war in Ukraine.

Did the Uzbek government just strip the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan of its constitutional right to independence?

In April the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed that it had fired ten rockets at a military base near the Afghan-Uzbek border. With violence ramping up, keeping tabs on the ISKP is [...]