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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 [...]

Elodie Phillips' interview Suna Julia Parks about growing up in Central Asia, about moving back to the city where she was born as an adult and, her projects current work with "hashar" and [...]

Tereza Dvorakova on the current state of religious acceptance in Uzbekistan.

Katherine Leung interview Tashkent painter Marie Korovina about her art and philosophy. For Lossi 36's new exhibition: Fables, Fairytales and Feminism - contemporary women artists making magic in [...]

Mamut Churlu is part of the mass return of Tatar repatriates to the Crimean Peninsula at the fall of the Soviet Union. Churlu worked for years in Uzbekistan and Russia on researching folk art [...]