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Natalie Gonnella-Platts and Albert Torres explain how consistent travel ban exemptions undercut global efforts to pressure the Taliban.
According to Turkish officials, the gas flow is planned to start on March 1, with Turkmen gas reaching Turkiye via a swap deal involving Iran.
The powers-that-be in Washington, elected and unelected alike, are parroting the same language used by Central Asian and Russian autocrats about...
Dinara Kutmanova and her son, once at the forefront of the Kumtor nationalization movement, were charged with abuse of office and fraud. They'd been...
Without guarantees that observers would be accredited, and an apparent lack of engagement by Dushanbe, the OSCE has chosen to cancel its monitoring...
Given the classified nature of the trial, the details of the alleged plot are unknown.
Planned originally for 2024, the summit is now scheduled for April 2025 in Samarkand – setting it apart from earlier China- and U.S.-Central Asia...
The Russian prime minister recently complained about "unfounded claims and illegal statements by high-level representatives of Kyrgyz government...
Six police officers were sentenced to three years in prison in relation to the torture of 44 foreign nationals in the dark days of Qandy Qantar 2022.
Trump's executive orders on aid and immigration have effectively frozen the Afghan SIV program, stranding thousands of Afghans in the process of...
The hydropower project in Kyrgyzstan has tapped into the region’s thirst for cooperation.
Given Trump’s past approaches, it’s entirely possible that the new U.S. president will demand that Central Asia’s governments “do more” with...
The Taliban authorities say that around 3 kilometers of the pipeline has been completed, out of more than 770 km needed to bring Turkmen gas to the...
"Many people know of Huawei either as a smartphone brand, or a foreign firm with a history of intellectual property theft problems, but Huawei is more...
Ten years ago, the country's Social Democrats were riding high.
Prosecutors are asking for 20-30 year sentences for eight defendants presumably accused of a coup plot about which there are very few details...
Letters obtained by The Diplomat suggest a failed effort to manipulate the U.S. sanctions system on the part of a well-connected Uzbek businessman.
The GRU spent tens of millions of dollars funding terrorist groups in Afghanistan to target U.S. and NATO forces, and routed funds and weapons through...
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan held a trilateral meeting on January 8, marking the significant progress made on settling the borders...
In 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported just under 100 Central Asians; in fiscal year 2024 nearly 750 were removed from...
Conflicts have consequences, even after the combatants have settled down to negotiate. On January 5, in the village of Arka-2 in Leilek district –...
On December 23, 47-year-old minibus driver Gayrat Dustov waited in line for six hours at a gas station in Tashkent. He was unable to fuel his...
Welcome to the new year, and to our annual primer on what to expect in the Asia-Pacific.
“All in all, vulnerable countries lamented that [COP29] was a lost opportunity for collective action and the outcome did not reflect a meaningful...
Earlier this month, INTERPOL issued red notices for two Russian citizens – Chechens Bislan Rasayev and Shamil Temirkhanov – wanted by Uzbekistan....
Days after inking an investment agreement , officials from China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan marked the ceremonial start of construction on the...
In January, the Diplomat’s monthly magazine, which I have managed for more than decade now, will once again feature a full-cast cover story...
Last week, a court in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, fined notorious former customs official Raimbek Matraimov 100,000 som ($1,152) after he admitted...
On October 30, the Karakol City Court in Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul Region upheld an 11-year sentence meted out in February 2023 to a 66-year-old man...
Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov bragged during a working visit to Uzgen district in Osh region on December 6 that there “ hasn’t been a single...
On December 4, following a meeting in the Kyrgyz city of Batken, the governments of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan announced that they had come to an...
Hours before he declared martial law in a shocking televised address, South Korea President Yoon Suk-yeol held talks with Kyrgyz President Sadyr...
Last month, a closed-door trial began in Tajikistan with eight defendants – including several politicians, a former foreign minister, and several...
A month after the attempted assassination of Komil Allamjonov, the former deputy head of the Presidential Administration, several people have...
“The energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables is a crucial part of the cure for climate change. But it’s a cure with brutal side effects...
“Let’s write about our country in a positive light and try to focus less on negative news,” Cabinet head Akylbek Japarov said.
The messages provide a glimpse as to what the Central Asian states wish to see from the next U.S. administration and how they aim to position...
The stories of three men jailed this year in Uzbekistan for taking part in Russia’s war in Ukraine together tell a tale of desperation and...
Although branded as commercial deals, most of the agreements involve a steel and mining company recently acquired and renamed by a state-owned...
Over the last decade, Tajikistan has pursued Group 24 activists around the world.
Russia is increasingly reliant on transnational schemes to circumvent sanctions, which occasionally run through Central Asia.
Uzbekistan’s prosecutor general has urged media to reply only on official sources of information in relation to the recent assassination attempt....
Jeromy Pittmann was convicted of providing false recommendation letters to more than 20 SIV applicants in exchange for bribes, undermining an...
A member of the group, also kidnapped from Turkiye earlier this year, was given a 20 year sentence. The exact charges are unknown.
O’zLiDeP, already the dominant force in the country’s parliament, saw its vote share increase in an election observers said lacked real competition...
“Xi has significantly moved the ideological needle -- making China more Leninist, more Marxist and more nationalist.”
The countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus are being used to facilitate the transfer of sanctioned goods into Russia, including allegedly...
Of the 11 journalists charged in a case that has drawn heavy criticism, two received prison sentences, two probation, and seven were acquitted.
A 27-year-old Afghan national in the U.S. on a special immigrant visa and a juvenile accomplice were arrested on October 7 after allegedly...
Putin characterized cooperation within the CIS as “one of the Russian Federation's top foreign policy priorities.”
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