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Catherine PutzThe Diplomat |
If leaked documents listing active and terminated projects are accurate, almost all USAID programs in Central Asia have been cut.
A day after RFE/RL won a temporary restraining order against USAGM’s freezing of its funding, the agency has backed off. But it may be, at best, a...
Since February, there have been four separate reports of UAV fragments landing in a Kazakh region that borders Russia.
A discussion on religious freedom abroad invariably circled back to the present political turmoil in the United States under the second Trump...
RFE/RL leadership has pushed back on the decision by its parent organization, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, to cancel its grants, calling the move...
The 2024 harvest saw a shortage of pickers, government backtracking on positive legislation, and issues stemming from the cotton cluster system;...
On the run since 2018, former immigration lawyer Danhong “Jean” Chen was recently detained in Kyrgyzstan and extradited to the United States.
But a proposed increase from 1.4 million tons to 2.2 million tons is just a drop in the bucket compared to the volumes Kazakhstan exports via...
The presidents of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are expected to meet for their first-ever trilateral summit on March 31.
The effort, however, comes at a time when major global powers – namely the U.S. – are pivoting away from the kind of U.N.-centered cooperative...
Pulat Bobojonov, who has been minister of internal affairs since 2017, was moved to an adviser post in the presidential administration.
Moscow doled out permanent entry bans on Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi and eight other top officials and business leaders in retaliation for Japanese...
31 plots in Uzbekistan’s prime gold mining region Navoi went up for auction last month, sparking rumors and discussion about China’s growing...
“We need to ask why there hasn’t been much change to advance women’s human rights and end injustice?”
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.
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