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In our podcast this week, hosts Aigerim Toleukhanova and Alisher Khamidov discuss the ongoing crackdown on political dissent in Kyrgyzstan and the president’s shadow parliament, which he has empowered to muffle the elected parliament. Kazakhstan’s pres…

Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan have in an intensely expedited manner approved a contentious border deal with Uzbekistan that will see the latter take effective control over an important water reservoir. Fully 64 of the 83 deputies present in the Jogorku Kenes…

In 1999, when Georgia was still struggling with economic collapse following the end of the Soviet Union, men earned almost twice as much as women: 91 lari per month on average compared to 47. The economy has improved dramatically since those dark years…

Moscow has abolished quotas for Uzbek migrants doing jobs in critical industries as Russia faces mobilization-related labor shortages. On November 10 the government lifted quotas in place since last year that allowed only 11,000 workers from Uzbekistan…

Authorities in Kyrgyzstan are planning to push through legislation that would enable greater government control over the activities of nongovernmental organizations. While the bill has not yet been submitted to parliament, there have already been wides…

A Chinese state-owned company has secured a contract to build an Olympic village-style facility in Uzbekistan that will be used to host the Asian Youth Games in 2025. China CAMC Engineering, a subsidiary of China National Machinery Industry Corporation…

Mahmudali Chehreganli, the self-proclaimed leader of the South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement, has not been allowed into Azerbaijan since 2006. From exile in Washington, he advocates for the northern, ethnic Azerbaijani-majority part of Iran to…

Georgia’s parliament has begun discussions of an anti-oligarchy law, in hopes of passing something that will satisfy European Union demands that the country “deoligarchize.” But with the ruling party in the driver’s seat of the process, there are conce…

Prosecutors in Kazakhstan have referred treason charges against the former head of the security services and his deputies to the courts, setting the stage for one of the most important, if secretive, trials in the country’s history. Karim Masimov will …

Tajikistan has denied that it is supplying Iranian-designed weaponized drones reportedly produced at a manufacturing facility in its capital to Russia for use in its bombing campaigns against Ukraine. The Foreign Ministry in Dushanbe released a stateme…