Why the recent elections in Tajikistan will have no effect on how the country is run

How desertification threatens the countries of Central Asia, and how it can be stopped

Canadian solar power company SkyPower accuses the Uzbek authorities of reneging on a $1.3bn deal

Violence in the Surkhandarya region shines a spotlight once again on Uzbekistan’s problems with forced evictions and demolitions

How Jehovah’s Witnesses in Turkmenistan are being sent to labour camps for conscientious objection to military service

One hundred years ago this year, the Bolsheviks invaded and abolished the Khanate of Khiva and the Emirate of Bukhara. Why were these monarchies doomed to extinction?

30 years since the ”Black February” events in Dushanbe

Ethnologist and social anthropologist Igor Savin on the roots of the conflict in southern Kazakhstan