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

How cash and connections tilt the scales of Tajikistan’s Themis

Clashes break out in southern Kazakhstan after an attack on police

In Kyrgyzstan, the freest country in Central Asia, press freedom is under threat