Hospitals converted into pneumonia facilities and busy cemeteries as Turkmen media continues to warn of “harmful dust”

Kyrgyzstan announces drop in COVID-19 infection rate

Uzbek lockdown extension date set for 15 August

EU calls for investigation into Azimjan Askarov death

Kyrgyz prison services give their version of Azimjan Askarov’s death

Major disturbances in Kazakhstan as crowd demands mob justice for child abductor

Rights defender Azimjan Askarov dies in jail

Tashkent officials forced into mass apology on live TV amid signs Uzbekistan’s COVID situation worse than portrayed

Uzbek lockdown set to be extended further into August

Uzbekistan to set up low-cost airline together with Russia

MP’s attacks provoke further high-profile rows over Uzbekistan’s monopolies

Liberalisation dispute erupts in Uzbekistan as antimonopoly committee urges stripping Uzmetkombinat of its privileges

Senior Uzbek army officer given 11 years for spying for Russia

Turkmenistan goes into lockdown over non-existent virus (and uses planes to disinfect its airspace)

Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan announce stabilisation of COVID-19 situation

UN urges Uzbekistan to reduce presidential influence over the judicial system

Report sets out “alarming state” of Tajik healthcare

Jailed rights defender Azimjan Askarov seriously ill