What went wrong in Central Asia’s coronavirus response?

Exchange of fire on Tajik-Kyrgyz border

Bishkek hospital chief physician sacked after PPE and bed sale scandal

Turkmen medics threatened with criminal charges after PPE protest

Tajikistan resumes commercial flight connections with Dubai

Uzbekistan again extends foreign visas

Kazakh deputy health minister arrested on corruption charges, amid other recent scandals

First COVID-19 vaccination tested in Kazakhstan, as government finally “unites” coronavirus and pneumonia statistics

Kyrgyz president sends controversial “fake news” law back for further work

Tajik interior ministry confirms death of “ISIS war minister” Gulmurod Halimov

Turkmen activists carry coffins to WHO office in Washington

Karakalpakstan parliament head Musa Yerniyazov dies of COVID-19, as several other top Uzbek officials undergo treatment

Rights defender Azimjan Askarov laid to rest in Uzbekistan

“Another week and I wouldn’t have got out of there alive”

The beshik – a 2,000-year-old tradition

Uzbek antimonopoly committee files charges against UzAuto Motors

“The number of graves now is 15 times greater”

Tajik national shot dead by Moscow security services “was planning attack in Gorky Park”, another group of Tajiks arrested on terror charges in Saint Petersburg

UN Human Rights Committee reacts to Azimjan Askarov death

Kazakhstan extends second lockdown for second time