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

Kazakh lockdown benefit system crashes due to high demand (again)

Kyrgyz medical workers’ union complains of lowering of COVID-19 compensation

Kazakhstan to finally unite COVID-19 and pneumonia statistics

COVID-19: Kyrgyzstan blocks site calling for Jeenbekov’s impeachment, as political scientists appeal instead to Putin for help

Kyrgyzstan’s hard-hit Chuy region to start door-to-door coronavirus tests

Over 200 alleged Muslim Brothers charged or wanted in Tajikistan

WHO to send team to Kazakhstan to investigate “mystery” pneumonia

Kazakh lockdown extended until end of July as Kazakh journalists decide to keep their own fatalities count

Tajik justice ministry refuses to link mortality rate rise to COVID-19

Face masks and social distancing “due to dust and wind-borne pathogens” blowing over borders, Turkmen health ministry says

Toqaev promises to “draw a line” under issue of land sale to foreigners

Working group on Uzbek WTO accession holds first meeting for 15 years