Uzbekistan follows Kazakhstan in switching coronavirus treatment paradigm as cases rise

Kazakh health minister diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia

Kyrgyz government seeks to stop reviewing cases based on international human rights concerns

Rushan residents tell of security forces’ threats

Kyrgyz PM Abylgaziev resigns

Backlash over moves to make private companies pay as Uzbek quarantine measures extended until August

Kazakh health minister hospitalised with COVID-19 as cases rise despite new method of counting

Tajik opposition figure extradited by Austria given 20 years in jail

Turkmen authorities empty quarantine facilities of patients ahead of WHO mission visit

Main medical centre in Dushanbe announces discharge of last COVID-19 patients

Hong Kong and Ashgabat the most expensive cities in the world for foreigners

New opposition group announces protest actions inside Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan will be only EECA country to see growth in 2020, World Bank predicts

Former Kyrgyz PM Isakov sentenced to 18 years in jail

Uzbekistan smashes record for daily new infections

Dozens arrested at demonstrations in Kazakhstan after participants threatened with quarantine

WHO mission to return to Tajikistan as authorities claim infections peak has passed

Russia announces plans for unified register of immigrants amid rumours of “social credit system” and amnesty for illegal migrants

Mirziyoyev sets up council to raise Uzbekistan’s position in international ratings as reforms press on despite COVID-19 crisis

Berdymukhamedov given international cycling body’s highest award