Insistence on reopening despite Delta is not only ‘epidemiological stupidity’ but only one part of an abject failure...

In Uzbekistan’s capital, a multicultural Soviet mahalla is under threat of demolition. But residents are fighting...

As long as the country’s Article 120 exists, said one young man, ‘we will live in fear and homophobes will have...

As the Taliban rapidly expand in the shadow of US and NATO allies’ retreat, has anyone considered the impact on...

Workers pushed into unstable jobs by the pandemic are fighting against repressive local rules to set up their own trade union

A nationalist government has recently taken over management at the mine situated in Kyrgyzstan's mountains, but will...

With rising mutations, catastrophe looms unless powerful states stop being so inward-looking and cooperate to...

Global organisations call on UN agencies to ‘stop access to decision-making’ for opponents of women’s and LGBT...

A culture of credit was nurtured for years in the Central Asian state, but now many left jobless by the pandemic...

Since the collapse of the USSR, credit has slowly taken hold as the only way to make ends meet in Kazakhstan and...

The terror group accelerates as it becomes clear that leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban’s control could backfire on the West

New research reveals how Brussels puts companies’ profits ahead of millions of people’s lives worldwide

On paper, civil society in Uzbekistan seems to be thriving – but officials are hiding its problems behind manipulated data

The potential threat of ‘Chinese expansion’ has mobilised Kazakhstanis at home, yet the plight of ethnic Kazakhs in...

From a camp in Greece, poet and human rights activist Parwana Amiri is fighting discrimination and demanding better...

Thousands of boots on the ground have been replaced by multiple deployments of smart bombs that stay under the radar...

An interview with novelist Yrysbek Dabei, who wants his country to confront a mass killing of striking workers in 2011

A recent conflict over disputed territories left at least 46 dead, and hundreds more injured

Seven global stories of the rising attacks on reporters and how they joined campaigners to take on hostile...

The much heralded privatisation of the Central Asian state’s cotton sector has led to claims of exploitation. But...