Spotlight on Central Asia

Religious Regulations, Russian Rehearsals, and the TCTC's Regional Roadblocks

This week, we'll be looking at Kyrgyzstan unveiling plans that would require religious bloggers to be licensed and subjected to greater state oversight; further changes to the country's regional secur...

2026-10-05

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Caspian Catastrophe, Opposition Overhaul, and Turkmenistan at 35

This week, we'll be looking at how a military tragedy on the Caspian is creating political shockwaves across Kazakhstan; a whole series of military exercises taking place across the region; a major le...

2026-09-28

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Martial Moves, Peculiar Procurement, and the Sixth Nomad Games

This week, we're covering world leaders arriving in Bishkek for the SCO summit, one Central Asian state proposing new martial-law amendments that could concentrate enormous power in just a handful of ...

2026-09-14

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Russia's Return to Afghanistan, New Chinese Jets, and Kazakhstan's Legislative Election

This week, we're covering the eyes of the world turning toward Central Asia for the upcoming SCO summit in Bishkek, bringing Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi together in the Kyrgyz capital...

2026-08-31

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Election Engineering, Afghan Attacks, and Mirziyoyev's Ten-Year Transformation

This week, we're covering one of Central Asia's leaders openly calling on Vladimir Putin to bring the war in Ukraine to an end, Russia moving to tear up a number of its military agreements with two Ce...

2026-08-24

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Taliban Troubles, Security Service Strife and the Deportation Divide

This week, we're covering a heatwave sweeping across Central Asia, anti-Taliban forces briefly seizing a district headquarters in a worrying sign of cracks in the Taliban's control, a shootout between...

2026-07-20

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Exclave Exchanges, Energy Anger, and Tashiev's Trial of the Century

This week, we're covering a new election date being set in Kazakhstan, with the country's largest party staying off the ballot, rare protests in Turkmenistan over blackouts and economic frustration, t...

2026-07-06

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Kazakh Coalitions, Kyrgyz Security Signals, and Uncovering Disinformation Networks in Central Asia

This week, we're covering a major political merger in Kazakhstan, new counter-terrorism raids in southern Kyrgyzstan, a shock resignation inside the Kyrgyz government, security and military forces bei...

2026-06-22

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Defence Deals, Cotton Conscription, and Kyrgyzstan's UN Victory

This week, we're covering the latest Eurasian Economic Union talks, a new defence deal between Moscow and a very unlikely ally, Kazakhstan putting itself forward to play a major role in the Iran nucle...

2026-06-08

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OTS Optimism, Afghan Ambushes, and a Deep Dive on the Next President of Tajikistan

This week, we're covering the highly successful OTS summit in Turkistan, alongside Putin's notably bad day at the Moscow Victory Day parade. We'll also break down the new ships launching in the Caspia...

2026-05-18

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Bishkek's Backlash, Russia's New Red Lines, and a Caspian in Crisis

This week, we're tracking the culmination of Bishkek's power struggle as charges are formally brought against Tashiev, alongside a fresh wave of EU sanctions that look designed to make an example of o...

2026-05-04

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Florida Diplomacy, Kazakh Arrests, and the China-Kyrgyzstan Railway

This week, we'll be covering the arrest of 19 anti-China protesters in Kazakhstan, the announcement of the date for Kazakhstan's upcoming parliamentary elections, major diplomatic moves unfolding betw...

2026-04-20

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Arrests, Agreements and the Afghanistan-Pakistan Conflict

This week, we examine a series of significant developments across Central Asia, from the deepening fallout of Kyrgyzstan's political power struggle, with fresh arrests, widening investigations, and re...

2026-04-06

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Referendums, Rockets, and the Rogun Dam

This week, we examine a series of major developments across Central Asia, from the results of Kazakhstan's constitutional referendum to the announcement of new Chinese-funded border outposts and forti...

2026-03-23

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Iran, Air Strikes and Central Asia's Strategic Dilemma

This week, we examine a series of major developments across the region, from unusual trade figures linking Afghanistan and Central Asia, to the expansion of border fencing and fortifications between t...

2026-03-09

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Coups, Crackdowns and a Border Build-up

This week, we'll be covering Kazakhstan announcing the date for its upcoming constitutional referendum, controversial polling decisions in Kazakhstan, a new fighting force forming that could make the ...

2026-02-23

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Sales, Sanctions, and a New Kazakh Constitution

This week, we'll be covering the B5+1 summit in Bishkek, the prospect of new EU sanctions targeting Kyrgyzstan, fresh complications around Rosatom's nuclear plans in Uzbekistan, shake-ups inside Uzbek...

2026-02-08

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Astana's Military Shake-Up and Brussels' Big Bet in Central Asia

This week, we're tracking a string of developments that could reshape the region's security and political landscape, from a soldier's death in Kazakhstan triggering major shake-ups at the top of the m...

2026-01-25

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Central Asian Workers Under Attack in Russia

This week, we're taking a look at crackdowns on the Uzbek language in northern Afghanistan, a U.S. drone going down in Afghanistan, and the latest political aftershocks in Kyrgyzstan after a former pr...

2026-01-11

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Retaliation, Raids and Regional Integration,

This week, we're tracking a packed slate of stories across Central Asia, starting with Trump's invitations for Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to join the G20, while the rest of the region is left out in th...

2025-12-28

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