The "lifelong leader" of Kazakhstan has resigned, putting an end to a 30-year rule — and opening up space to reflect on the country's development.

Thirty years on from the end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, war veterans are having to deal with contemporary conflicts in their search for friendship and recognition.

A series of protests in Kyrgyzstan point to growing public feeling against China, one of the country’s biggest investors.

В Бишкеке прошли митинги против "нелегальных" мигрантов из Китая. oDR сравнил заявления протестующих с официальными цифрами, а также выяснил, какие последствия могут быть у прошедших демонстраций.

For many young women in Kyrgyzstan, video chats are the only way they can make a living. This work is not subject to any legal constraints, and they are often at risk of violence.

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Why researchers need to move beyond liberal assumptions about authoritarianism in Central Asia.

More than 5,000 people with vision impairment live in Kyrgyzstan. I speak to Matluba Hakimova about independence, assistance and citizenship.

The sudden tragic death of an investigative journalist raises questions about the fate of the press in Kyrgyzstan.

Last week, I reported on a possible conflict of interest over a mammoth urban development in Uzbekistan. The mayor of Tashkent responded to my claims — here’s my reaction.

As a major property development scheme gets under way in Tashkent, a data trail reveals a potential serious conflict of interest in Uzbekistan’s new corridors of power.

Eighty years after Stalin’s Great Terror, the names of thousands of its victims in Kyrgyzstan have still not been discovered. And those that are known have been only revealed by chance. RU

Mehman Huseynov, an Azeri blogger, is facing new fabricated charges in prison. But people inside and outside the country are coming together to try and free him.

A high-profile urban development project in Tashkent is designed to showcase the country for western capital. Our investigation suggests principal investors are from much closer to home.

A new $1.3 billion development in Uzbekistan’s capital is meant to rebrand this Central Asian state as open for business. But the costs of this project are turning out to be all too human. RU

New data shows that 96% of people who find themselves before a Kyrgyz court receive a guilty verdict (unless they are state officials, that is).

For those researching the global south, fieldwork needs to be reimagined as a collaborative process which can help overturn structures of oppression.

Sandwiched between three Central Asian states, people living on all sides of the Ferghana Valley are overcoming securitisation – through everyday cooperation.

A new memoir by Kyrgyzstan’s most prominent political prisoner takes readers back to the violence and impunity that followed the country’s 2010 revolution.

No country in the world is as dependent on remittances as Kyrgyzstan. But this money is often used by families to survive, and allows the state to avoid its obligations to its citizens.

This Russian-Kazakh film explores how people who migrate to Russia are often subject to forces far greater than themselves.