Russians are leaving their country in droves to avoid being called-up to fight in Ukraine, heading for neighbouring...

Netflix has shown interest in films made in Kazakhstan, but the industry needs to win an audience at home too

OPINION: I’ve witnessed war, earthquakes, unrest, revolution and a pandemic. Now I’m packing my emergency bag again

Taliban-ruled Afghanistan’s new golden age of coal reveals a country that is going back to old-fashioned ways

Silk production is still a major part of the country’s economy – and women bear the brunt of this harsh work

Workers in Kazakhstan have faced pressure for years but continue to fight for their rights and social justice, new...

Uzbekistan has been rocked by its largest protest in nearly two decades. What happened – and who’s to blame?

Tajikistan has stepped up its offensive against the Gorno-Badakhshan region. I knew the man at the top of its hitlist

As NATO-backed pressure mounts on Russia’s troops, so too does the risk from weapons of mass destruction

Small farmers are the world’s primary suppliers of food. It’s imperative we listen to them, not the big corporates

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The mothers claim they were first on the streets during the January protests, the largest and most violent in the...

Access to abortion for Turkmen people has been shortened to five weeks. There’s been silence from those who could...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the right-wing press will inflame any debate on decolonisation,...

Thousands of Russians have fled to the Armenian capital of Yerevan. But the war has far bigger implications for the...

The difference between the silence of ‘official’ Dushanbe and the views found on Tajikistan’s streets could not be starker

With many Central Asian states reliant on cash sent back home from those working abroad in Russia, sanctions are...

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Those in the Middle East know the kind of destruction seen in Ukraine all too well – the West was the perpetrator

In Kazakhstan, where a Soviet past still lingers, there are clear generational divides in opinion towards Putin’s invasion

Since 2022 conflicts on the troubled border left three people dead and sparked protests over independent media

As an Armenian, I feel our pain was ignored. And my trauma means I’m struggling to empathise as I should with Ukraine today