If you're an ethnic Kazakh or a Kazakh citizen in northwest China, you can face detention on espionage and extremism...

Authoritarian states are using all-too familiar constitutional mechanisms to consolidate power.

Post-independence Kazakhstan has seen a revival in Kazakh genealogies, sub-ethnic lineages and identities.

This new book provides a comprehensive overview of Kazakhstan’s oil business, but skips over the uncomfortable truth...

Kyrgyz women still tend to live and work in traditionally female occupations. RU

As Internet penetration grows in the country, so do the government’s attempts to monitor, control and repress...

In the former capital city of Almaty, the move to catalogue Soviet buildings is an attempt to create an alternative...

With flat-rate taxes and sky-high growth rates, some call Nagorno-Karabakh a “Caucasian Tiger”. Meanwhile, money...

In 2011, a seven-month-long strike in a Kazakh oil town came to tragic end. Six months after I reported on the...

Tajikistan is trying to persecute what was once Central Asia’s only legal Islamist party out of existence. But is...

One year after the death of Islam Karimov, the continued use of forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields shows...

In the run-up to presidential elections on 15 October, Kyrgyzstan’s authorities are intensifying their attacks on...

Twenty five years have passed since the war in Abkhazia, but ethnic Georgian refugees from the breakaway territory...

A year and a half ago, the authorities in Abkhazia banned abortions in nearly all circumstances. These women have...

Uzbekistan has often used forced labour to bring in the cotton harvest. A new report shows that the World Bank’s...

From humanitarian aid to desperate refugees, Tajikistan and Europe are more closely connected than you might think....

This year marks 20 years since the signing of peace accords in Tajikistan. But the price of peace has cost the...

Academic Laura Sjoberg argues that our gendered assumptions about sexual violence in conflict limit our...

Ulugbek Babakulov raised the problem of Kyrgyz nationalism online. And now, he’s being smeared publicly.

Scrambling to address the growing threat of Islamist terrorism from Central Asia, Russia’s security apparatus is...