Charges have been dropped against a young Uzbek woman accused of beating up two men who had sexually harassed her, though her ordeal has once again highlighted the problems many women face when they violate the unwritten code of patriarchal society in Uzbekistan.
For weeks, people in Belarus have been protesting against the results of that country’s August 9 presidential election that saw longtime incumbent leader Alyanksandr Lukashenka claim an overwhelming victory that few of his countrymen believed was true.
The opposition Butun Kyrgyzstan party is back in the upcoming parliamentary elections thanks to a court decision, but it's raising some questions about the process and the motivations for allowing it to compete.
Turkmen authorities continue to deny there are any cases of the coronavirus in the country. Now, there is a widespread rumor that people who do go to Turkmen hospitals showing signs of the virus do not leave alive – but they don't necessarily die from COVID-19.
On this week's Majlis Podcast, the panel discusses what has and has not changed since Shavkat Mirziyoev became Uzbekistan's leader.
Next month's parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan are an opportunity for the country to show how it is further along the democratic road than its authoritarian neighbors. But the coronavirus outbreak and resulting economic problems have given some political parties an opportunity to buy votes.
At least 16 political parties are slated to compete in the upcoming Kyrgyz parliamentary elections after some frantic activity and the dismantling of many previously established parties in Central Asia's lone democracy.
The untimely death of Aisultan Nazarbaev, the grandson of first Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, is the latest chapter in the palace intrigues that increasingly surround Kazakhstan's first family.
The authorities in Turkmenistan continue to deny there are any cases of coronavirus in the country.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said after a July visit to Turkmenistan that from what it saw there were no coronavirus cases in the country, as Turkmen officials claimed. The WHO has permission for another visit -- will they find it this time?
On this week's Majlis podcast, RFE/RL's Media-Relations Manager Muhammad Tahir moderates a discussion on the different methods Central Asian governments are using to count the number of coronavirus cases and deaths.
Kyrgyzstan is readying for parliamentary elections in October that the pandemic and a sweeping reorganization of its political parties ensure will be very different from any of its previous votes.
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