A Tajik man accused of being a member of a gang that recruited young men to fight in Syria was released on December 10 after being ordered to pay a fine, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
Tens of thousands of Kyrgyz are changing their names to sound more Russian in the belief it will make their lives easier.
China has reportedly freed an ethnic Mongol dissident, Hada, who has spent much of the last two decades behind bars.
Russia's state railway company says it will stop almost all service to Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan for a year starting December 14, citing a lack of demand.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit Uzbekistan on December 10.
A court in China's northwestern Xinjiang Province has sentenced eight members of the Uyghur community to death on December 8 for two deadly attacks in the region.
The chairman of the Tajik capital's economic court has been arrested for alleged bribe-taking.
Tajik state television has begun showing Hollywood films without subtitles or voiceover in a drive to help more people learn English.
Ten New York residents, including five former Soviet citizens, have been charged in a $70 million scheme to defraud Medicaid and Medicare at health clinics in New York.
Tajik prosecutors say 46 young men have been arrested on suspicion of planning to join Islamist fighters in Syria.
Two Central Asian women have been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in jail each in the Russian city of St. Petersburg for attempting to sell a baby.
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