Here's a roundup of COVID-19 developments in RFE/RL's broadcast regions.
An Uzbek mother and a state hospital could face each other in court over whether she gave birth to twins or triplets.
Uzbek officials had long claimed success in battling the spread of the coronavirus, and the figures they offered seemed to support this. But in recent weeks, Uzbek citizens have reported very dire conditions in hospitals and quarantine centers.
A roundup of COVID-19 developments in RFE/RL's broadcast regions.
People are lining up outside pharmacies in Central Asian countries, only to find a lack of medicines, rising drug prices, and little help from the government.
As Central Asia is battered by COVID-19 and economic headwinds, China finds growing opportunities to expand its already formidable influence in the region.
Despite hundreds of million in aid from abroad, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan have all seen spikes in cases of the virus in recent weeks.
Bulgaria's Plamen Bobokov has hired a U.S. lobbying firm as his home country's prosecutors investigate him on charges some say are politically motivated.
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