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Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 05:51
Drug enforcement officers in Uzbekistan have burned 1.4 tons of drugs, as Central Asia's most populous nation attempts to curb the flow of narcotics from neighboring Afghanistan.
Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 05:50
The militant group Islamic State does not currently see Central Asia as an area of interest for expansion, a new report by the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) says.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 06:22
Press freedom in Armenia has come under direct attack by police in Yerevan -- with accredited journalists being beaten and detained, and their equipment destroyed.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 06:34
Russia saw its biggest loss of democracy in a decade last year, while it and other authoritarian states took aggressive action to block efforts to form new democracies elsewhere in Europe and Eurasia, a new report by Freedom House finds.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 06:32
Armenian police used force and water cannons to clear a demonstration in central Yerevan overnight after a standoff with activists protesting against rising electricity prices.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 05:22
Social networks including Facebook, YouTube, and Odnoklassniki are inaccessible in Tajikistan following the release of a second video showing a former commander of Tajik special police forces who has defected to the Islamic State.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 06:34
The human rights situation in Central Asia has actually grown noticeably worse, and even Kyrgyzstan has recently been the subject of a number of appeals and reports from rights groups.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 06:18
Ismayilova published a letter in The New York Times on June 11 to mark the opening of the first-ever European Games. Two days later, state news media were distributing what purported to be the same letter, but differs wildly from Ismayilova's original.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 05:54
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said crackdowns on human rights in Central Asia could backfire by encouraging extremism.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 05:55
A jailed Azerbaijani journalist says the country is in the "midst of a human rights crisis" as it gets set to host the first European Games.