Mansur Mirovalev
Monday, May 23, 2016 - 06:32
Tajikistan - the poorest ex-Soviet nation with a long and porous border with Afghanistan - announced on Monday the results of a constitutional referendum that makes the heavy-handed rule of President Emomali Rakhmon virtually unlimited, paves the way for his son's presidency, and outlaws "faith-based" parties.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 06:44
As his party triumphed in a snap parliamentary vote, Kazakhstan's ageing President Nursultan Nazarbayev said his oil-rich nation may become a parliamentary republic - apparently with his daughter at the helm.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 - 09:11
Bukhara was once a focal point on the Great Silk Road, a powerhouse of Islamic learning. It was also the capital of one of the world's oldest and most isolated Jewish communities that barely survived centuries of persecution and is now facing extinction because of an exodus to Israel and the United States.
Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 06:50
About 12,500 political prisoners in Uzbekistan - more than in the Soviet gulags at the height of the Cold War - are subjected to systematic torture: asphyxiation, electrocution, and beatings, human rights groups, former inmates, and researchers say.