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The rising cost of Russian work permits for Central Asians, Kazakhstan’s water crisis, Tajikistan seeks EU preferential trade status, and more.

Central Asian governments have become adept at transnational repression. Based on warrants from the Tajik government, Germany, Poland, and Belarus have this year extradited Tajik nationals to Tajikistan where they faced serious, and some say politically motivated charges. In Turkey, the situation for migrant laborers from Turkmenistan has become more complicated since the Turkmen government started paying closer attention to their activities. Joining host Bruce Pannier to shed more light on this...

Gulnara Karimova bought homes and a jet with funds obtained via bribery and corruption, a report says.

How Uzbek president’s daughter built a £200m property empire

Yilisen Aierken fled Xinjiang fearing he’d be sent to an infamous "reeducation camp" and applied for asylum in Ukraine. The outbreak of war has left him fleeing for his safety as his life is now in limbo again after entering Poland.