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News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

The work of the Minsk Automobile Works has been discussed today at a meeting of the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, and the Council...

Martin Crawford-Brunt explores how to turn adversity into advantage and why we should all pay more attention to what our digital footprint says about us.

Violent attacks against non-Muslims in regions outside the capital Bishkek have continued in 2022 and into 2023, local Protestants told Forum 18. Officials refused to explain why perpetrators are not prosecuted and punished, and what is being done to stop such attacks. When such attacks happen, Protestants stated, "local believers are afraid to complain to the authorities" as "they are afraid of reprisals from the authorities and local mobs for complaining". "These are o...

Rothman proposes reforms similar to Levin's, but would make it even harder for the court to cancel laws, while softening changes to judicial appointments and 'reasonableness' test

For the first known time since February 2020, courts in 2022 fined five individuals several weeks average wages for trying to import religious literature. Border guards seized the books at Shymkent Airport and at a border crossing from Uzbekistan. A Shymkent Airport border guard insisted that his service had not imposed the two literature seizures at the airport and subsequent fines. "We didnt confiscate any books, we just took them away and handed them on to the police to be examined,&quot...

A Greek Catholic website and a YouTube interview with a Catholic priest are the latest religious items banned by courts as "extremist" and added to the Information Ministrys "Republican List of Extremist Materials". Deputy Information Minister Igor Buzovsky, who is also Deputy Chair of the "Republican Expert Commission for the Evaluation of Symbols, Attributes, and Information Products for the presence (or absence) in them of signs of Extremism", defended such bans....

After his last Mass in Grodnos Holy Redeemer Church on 27 December, Polish citizen Fr Jozef Geza left Belarus after 25 years service. Religious affairs official Aleksandr Rumak rejected his bishop’s request to extend the permission which foreign citizens need to conduct religious work. Rumak "wont comment" on his decision, his colleague Andrei Aryayev said. Last July, Rumak refused the latest request for permission for Fr Klemens Werth. A Russian citizen, he can therefore serve o...

Wear goggles. he could come through your eyes we have kids playing soccer and football. decriminalizing jaywalking is racist because too many black people are pulled over and find by racist cops which is just a despicable flaw. nurses do abortions? since when? because of youtube, they feel they can do it? remain a crime. they want to remove the social stigma around social work. since when is there a stigma around work? state control of the fast food restaurant business? they want everyone to get...

California will see several radical laws launch Sunday, January 1, including one making the state a "sanctuary" for "transgender kids."