Majlis

How has Turkmenistan gone from the next Kuwait to a country where people wait in line for subsidized food?

On this week's show, RFE/RL Media-Relations Manager Muhammad Tahir moderates a discussion about religious freedom and the lack thereof in Central Asia.

On this week's show, RFE/RL media-relations manager Muhammad Tahir moderates a discussion about gender violence in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and why officials in those two countries seem unable to effectively combat it.

Since Uzbekistan's first postcommunist ruler died in 2016, the country has made attempts to improve its image as a serial rights abuser. So what has gone wrong in recent months?

On this week's Majlis podcast, host Muhammad Tahir and guests discuss the problems media outlets and journalists face in Central Asia.

On this week's Majlis Podcast, we discuss the drop in remittances to Central Asia, what this means for migrant laborers from the region and their families back home, and how long the current situation might continue.

This week's discussion focuses on Turkish-Central Asian ties and what Turkey's foreign minister was doing in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

This week, the podcast hosts a discussion on what has changed in the last year, the challenges that remain, and what is being done to bring gender equality to the region and end violence against women.

This week, Muhammad Tahir moderates a discussion on a new luxurious resort built outside Tashkent allegedly for the use of the president, who it belongs to, and what is now being said about it inside Uzbekistan.

On this week's Majlis podcast, a discussion on the human rights situation in Kazakhstan. Despite promises made by President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev, some say the situation is getting worse, not better.