On this week's Majlis Podcast, RFE/RL media-relations manager Muhammad Tahir moderates a discussion on what has been happening in Turkmenistan recently and if any of these events signal a change in the country's future.

Sadyr Japarov completed his amazing rise from a prison cell in early October to being elected Kyrgyzstan's president in January. What has changed since then?

On this week's Majlis podcast, we discuss the plight of lawyers in Central Asia, where being an independent attorney willing to defend people in court is often a hazardous occupation.

How might the new Biden administration change policy toward Central Asia? What might the Central Asian states be looking for from the Biden administration? And what aspects of U.S.-Central Asian relations are likely to remain the same?

Two elections -- in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. RFE/RL's Media-Relations Manager Muhammad Tahir moderates a discussion looking at what happened -- and what might come next.

How did the five countries fare in 2020 and with various vaccines being developed and gradually being made available internationally, how does 2021 look for Central Asia?

This week's Majlis Podcast discusses Kazakhstan's approaching parliamentary elections and what has changed and what looks the same under a different president.

Voters in Kyrgyzstan are heading back to the polling stations on January 10 as the country will hold both a presidential election and a referendum deciding the form of government: presidential or parliamentary.

Under President Shavkat Mirziyoev, Uzbekistan has made some progress in the four years addressing the long list of rights violations that came to characterize the government under Mirziyoev's predecessor, Islam Karimov. But while some hail what they see as major breakthroughs, others see it as small and slow change.

On this week's Majlis podcast, a discussion about what changes are taking place in Central Asia to address the scourge of gender violence, and some of the challenges that still lie ahead.