Majlis

On November 8, violence broke out at the Khujand prison in Tajikistan’s northern Sughd region. Why?

Every year, some of the best and brightest in the field of Central Asia studies gather for the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) conference. The Majlis was there.

RFE/RL has just released a 10-part documentary film called Not In Our Name, which looks at some of the people from Central Asia who went to Syria and Iraq to join extremist groups there.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit Uzbekistan on October 18-19. Uzbekistan’s relations with Russia were often poor during Islam Karimov’s 25 years as president. Some are wondering just how far new President Shavkat Mirziyoev can take this new relationship.

When Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov signed the order eliminating the free water, gas, and electricity the government has provided to citizens for more than 25 years, he said it was because the economy was so strong.

Uzbekistan’s new president, Shavkat Mirziyoev, promised that he would end the practice of using forced labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields. The latest Majlis podcast looks at how much Mirziyoev’s government has fulfilled this promise.

A video posted on the Internet has rekindled a long-running debate in Kyrgyzstan, and more generally in Central Asia, about women's rights and the role of women in contemporary Central Asian societies.

Representatives of the Tajik government and members of banned Tajik opposition groups came to the OSCE's annual Human Dimension Implementation Meetings (HDIM) in Warsaw this last week.

This week's Majlis Podcast discussed China's heavy-handed campaign in the western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

In this latest Majlis podcast, we return to the subject of Chinese influence in Central Asia, specifically Chinese economic influence.