This week’s podcast was dedicated to the increasingly horrific human rights situation in Tajikistan.

A summit of Caspian Sea littoral states is set for August 12 in Kazakhstan’s port city of Aktau. It is the fifth such summit, but this one is the big one.

This week's Majlis podcast looks at the worsening economic situation in Turkmenistan

Governments in Central Asia continue to use, and some would say abuse, the right to appeal to international law enforcement agencies to apprehend citizens of Central Asian states who have fled their homeland.

Several officials from former Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev’s administration are under investigation and Atambaev’s last prime minister, Sapar Isakov, and a former mayor of the capital, Kubanychbek Kulmatov, were taken into custody on June 5. Some feel Atambaev might be next.

Last year was Shavkat Mirziyoev’s first year as Uzbek president. Will his second year bring significant change to the policy of forced labor in the cotton fields?