Uzbekistan: Classics Turned into Toilet Paper
Huge quantities of old books are being pulped as a result of decrees forbidding their export and ideological purges of the country's libraries.
Huge quantities of old books are being pulped as a result of decrees forbidding their export and ideological purges of the country's libraries.
Government officials are increasingly reluctant to open up to foreign media.
High-level talks with Moscow leader fail to meet Tajik expectations of Russian investment.
Crunch time as Ashgabat forces dual passport holders to choose to stay or leave the country.
New research reveals mass exploitation and enslavement of women farm workers.
Isolationist regime sacks thousands of professionals for being educated outside the country.
Resettlement programme in trouble as migrants ask to go back to their old homes in the mountains.
Turkmens are fed up with state television's obsession with President Niyazov
Central Asian republics need to adopt a more realistic approach to the troublesome war in neighbouring Afghanistan.
Naïve and desperate women in Kyrgyzstan are falling prey to the sex trade