At a recent virtual summit, India and five Central Asian countries decided to form joint working groups on Afghanistan and Chabahar port.

In recent weeks, both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have signed agreements with Afghanistan on energy supplies in 2022, despite unplanned outages.

With the arrival of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Central Asia looks to be heading into its fourth wave of pandemic. 

Among Russian officials, 2021 was a year of heightened sensitivity to the Russian language in Central Asia.

How did I do on my outlook for Central Asia 2021? 

Even financial compensation can’t lure Central Asian countries into accepting Afghan refugees.

After nearly three months in limbo in a Tajik sanitorium, a group of 191 Afghans, many U.S.-trained pilots, have been flown out of the region.

At the EU-Central Asia Economic Forum, the EU kept its rhetoric uncontroversial. However, Central Asian countries signaled they may respond well to more ambitious EU goals.

In its fourth year, the FemAgora festival adopts an unabashed cyberfeminist approach to activism.

Several reports in October underscore the persistent growth of Chinese security engagement in Tajikistan.

European leaders concerned with Afghanistan’s security situation may see Tajikistan as a useful partner to limit refugee flows to Europe.