Underground rapper Young Zapik's song Beautiful Girl In Hijab has gone viral in Uzbekistan, in opposition to the government's ban on women wearing Islamic head scarves in public.
A video posted to 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.
At least 25 people have been killed and 53 wounded in an attack on a military parade in southwestern Iran, the country's official IRNA news agency reported, prompting President Hassan Rohani to pledge a "crushing" response to threats against the country.
The Asian Development Bank has a program to help Central Asian states better provide energy to their populations through the use of renewable resources. But any conversion to greener, more affordable energy sources could threaten personal fortunes in Central Asia. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
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.
Catcallers in the Tajik capital might want to bite their tongue following the introduction of strict new measures against street harassment.
The imam of a Tashkent mosque has been relieved of his duties just hours after he posted a video appeal to the Uzbek president calling for greater religious freedom.
China is carrying out a "mass, systematic campaign of human rights violations" against its mostly Muslim Uyghur minority population, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.
Gas-rich Turkmenistan has inaugurated a refurbished and expanded Soviet-era power plant that it hopes will help it boost exports to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
China is defending its billions of dollars of investment in Pakistan, dismissing allegations the economic development program is pushing the cash-strapped South Asia ally into a “Chinese debt trap.”
One group that seems to have gained prominence since Shavkat Mirziyoev took over as Uzbek president: mob bosses. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
Kyrgyzstan defeated Uzbekistan 32 to 9 in the championship finals of kok-boru at the World Nomad Games in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, on September 7.
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