US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Uzbekistan and Tajikistan this past weekend. High on her agenda was the problematic issue of press freedom and human rights in the two countries. neweurasia’s Tomyris, however, wonders what may have been said — or not said — behind closed doors.

Criminals brought to justice.
This is an everyday tagline journalists write about when covering common-day societal happenings – and sometimes it’s a tagline that describes the injustice that swarms their own profession – particularly in Kyrgyzstan …

Institut d’Alisher Navoi, a Belgium-based non-profit think tank focused on Central Asian studies in Human Rights, Regional Security, Sustainable Development and Good Governance, released a call to the members of the Security Council that will …

Good news — sort of. Muhammad Yusuf Ismailov and Urunboy Usmonov have been found guilty, but with very commuted sentences. neweurasia’s Alpharabius reports. “The international community has succeeded in bringing sufficient pressure onto the situation to make the Tajik authorities rectify themselves,” he writes, “[But] in the end, this two-faced/face-saving sentencing just demonstrates further the weakness of the Tajik justice system.”

Long time award-winning American CNN journalist Larry King – the man of the Larry King Live show – visited Kazakhstan last week. With more than just oil on King’s mind – the world-renown broadcaster’s comment on ‘democracy’, and how …