On May 13, Uzbek troops opened fire on protesters in the Ferghana Valley city of Andijon, killing several hundred civilians. The crackdown marks the latest escalation in the repressive rule of President Islam Karimov, who—despite longstanding criticisms of his human rights record—has positioned himself as a U.S. ally in the...

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On May 13, Uzbek troops opened fire on protesters in the Ferghana Valley city of Andijon, killing several hundred civilians. The crackdown marks the latest escalation in the repressive rule of President Islam Karimov, who—despite longstanding criticisms of...

Roman Vasilenko, the press secretary at the embassy of Kazakhstan, must rue the day he first heard about the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as the Kazakh character Borat.

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Havinga debate on this subjectcould stop us from doing--or not doing--something that our collective national conscience would later regret.