Podcast: Majlis - Radio Free Europe / Radio Libert‪y‬ Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

This week, Muhammad Tahir moderates a discussion on a new luxurious resort built outside Tashkent allegedly for the use of the president, who it belongs to, and what is now being said about it inside Uzbekistan.

On this week's Majlis podcast, a discussion on the human rights situation in Kazakhstan. Despite promises made by President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev, some say the situation is getting worse, not better.

On this week's Majlis Podcast, RFE/RL media-relations manager Muhammad Tahir moderates a discussion on what has been happening in Turkmenistan recently and if any of these events signal a change in the country's future.

Sadyr Japarov completed his amazing rise from a prison cell in early October to being elected Kyrgyzstan's president in January. What has changed since then?

On this week's Majlis podcast, we discuss the plight of lawyers in Central Asia, where being an independent attorney willing to defend people in court is often a hazardous occupation.

How might the new Biden administration change policy toward Central Asia? What might the Central Asian states be looking for from the Biden administration? And what aspects of U.S.-Central Asian relations are likely to remain the same?