So, where I live there is basically 0 news coming from the Stan countries and frankly I often forget they exist lol

I don’t know why but I suddenly thought about them today, and I wondered how life has been there since the fall of the Soviet Union and how life is like over there right now. Did market reforms hit them heavy as well? Did neoliberalism find its way into the countries? Did they manage to block foreign influence to a certain extent?

Any comrade who can help me out with this?