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Termez at a crossroads. (Photo: Eurasianet)

Uzbekistan: Afghan troubles keep border city on edge

Aug 18, 2021
Termez is normally a sleepy place, but the Taliban's ascendancy has put some on edge.

Central Asia scrambles for clear response as Afghanistan crisis spills over

Kamila Ibragimova Aug 16, 2021
Eurasianet sources say dozens of planes from Afghanistan have landed in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan over the last 24 hours.

Turkmenistan: Out at sea

Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Aug 17, 2021
With the Taliban at the border, the president heads in the other direction to oversee defense operations on the Caspian Sea. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
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Uzbekistan: Social media personality reportedly arrested for insulting president

Aug 18, 2021
Kalonov was placed in a psychiatric facility in 2013 for calling the late president a thief.

Armenia’s new parliament starts with squabbles

Ani Mejlumyan Aug 18, 2021
The new opposition has vowed to oppose the ruling party as if it were the enemy, and the latter is trying to forbid the former from insulting it.

Georgia warily watching Afghanistan's collapse

Giorgi Lomsadze Aug 17, 2021
Georgia’s huge contributions to the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan were a key part of its strategy to join the West. Now there are fears about an isolationist turn from Washington.

Amid wave of femicides, Azerbaijan’s feminists come under attack

Heydar Isayev Aug 17, 2021
Azerbaijan’s feminist movement is small, but it has received an outsized public backlash for a campaign calling attention to the state’s responsibility to prevent domestic violence.

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Zahir Aghbar. (Photo: Eurasianet)

Interview: Afghanistan’s ambassador to Tajikistan rejects Taliban rule

Kamila Ibragimova Aug 18, 2021
Aghbar has pledged his allegiance to the self-declared caretaker president and Taliban foe, Amrullah Saleh.
Kazakh lab

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan experiment with vaccines amid lack of public confidence

Aug 16, 2021
Central Asia’s largest nations are using unique coronavirus vaccines that haven’t been carefully studied. Do they have a choice?

Post-war Armenia & Azerbaijan

The road to Artsvashen (Heydar Isayev)

Fate of ex-Soviet exclaves uncertain in the wake of Armenia-Azerbaijan war

Armenia’s main north-south highway zigzags across the Azerbaijani border. (photo: Joshua Kucera)

In southern Armenia, warily sizing up the new neighbors

(Azerbaijan Railways)

Armenia and Azerbaijan suspend “corridor” talks

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China in Eurasia

computer plugs

Will Kazakhstan reap fruits of China’s crypto crackdown?

Ashgabat water

Chinese researchers calculate Central Asia’s water waste, agriculture potential

Xinjiang victim portraits

China hounds Xinjiang data collectors

read more about China's heft in Eurasia

Georgia

protests in Tbilisi

Perspectives | Dam protests demonstrate bankruptcy of Georgian politics

Davit Gareja (Kris Duda/Flickr)

Georgian cartographers accused of “selling” a slice of the homeland

Bank of Georgia

Modern-day “Robin Hood” inspires Georgians drowning in debt

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Visual Stories

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Villagers in shadow of Kyrgyzstan dam incensed by Uzbekistan deal

men digging in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Film | Bukhara: People Live Here

Chinese flag (all photos by Danil Usmanov)

Kyrgyzstan: Waiting and loathing on the Chinese border

Yerablur Cemetery

Photo essay | Armenia rallies

The Aral Sea photographed by a U.S. government satellite on August 21, 1964 (public domain)

Northern Aral's promise stunted by dam height, international disputes

A Bishkek cemetery with a dedicated area for those who died of COVID-19 (All photos by Danil Usmanov)

Watching Kyrgyzstan’s coronavirus crisis: A photographer’s journal

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