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Zarif and Pashinyan

Iran seeks new role in post-war Caucasus

Joshua Kucera Jan 28, 2021
Tehran’s foreign minister has made a tour of the region, where Russia and Turkey have become the dominant outside powers since the autumn war, leaving little room for Iran.

Tajikistan: Writing for the president is on the wall (and then scrubbed off)

Jan 25, 2021
Predictions of an imminent revolt may be wishful thinking.

China gradually opens its markets to Central Asia

Dirk van der Kley Jan 25, 2021
Regional governments are eager for job-creating export industries, especially in agriculture. Market access gives Beijing more leverage than debt ever could.
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Kyrgyzstan: Japarov sworn in as president, pledges justice and prosperity

Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Jan 28, 2021
He says his objectives can be met only after constitutional reforms.

Kazakhstan: Government’s war on NGOs claims more victims

Almaz Kumenov Jan 27, 2021
Nur-Sultan appears spooked by events in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan.

Despite drop, China maintains edge as Uzbekistan’s top trade partner

Jan 27, 2021
Russia remains a close second, though.

Armenia eschews lockdown, but enjoys COVID reprieve

Ani Mejlumyan Jan 27, 2021
Analysts believe the country may be benefiting from herd immunity after devastation last year.

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Gold mine

Following war with Armenia, Azerbaijan gains control of lucrative gold mines

Ani Mejlumyan, Ulkar Natiqqizi Jan 27, 2021
The losses to tax revenues will hit the de facto Nagorno-Karabakh government even harder than Yerevan.
Turkmen manat

Turkmenistan: Hands across the water

Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Jan 26, 2021
The way the state uses its heavy hand to condition the fate of the economy does not inspire hope for promised market reform.

Armenia & Azerbaijan at war

Kelbajar

In Karabakh deal, as many questions as answers

Armenian soldiers collect bodies in Shusha

In Armenia and Azerbaijan, families of missing in action turn to Facebook

Dadivank

Perspectives | Now comes a Karabakh war over cultural heritage

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China in Eurasia

Dushanbe No. 2 thermal power station

COVID and the new debt dynamics of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

Kyrgyz MFA handout

Kyrgyzstan's China debt: Between crowdfunding and austerity

More welcome last year (Eurasianet archive)

Poll shows Uzbeks, like neighbors, growing leery of Chinese investments

read more about China's heft in Eurasia

Georgia

parliament

Election clashes, COVID deepen crisis in Georgia

all photos by Giorgi Lomsadze

Georgia’s park of runaway trees

Giorgi Shakarashvili’s teammates (FC Saburtalo)

The murder that has shaken Georgia

news from Georgia

Visual Stories

Nurulla, 16

In limbo for a generation: Photos of Azerbaijan’s displaced

Bir Bol

Kyrgyzstan: Where electioneering fantasies and harsh reality meet

Yerablur Cemetery

Photo essay | Armenia rallies

men digging in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Film | Bukhara: People Live Here

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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