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Expanded oil production from the Tengiz field is one of several major factors boosting Kazakhstan, the largest economy in the region. (Photo: gov.kz)

EBRD offers favorable economic outlook for Central Asian states

Oct 6, 2025

Strong consumer demand, rising wages and remittances help drive growth.

Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan expanding nuclear energy programs

Sep 30, 2025

Public input may be part of the process.

US Congressman keeps finding ways to rattle Tbilisi

Sep 26, 2025

A single-minded quest to restore Georgia to a democratic path.

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Quick Hits #16: A roundup of recent developments in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Oct 6, 2025

Tidbits that will help keep you in the know.

Armenia engaging all major players to build new nuclear plant

Oct 3, 2025

Economics, not politics will guide final choice.

US-Uzbek business deals keep coming

Oct 2, 2025

Latest agreements aim to speed Uzbekistan’s ‘green’ transition.

State Department human trafficking report notes slight improvement in some Central Asian states

Oct 1, 2025

Georgia deemed only Eurasian state doing decent job in combatting trafficking.

The Toktogul hydropower plant generates up to 40 percent of Kyrgyzstan’s electricity, but the low water level in the reservoir that feeds it could mean a hard winter awaits the country this year, the energy minister warned last month. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Low reservoir water levels mean tough winter for hydro-dependent Kyrgyzstan

Alexander Thompson Oct 3, 2025

Energy minister says government taking measures to prevent blackouts.

A rally in Tbilisi against Georgian Dream authoritarian ways and in support of EU membership. (Photo: facebook.com/zourabichvilisalome)

Georgian government announces plan to outlaw political opposition

Irakli Machaidze Oct 1, 2025

While Moldova celebrates pro-EU victory, Georgia shuns Europe.

Central Asia

The Kyrgyz parliament, the Jogorku Kenesh, voted unanimously September 25 to dissolve itself. Elections will likely be held sometime around November 30, a year ahead of schedule. (Photo: Alexander Thompson/Eurasianet)

Kyrgyzstan to hold early parliamentary elections

Kara-Batkak in August is now blackened in places. (Photo: Aigerim Turgunbaeva)

Melting Kara-Batkak Glacier highlights looming water woes

Children clap at the opening of a new school in Kyrgyzstan’s Chuy Region on September 1. Central Asian states are struggling to build enough schools and train enough teachers to keep pace with rapidly growing populations. (Photo: gov.kg)

‘Like herring in a tin:’ Central Asian states grapple with school overcrowding amid education reforms

Georgian Interior Minister Geka Geladze shakes hands with Chinese Minister of Public Security Wang Ziaohong during a recent meeting in China. (Photo: police.ge)

Georgian Dream tightening the screws on political environment

Passport control at Tbilisi International Airport. Entering Georgia is now an uncertain proposition for those deemed by the authoritarian-minded Georgian Dream government as undesirable or potential troublemakers. (Photo: gov.re, screenshot)

Exhausted and exasperated: my experience as an entry-refusenik at the Georgian border

A protest in Tbilisi in 2024 against the controversial ‘foreign agents’ law and in support of close ties with the European Union. EU officials gave the Georgian government until August 31 to address concerns about the country’s political direction, but Tbilisi reportedly fell far short of satisfying EU recommendations. (Photo: Jelger Groeneveld, CC BY-ND 2.0, n9.cl/c0vurq)

Georgian government defying European Union

Uzbekistan is going to add 22 Dreamliners to its already sizeable fleet of Boeing jet airliners. (Photo: Dejan Milinkovic via Wikipedia)

Trump touts deals with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan worth billions

US State Department official Brendan Hanrahan (right, center) seen here meeting with Armenian Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan on September 12. (Photo: mineconomy.am)

Armenian transit corridor gets initial financial infusion

Salome Zourabichvili, who asserts she remains Georgia’s legitimately elected president, seen here testifying as a witness at the US Helsinki Commission hearing on September 10. (Credit: US Helsinki Commission, video screenshot)

US congressional measure to punish Georgian Dream government at risk of failure

AEM Spetsstal, Rosatom’s engineering division, has started producing elements of Uzbekistan’s first nuclear power plant, but Tashkent may be trying to hedge its bets in case the deal with Russia falls through. (Photo: AEM Spetsstal)

Uzbek leader wants to expand nuclear cooperation with China

Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev speaks at an SCO summit event in China on September 1. Azerbaijan figures centrally in several simmering disputes and rivalries among SCO states. (Photo: president.az)

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the thin veneer of unity

China has captured nearly 12 percent of Georgia’s EV market in just a couple of months. (Photo: BYD Georgia)

As Georgia’s electric vehicle market grows, China powers ahead

Russia’s Labor Ministry intends to introduce stricter quotas starting in 2026 on foreign workers in a variety of economic sectors. One such sector, construction, would see the foreign worker quota reduced to 50 percent from the present 80 percent. (Photo: mos.ru)

Commentary: Need and loathing in Russia: unpacking the labor migration paradox

Maxim Kuzminov (right), a Russian military helicopter pilot who embarrassed the Kremlin by defecting to Ukraine in 2023, was murdered in Spain in 2024 in an assassination that is suspected of being carried out via cooperation between Russian intelligence agents and mobsters. (Photo: gur.gov.ua)

Examining the Kremlin – organized crime connection

Russian and Iranian leaders Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian shake hands in January 2025 after signing a strategic partnership agreement. Now some in Tehran question the agreement’s value. (Photo: kremlin.ru)

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