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China spikes Gazprom gas export plan in Central Asia

Apr 16, 2025

Russian energy company keeps gushing red ink.

Tajikistan: Rogun Dam project going under microscope

Apr 11, 2025

World Bank’s financing role facing scrutiny.

US strikes mineral deals with Uzbekistan – Tashkent report

Apr 10, 2025

Nuclear energy cooperation also in play.

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Turkmenistan to introduce simplified procedures for obtaining visas

Apr 16, 2025

New rules seen as part of wider opening to trade opportunities.

Tajik opposition files international lawsuit accusing government of crimes against humanity

Apr 15, 2025

Court decision likely years in making.

Uzbekistan: Chasing tourist dollars

Apr 14, 2025

Tashkent planning major passenger jet purchases.

Central Asian states join World Health Organization effort to eliminate tuberculosis

Apr 10, 2025

Region also grappling with measles outbreak.

Left to right: Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, Georgian Dream Honorary Chairman Bidzina Ivanishvili, and President Mikheil Kavelashvili. Georgia’s authoritarian leadership is taking new steps to cut off revenue streams to the country’s non-profit and independent media sectors. (Photo: gov.ge)

Georgia: Government seeks control over foreign assistance to non-governmental sector

Irakli Machaidze Apr 15, 2025

Independent media outlets confronting potential death blow.

The Afşin-Elbistan B coal-fired power station in Turkey’s Kahramanmaraş Province. Turkey is the largest coal-fired electricity producer in Europe. (Photo: gov.tr)

Commentary: Turkey attempting to balance carbon interests and green ambitions

Ata Turkoglu Apr 14, 2025

Ankara’s COP31 hosting bid at crossroads.

Central Asia

President Trump holds a chart as he announces new tariffs on April 2. (Photo: The White House)

Measuring impact of US tariffs on Central Asia and South Caucasus

Kazakhstan’s announcement on April 2 about the discovery of more than 20 million metric tons of rare earth deposits, if verified, would give the nation the world’s third largest reserves of rare earths. (Photo: gov.kz)

Kazakhstan makes bombshell announcement in advance of Central Asia-European Union summit

An innovator in Uzbekistan presents a more efficient wind turbine generator technology. (Photo: gov.uz)

Central Asian start-ups attracting growing interest from venture capitalists

(Photo: Kazimierz Popławski, kazimierzpoplawski.pl, CC BY-NC 2.0)

South Caucasus deemed “low exposure” zone in terms of vulnerability to climate change – UN study

Tea Tsulukiani, the head of a newly established investigative commission with a mandate to investigate political activity from 2003-2012, the timeframe when UNM and its leader, Mikheil Saakashvili, held power. (Photo: gov.ge)

Georgian government weaponizes history with aim of banning opposition

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan looks into the camera while presenting his Real Armenia program. (Photo: primeminister.am)

Armenia: Pressure increasing on Pashinyan

A Chinese-made electric bus in Baku. (Photo: gov.az)

Commentary: Addressing China’s growing electric vehicle footprint in Azerbaijan

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev (left) meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at an SCO event in Kazakhstan on July 3, 2024. The Uzbek government wants to maintain a sense of strong domestic support for its “all-weather strategic partnership“ with China, but the initial effort to reassure Uzbeks did not appear to stem the social media-driven discontent. (Photo: president.uz)

Social networks in Uzbekistan buzzing with criticism of Chinese economic practices

The Khorgos Gateway dry port on the Chinese-Kazakh border. Trade with Kazakhstan accounted for nearly half of China’s turnover with Central Asian states in 2024. (Photo: gov.kz)

China enhances position as Central Asia’s economic overlord

By some estimates, Rosatom has captured half of the global nuclear energy market. (Photo: gov.ru)

Commentary: Russia winning contest over nuclear energy sector and supply chains

Vladimir Kara-Murza makes the sign of the cross at the place of Boris Nemtsov’s death in Moscow. (Photo: Michał Siergiejevicz via Wikipedia, Feb. 27, 2021, CC BY 2.0)

History will not absolve Putin, prominent Russian dissident asserts

Timur Suleimenov, the head of the National Bank of Kazakhstan, stated in his letter to Kazakh PMs that the regulator is not inclined to pressure commercial bankers to loosen up their rules. (Photo: gov.kz)

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