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Georgia's security service interrogated the three Serbian trainers before allowing them to go home (Facebook; Georgian Security Service)

Georgia claims US contributes funds to coup preparations

Giorgi Lomsadze Oct 3, 2023
Two weeks ago, the Georgian government said a coup was being plotted for this fall. Now it claims the U.S. is helping fund it.

Armenia scrambles to accommodate uprooted Karabakhis

Fin DePencier, Katia Galati Sep 29, 2023
By this point, most of Karabakh's residents have fled and are now in Armenia. Some of them plan to move further on.

Nagorno-Karabakh Republic disbands as Azerbaijan arrests its ex-officials

Heydar Isayev Sep 28, 2023
The decision comes amid the mass exodus of Armenians from Karabakh and after the arrest by Azerbaijan of one of the region's most prominent former officials.
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Tajikistan: Authorities use relatives as pawns against exiled activists

Oct 4, 2023
Government proxies have ceased to pretend the practice isn't ubiquitous.

Azerbaijan arrests more ex Nagorno-Karabakh leaders

Oct 4, 2023
Three former presidents of the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic were reportedly detained and taken to Baku in a single day.

Kyrgyzstan: MPs give president power to overturn court rulings on moral grounds

Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Sep 29, 2023
Parliament is a pale version of its former self and now largely does the president's bidding.

Uzbekistan: President demands swift investigation into huge Tashkent blast

Sep 28, 2023
At least one person was killed as a result of nighttime explosion.

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Berdymukhamedov, far right, at a meeting of presidents of Germany and Central Asian nations. (Photo: Turkmenistan government website)

Turkmenistan: Father and son

Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Oct 3, 2023
Berdymukhamedov the elder's insistence on stealing his son's limelight makes it hard to know who is truly running the country. This and more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.
Dushanbe is, like all other Central Asian capitals, seeing a major construction boom. (Photo: Eurasianet)

EurasiaChat: Intrigue in Central Asia's ruling palaces

Alisher Khamidov, Aigerim Toleukhanova, Peter Leonard, EurasiaChat Oct 2, 2023
In the latest edition of EurasiaChat, impressions from Tajikistan, Russian soft power, Turkmen foreign policy, and tales of elite infighting.

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Kok-boru match before things went south. (Photo: Kyrgyz presidential administration)

EurasiaChat: The rough with the smooth in Kyrgyzstan

Members of the Afghan business delegation arriving in Astana earlier this month. (Photo: Kazakhstan government website)

EurasiaChat: Doing business with the Taliban

A quiet one on Issyk-Kul: This popular tourist attraction is getting more tense and hectic these days. (Photo: Danil Usmanov)

EurasiaChat: Sanctions bind, tourism tensions, and naming struggles

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Environmental Reporting

The Gadabay (Gedabek) gold mine in western Azerbaijan (Anglo Asian Mining)

Azerbaijan temporarily closes gold mine run by UK-registered company

Experts say the migratory fish arriving at Georgian shores in the coming months will need to be tested for contaminants (Nini Gabritchidze)

Officials, experts seek to calm Georgians' Black Sea safety fears

Police are controlling all movement in and out of Soyudlu after the protest (Facebook; Abzas Media)

Crackdown on environmental protest in Azerbaijan sparks outrage

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China in Eurasia

Chief military prosecutors of China and Uzbekistan meet in Beijing in late July. (Photo: gov.uz)

Central Asia: China strives to shape Belt and Road-related media coverage

The visiting PM unveiled a bust of Georgia's most famous poet at Beijing Language and Culture University (Facebook; Georgian government)

"Strategic partnership" between Georgia and China puzzles critics

An Uzbek delegation tours a JAC Motors plant during a mid-July visit to China. (Photo: qashqadaryo.uz)

China exploring biotech, scientific and manufacturing possibilities in Central Asia

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Visual Stories

Smart city Arkadag is a purely top-down exercise in urbanization. (Photo: Turkmen government website)

The new cities of Central Asia

A man sorting through trash at the Bishkek landfill. (All photos by Danil Usmanov)`

Kyrgyzstan: Garbage-mountain nightmare to make way for recycling future

Boys heat their classroom.

Photo essay: Life in Karabakh under blockade

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