

Uzbekistan pursues dialogue with Afghanistan on fraught canal project
Turkmenistan: Slow boat to Awaza
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Mar 21, 2023
Election choreography, backwards reasoning, and the government tries to justify wasting billions on empty megaresorts. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
Armenia embarks on healthcare reform with costs unclear
Arshaluis Mgdesyan Mar 23, 2023
Details are sparse on how the government plans to pay for the reform, and how it plans to improve the quality of care in parallel.
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Nini Gabritchidze Mar 24, 2023
Before her visit, the top diplomat spoke about "attempts to divert the country from its pro-European course."
International diplomacy picks up amid rising fears of violence in Karabakh
Joshua Kucera Mar 24, 2023
The U.S. and Russia have both made high-level contact with Armenian and Azerbaijani officials as the rhetoric from Baku is getting increasingly bellicose.
Why Kazakhs are growing less satisfied with life, and Kyrgyz more
Mar 23, 2023
Every unhappy country is unhappy in its own way.
Major hydropower project caught up in Georgia's "foreign agent" turmoil
Nini Gabritchidze Mar 23, 2023
The ruling party says Western-funded NGOs aided what it called Russia-sponsored protests against the construction of a hydropower plant.
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Deaths of Islamic figures highlight political and religious divide in Azerbaijan
Mar 24, 2023
There were widely different reactions to the passing of the cleric and the Islamic activist, who were on opposite sides of the political spectrum.
