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Financial pressures force Azerbaijan’s last bastion of independent media to suspend operations

Feb 14, 2025

Meanwhile, Baku acts to curtail Russian propagandists.

US Energy Department offers fresh figures on Caspian Basin energy reserves & production

Feb 11, 2025

A comprehensive overview of the regional energy sector.

Azerbaijan and Russia back at it over downing of civilian jetliner

Feb 10, 2025

Name-calling and truculence mark latest exchanges.

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Tajikistan aspires to be an AI development hub

Feb 13, 2025

Magical thinking from a parallel universe.

Football team’s travel woes suggest deeper economic problems in Turkmenistan

Feb 12, 2025

Berdymukhamedov’s pet project feels squeeze.

Armenia: Refugee children missing out on education – UNICEF report

Feb 11, 2025

Many also in need of mental health services.

Media advocacy group highlights damage done by State Department-USAID funding freeze

Feb 10, 2025

Exiled Russian independent outlets in especially tough spot.

Pashinyan promotes new ideology to guide Armenia’s geopolitical transformation

Feb 13, 2025

Opposition coming from three directions.

Law enforcement officers speak with a citizen during an event in Kazakhstan in 2024 aimed at “improving citizens’ legal awareness and reducing corruption.” Kazakhstan is one of the few countries in Eurasia that have made notable improvements in combatting corruption in recent years. (Photo: gov.kz)

Armenia, Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan showing progress in fighting graft – watchdog survey

Feb 12, 2025

Widespread persistent corruption threatens effective climate action.

Central Asia

Food prices kept inching up in Caucasus and Central Asia in 2024 – World Bank report

Kazakhstan: Authorities aren’t joking about prosecuting satirical social media channel

Emomali Rahmon with his son and heir-apparent Rustam Emomali. (Photo: Rustam Emomali’s official Facebook page)

Tajikistan: Personnel reshuffle creates glide path for dynastic transition of power

Mikheil Kavelashvili, the Georgian Dream-installed president, addresses the Georgian parliament on February 4 with many seats empty as opposition party MPs boycott the legislature. On February 5, the parliament, packed exclusively with Georgian Dream members, voted to revoke the mandates of 49 MPs who represented three of the four opposition parties. (Photo: gov.ge)

Georgia: Pliant parliament acting swiftly to throttle democratic practices

Pashinyan speaks at the Atlantic Council on February 4. (Photo: primeminister.am)

Analysis: Armenian prime minister sells his ‘peace agenda’ in Washington

Azerbaijan: Historic area of capital faces demolition threats to make way for parks

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

Jackson-Vanik repeal expectations are based on comments made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his confirmation hearings earlier in January at which he described the amendment as “an absurd relic of the past” and expressed a commitment to improving trade relations with Central Asian states. (Screenshot)

Trump administration likely to pursue steady US trade course in Central Asia

The official launch of the project on December 27 was purely ceremonial, and construction is not expected to start till July 2025 at the earliest. (Photo: president.kg)

China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway officially launched, but sidetracked at least until summer

Kazakh officials at the scene of the Azeri plane crash in Aktau on December 25. Kazakhstan released a preliminary report on the incident on February 4. (Photo: gov.kz)

Kazakh preliminary report on jet crash backs Azerbaijani assertions of accidental Russian shoot-down

Kyrgyz Prime Minister Adylbek Kasymaliyev (second, left) and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Mishustin meet in Moscow on January 31. (Photo: gov.kg)

Kyrgyzstan resists Russian pressure to give sanctions-busting firms lenient treatment

Prominent Putin critic Ilya Yashin speaks during a panel discussion on January 16 in Vienna. (Video screenshot)

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