Armenia embarks on healthcare reform with costs unclear
Perspectives | Licorice and leather: Spotting Chinese soft power in rural Uzbekistan
To many Uzbeks, China is not only an industrial behemoth with neocolonial intentions. It is also a source of scarce jobs.
Azerbaijan launches multi-day tours of Shusha
The resettlement of the key Nagorno-Karabakh town is due to start this year as well.
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Every unhappy country is unhappy in its own way.
Major hydropower project caught up in Georgia's "foreign agent" turmoil
The ruling party says Western-funded NGOs aided what it called Russia-sponsored protests against the construction of a hydropower plant.
Event | Activists hopeful UN conference will catalyze water action in Central Asia
The initiative strives to get more women in the room when water-management decisions are made.
Kazakhstan: Ruling party dominates single-mandate races
By one count, at least 23 out of 29 of the single-mandate district seats have been won by Amanat.
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Kazakhstan poised to intensify vetting of re-exports to Russia
Kazakh traders have been helping fill Russian demand for high-tech consumer goods and other items hard to obtain under Western sanctions.
Turkmenistan: Slow boat to Awaza
Election choreography, backwards reasoning, and the government tries to justify wasting billions on empty megaresorts. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
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