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

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

Feb 6, 2025

A fine commodity in an uncertain market.

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

Feb 3, 2025

Inflation fueling changes in dietary patterns.

Georgia and Kyrgyzstan suspected of being auto suppliers for Russia, trade data indicates

Brawley Benson Jan 31, 2025

Giving used-car salesmen a bad name.

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Uzbekistan: The poverty rate continues to plunge

Feb 6, 2025

But are the impoverished being undercounted?

Kazakhstan: Village-to-city migration reaches record high in 2024

Feb 6, 2025

Almost two-thirds of Kazakhs now live in urban areas.

Uzbekistan: Where reforms can put on Janus face

Feb 4, 2025

Officials mull measure to create prison population of lectiophiles.

Armenia trying to get Azerbaijan back in negotiating mode

Feb 3, 2025

Yerevan makes modest tweaks in negotiating stance.

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

Feb 5, 2025

Report stops short of assigning blame or identifying source of objects that disabled the plane.

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

Feb 4, 2025

Kyrgyz bank is latest entity to join US sanctions list.

Central Asia

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

Water management infrastructure on the Kazakh side of the Aral Sea. The Kazakh government Aral revival plan centers on achieving efficiencies in water management and accumulation. (Photo: gov.kz)

Water level is rising in Kazakhstan’s portion of Aral Sea

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

Imedi TV presented the burning of an effigy of Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili by protesters as a “satanic ritual” of burning a coffin containing a likeness of Jesus Christ. (Screenshot)

Opinion: The West needs to take a hard look at Georgian Dream’s propaganda operation

Azerbaijani medical professionals participate in a training conducted by WHO specialists with the support of USAID Azerbaijan in 2023. The Azerbaijani government has barred USAID from conducting activities in Azerbaijan since June 2024. (Photo: WHO, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO)

Trump Administration’s arrival doesn’t mean automatic reset for US-Azerbaijani relations

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

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

Russian exiles debate ways to influence events in their homeland

Putin meets with Chechen siloviki during a visit to Chechnya in August 2024. Putin has little incentive to tangle with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, given the Kremlin’s strategic needs of keeping Chechnya calm. (Photo: kremlin.ru)

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

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

Central Asia

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

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

Water level is rising in Kazakhstan’s portion of Aral Sea

Caucasus

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

Opinion: The West needs to take a hard look at Georgian Dream’s propaganda operation

Trump Administration’s arrival doesn’t mean automatic reset for US-Azerbaijani relations

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China enhances position as Central Asia’s economic overlord

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

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

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Russian exiles debate ways to influence events in their homeland

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