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Stepanakert residents queue for produce (photo: Ani Balayan)

As blockade drags on, Karabakh Armenians fear they’ll be squeezed out

Gabriel Gavin Feb 1, 2023
Dependent on outside aid and braced for renewed clashes with Azerbaijan, there are fears Karabakh Armenians might soon be forced out of the breakaway region for good.

Uzbekistan detains seven journalists in secretive raids

Jan 30, 2023
Authorities say that Telegram channels are at the heart of an investigation into extortion, but have offered few details.

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Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov Jan 31, 2023
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Talks between Georgia and breakaway regions under threat amid Ukraine war

Joshua Kucera Feb 2, 2023
Officials in Moscow and their allies in Abkhazia and South Ossetia all canceled meetings with international diplomats brokering the discussions, casting the future of the talks into question.

With temperatures dropping, Uzbekistan braces for flooding

Feb 2, 2023
The number of floods has been increasing with every passing year.

Baku – unofficially – blaming Iran’s government for carrying out embassy attack

Joshua Kucera Feb 1, 2023
There is a widespread belief in Baku that the attack may have been connected to Azerbaijan’s growing relationship with Israel.

Kazakhstan studies domesticating endangered saiga antelopes

Joanna Lillis Feb 1, 2023
Farmers complain that rebounding populations are encroaching on their pastures.

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Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov in the defendants' glass cage at the last day of the Nukus unrest trial. (Photo: Eurasianet)

Uzbekistan: Karakalpakstan trial ends with heavy sentence for accused ringleader

Jan 31, 2023
The authorities have sought to cast the trial as a model of transparency, but doubts linger as to its fairness.
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Turkmenistan: A kick in the gas

Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Jan 31, 2023
Moscow curries favor, neighbors seek more gas, and Turkmenistan’s colossal methane pollution could power Afghanistan at little cost many times over. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

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environmental reporting

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apples

Central Asia’s wild apple trees are disappearing

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China in Eurasia

Dushanbe Luban

China expands vocational training centers to Central Asia

Rahmon and Xi

The case against China at the ICC

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Tajikistan: The cost of Chinese debt

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