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Aliyev showing his scalps (photos from president.az)

Perspectives | Azerbaijan’s authoritarianism and Baku’s “Military Trophies Park”

Bahruz Samadov Apr 16, 2021
The new park reflects the logic that dominates Azerbaijan’s system: enemies, internal and external, must be destroyed.

Georgia’s pensioners hamstrung by crippling debt

Giorgi Lomsadze Apr 14, 2021
Paradoxically, Georgia’s poorest citizens – its elderly – have the easiest access to credit. But there is a catch.

Central Asia courts green energy investors

Rebeka Foley  Apr 15, 2021
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are eager, but investors are cautious.
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Kyrgyzstan: President prescribes poison root for COVID-19

Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Apr 16, 2021
The health minister then drank the concoction at a press conference.

Central Asian journalists examine the "silent killer" of smog

Apr 16, 2021
On some days, Bishkek’s air is over 30-times worse than the World Health Organization deems safe.

Kyrgyzstan: National-patriots attack women’s rights rally

Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Apr 15, 2021
Police looked on as the clash occurred.

Thaw and frost across Central Asia’s borders

Apr 14, 2021
A mood of goodwill is being soured by a running battle of words between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which also have long-standing border disagreements.

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Lukashenko and Aliyev

Azerbaijan fires info war salvo against Russia

Joshua Kucera Apr 16, 2021
After previously denying it, Azerbaijan now says that Armenia fired Russian-made rockets during last year’s war. And now they’re trying to make things difficult for Moscow.
Production of the Sputnik V vaccine in St Petersburg, Russia (IMF Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

Dashboard: Vaccinating Eurasia - April

Apr 16, 2021
Vaccine uptake, the latest case surges, and related news from Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

Armenia & Azerbaijan at war

Sadikov with President Ilham Aliyev last June. (president.az)

The mystery of Azerbaijan’s missing army chief

An Iskander missile in Russia in 2018. (Russian Defense Ministry)

Post-war report: Pashinyan misfired with insult of Russian missiles

Gold mine

Following war with Armenia, Azerbaijan gains control of lucrative gold mines

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China in Eurasia

Radishes Tashkent

China gradually opens its markets to Central Asia

Lake Balkhash in April 2003 (NASA)

China’s water use threatens Kazakhstan’s other big lake

Tokayev and Xi

After tentative start, Kazakhstan is obliterating Xinjiang activism

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Georgia

UNM arrest

Georgian authorities arrest opposition leader

Davit Gareja (Kris Duda/Flickr)

Georgian cartographers accused of “selling” a slice of the homeland

Bank of Georgia

Modern-day “Robin Hood” inspires Georgians drowning in debt

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Visual Stories

men digging in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Film | Bukhara: People Live Here

Chinese flag (all photos by Danil Usmanov)

Kyrgyzstan: Waiting and loathing on the Chinese border

Yerablur Cemetery

Photo essay | Armenia rallies

Nurulla, 16

In limbo for a generation: Photos of Azerbaijan’s displaced

The Aral Sea photographed by a U.S. government satellite on August 21, 1964 (public domain)

Northern Aral's promise stunted by dam height, international disputes

A Bishkek cemetery with a dedicated area for those who died of COVID-19 (All photos by Danil Usmanov)

Watching Kyrgyzstan’s coronavirus crisis: A photographer’s journal

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