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Tajikistan: As Russia cracks open gate, rush for air tickets ensues

Apr 9, 2021
The president's family has a monopoly on tickets, cashing in on a profound desperation.

Dashboard: Vaccinating Eurasia - April

Apr 9, 2021
Vaccine uptake, the latest case surges, and related news from Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

Karabakh’s airport still waiting for takeoff

Ani Mejlumyan Apr 8, 2021
Following last year’s Armenia-Azerbaijan war, officials said there would soon be passenger flights at Stepanakert’s long-closed airport. Now that looks again like a distant prospect.
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Kazakhstan: NGOs let off tax penalty hook

Almaz Kumenov Apr 8, 2021
The penalties were levied before the elections, and reversed now that the elections have passed.

Kyrgyzstan: As another young woman is murdered, anger and frustration escalate

Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Apr 8, 2021
Aizada Kanatbekova joins a growing list of deaths caused in part by police inaction.

Kazakhstan bolsters protections for rare animal species

Almaz Kumenov Apr 7, 2021
It is hoped populations of leopard, tigers and wild horses could return to Kazakhstan.

Armenian ex-president acquitted

Ani Mejlumyan Apr 6, 2021
This appears to be the end of the two-year legal saga of Robert Kocharyan. Now he says he’s going back to politics to challenge his political nemesis, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

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Twisting the screws: Post-War Report

Joshua Kucera Apr 9, 2021
Azerbaijan has been playing hardball with Armenia over the prisoners it continues to hold. But with a botched POW release that wasn’t, Armenia has weakened its position all by itself.
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Turkmenistan: End of the road for the roaring growth myth?

Peter Leonard Apr 7, 2021
The scale of the current crisis may be making IFIs rethink their long-standing policy of uncritically relaying Turkmen government data.

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

read more about China's heft in Eurasia

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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