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

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.

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

Is political will enough to uproot a deeply engrained culture?

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are eager, but investors are cautious.

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

Economic maladministration is becoming harder to hide.

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.

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

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.