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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand has illustrated Moscow’s shrinking regional role.

Is Turkmenistan preparing a city to name after the former president? Keeping out information and keeping in people. Our weekly briefing.

The same volunteer energies are also being used to crowdsource military kit.

Videos are emerging that do not support the Tajik government’s minimal statements about its border war with Kyrgyzstan.

Echoes of war drowned out talk of peace.

The geographical spread of the confrontations is causing alarm.

Days before Azerbaijan launched an assault against Armenia, Armenians began using a new, Azerbaijan-constructed road to travel between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.

Tension between the two sides has been exacerbated by continuing disagreement of the nature of a road that would connect the two parts of Azerbaijan through Armenian territory.

Relations with Russia and Uzbekistan. A new city rises in the desert. And the state struggles to measure its farmland. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.