Eurasianet

Once again, a new government is targeting the country’s most lucrative mine.

Baku has said it intends to restore the church to its “original” form. They haven’t said what that is, though, and Armenians haven’t been consulted. Our weekly Post-War Report.

Lower water levels threaten jobs along the river. Part 2 in a series by journalists from Uralsk Weekly in northwestern Kazakhstan.

The project threatens the delicate regional military balance.

When night fell, men demanded weapons, eager to go take up the fight. They snarled threateningly and called us "spies."

The roads for sea access seem to run through China.

Succession, rampant inflation, and the dear leader gets some exotic new pets. This and more in our weekly briefing.

Tajik authorities have only glancingly acknowledged the crisis.

Our latest from the border: Eurasianet correspondents on both sides report burned homes, raw anger and pings of occasional gunfire.