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Already battling double-digit food inflation, a deep freeze threatens to destroy winter crops across Central Asia.

Kyiv has long taken a pro-Azerbaijan position vis-a-vis the conflict with Armenia. Now officials say that Armenia and Russia are using the blockade to try to steal attention from Ukraine.

Armenia sees the new EU mission as a force for peace and security, but there is no buy-in from Azerbaijan or Russia.

Almost 17,500 government employees are being laid off.

Three years ago, Moscow's unilateral flight ban was intended to shock Georgia. Now many Georgians dread the resumption of air connections.

This latest winter energy crisis is undermining public confidence in the administration of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

Brussels notes some "progress" toward addressing its conditions for membership candidate status. But no one knows how much will be enough.

Space for independent journalism has been shrinking over the past year.

The surviving popularity of the komuz as a living instrument, rather than a museum artifact, and the flourishing tradition of Kyrgyz folk music is in no small way thanks to Malik Alikeyev, who died on January 17.