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China offers to help with defense, TAPI inches forward, and the old president asks for a vacation. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The future shape of Sino-Turkmen cooperation is going to be one of Serdar Berdymukhamedov’s biggest challenges. This and more in our weekly briefing.

ISKP is reaching out to minorities in Afghanistan and their ethnic cousins in post-Soviet Central Asia.

The dauphin becomes president. This and more in our weekly briefing.

Both are seeking to get ambitious transportation projects off the ground.

The president-in-waiting plans to change nothing. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Dushanbe says the volume of illegal narcotics it interdicted in 2021 increased by 69 percent year-on-year.

Kabul still owes Dushanbe $27 million in unpaid bills.

Komilov has urged the international community to show more flexibility toward the Taliban regime.

Power exports continue as payment arrears mount.

Turkmenistan’s president dreams big. Reliance on China remains strong. And Russia drops a bombshell. This and more in our weekly briefing.

As the president readies the public for yet another year of shortages, he has taken money from an economic stabilization fund to breed more horses. This and more in our weekly briefing.

In our weekly briefing: The Taliban visit Ashgabat, the dauphin is received by Uzbekistan’s president, and authorities tighten control after unrest in neighboring Kazakhstan.

A power outage illustrates in stark terms how much leverage Uzbekistan enjoys over its troubled neighbor to the south.

Turkmenistan continues to face challenges, but there is little chance that the solutions will become any less hapless in 2022 under Berdymukhamedov’s tutelage.

Despite Ashgabat’s fervent diplomacy, one ingredient is missing from its dream project across Afghanistan. Our weekly briefing.

The embassy says it refuses to give back the cash.

The Islamic State in Afghanistan is using the Taliban’s cozy relations with Uzbekistan as propaganda fodder.

The conscripts, generally Tajikistan’s poorest young men, are brutalized into service. And they are the country’s first line of defense.

As hopes for an Afghanistan gas pipeline fade again, there is more upbeat news to the west.

Letters from Washington, cybersecurity cooperation with China, and negotiating with a bankrupt Taliban. This and more in our weekly briefing.

Uzbekistan says it will not accept Afghan refugees.

Since the Taliban took Kabul, Islamic State sympathizers across South Asia have increased attacks on the movement over its ties to China.

Arbitrary collective punishment, breadlines before dawn, and a resurgence of diplomacy. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Over 180 Afghan students who became trapped when the Taliban took power have finally resumed their studies in Bishkek.