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And U.S. officials have been touring the region chiding countries for failing to prevent Russian sanctions-busting.

The signs of solidarity and resilience shown by Ukrainians were evident in the decade leading up to the war, but the Kremlin ignored the evidence.

Armenia's exports to Russia are booming – but the country's producers aren't benefiting.

At least one leading financial services company is cutting back its exposure to Russian nationals.

Turkmenistan is at last willing to discuss its full-blown water crisis. Our weekly briefing.

Armenians have appealed to Russia, which is supposed to provide security on the road, as Baku tightens the noose around the territory's population.

Russia is hurting close allies, fueling frustration with the Eurasian Economic Union, or EAEU trade bloc.

In the years before independence, Stepnogorsk had become a key node in Moscow’s biological weapons program and uranium industry. Now it is one of many Kazakh provincial towns framed by its Soviet legacy.

New rules and other restrictions have mainly affected hunters, by very far the mainstay of Kazakhstan’s firearm market.

Death in the family, U.S. visitors come visiting, pointless election results, and the sad lot of Turkmen women. Our weekly briefing.

E-commerce companies are actively exploring options for building logistics sites in Kazakhstan.

Ever since the start to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, anything with the slightest whiff of separatism in Kazakhstan has elicited a harsh crackdown. Except this time.

Moscow’s food-safety concerns tend to mirror ups and downs in political relations with source nations.

It has already started importing from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan this year.

The full-year target to deliver up to 1.5 million tons on this route may be missed, however.

Elections that don’t matter, Russia sows paranoia, and trouble upstream for Turkmen farmers: Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Russian officials and propagandists had several reactions to the recent crisis in Georgia: gloating, echoing the Georgian government's rhetoric, and casually threatening to bomb Tbilisi into the ground.

Armenians had been using the road to bypass a blockade on the main road, the Lachin Corridor. The move drew a rare rebuke from the Russian peacekeepers.

The U.S. and Russia have both made high-level contact with Armenian and Azerbaijani officials as the rhetoric from Baku is getting increasingly bellicose.

Kazakh traders have been helping fill Russian demand for high-tech consumer goods and other items hard to obtain under Western sanctions.

Kyrgyz authorities do not want pollsters or journalists to probe public opinion about the war.

Tashkent is eager not to be seen as endorsing anti-war positions.

It was unclear on whose behalf the former secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was visiting, and what it portended for Armenia’s geopolitical orientation.

Armenia is moving away from the Russia-led bloc and perhaps opening the door to closer cooperation with the West.

Media have been warned against giving anti-war Russians a platform.