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Central Asia’s most populous country is keen on the Green Card lottery, but low returns stoke demand for alternatives.

Casting himself as a whistleblower, the businessman, who died in October, never comes clean about whether his hands ever got dirty.

Turkmenistan’s new leader receives an American official while his father visits Putin. And Ashgabat doubles the number of blocked websites. Our weekly briefing.

Dushanbe apparently began producing Iranian drones under license earlier this year.

Nancy Pelosi is the highest-ranking American official ever to visit Armenia, and it came at a critical time during the country’s conflict with Azerbaijan.

The figures can be found in major American retailers, like Whole Foods.

A group of ruling party MPs claims to have gone rogue to speak the “truth” about the country’s relations with the West.

The U.S. embassy’s decision not to visit Shusha followed soon after its reappointment of a representative to the Minsk Group, a body Baku has declared “dead.”

Ashgabat wants Afghanistan to become part of the global economy. It’s not so keen to bankroll integration, however.

The unprecedented attacks on Georgia’s Western partners have drawn rebukes from Brussels and Washington.

The U.S. is pressing companies to show vigilance over export control evasion attempts.

Recent moves toward restoring relations with Armenia’s traditional enemies have run into strong resistance from the global diaspora. But will it make a difference?

Foreign Minister Wang Yi used a visit to Central Asia to talk about the United States. But his counterparts wanted to talk business.

Russia had again been complaining about U.S.-funded labs in Armenia. Now Yerevan is cutting off some biosecurity cooperation with the Americans.

When Tajik activists get into trouble, their Western partners “stand by mutely.”

Out-of-touch elites, poor planning, and some signs of progress in regional trade. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The government would prefer Muslims to stick to a secular-leaning, state-sanctioned version of the faith.

Ovalbek Turdakun’s passage from Kyrgyzstan to the United States was helped by two members of Congress.

Dushanbe is dependent on Russia and indebted to China. Will the IMF come to the rescue?

Sanctions on Russia will help Uzbekistan’s GM plant meet demand at home.

A former American ambassador to Kazakhstan examines lessons learned since first visiting the country weeks after independence.

The government sees fracking as a solution to realizing its ambitious vision for the gas industry.

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

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

The dispute over where the former Georgian president should be treated became sharper as he briefly lost consciousness as a result of his hunger strike.