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Loyalty to Moscow, U.S. umbrage at Iran's arms supplies, coronation and soccer. And more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.

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

While American officials have sought to emphasize the visa bans’ apolitical nature, that’s not how the announcement has been received in Tbilisi.

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

Georgian officials bristled at the move, which targeted "significant corrupt activity" in the judicial system.

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.

The Soviet-era constraint of collective decision-making seems to have eroded in Putin’s Russia.

Georgia's ruling party cites the U.S. in defense of its controversial bills on foreign agents, but critics argue the nation is learning from the worst.

Washington provided $25 million over the fiscal year 2022 to help Central Asia diversify trade routes and expand investment.

The court rejected Saakashvili's bid to get his jail sentence deferred on health grounds.

As the Georgian government entertains the idea of allowing Russia to resume direct flights, Washington and Brussels have issued warnings about complying with international sanctions.

Advocates say they’re emulating the best Western practices. Critics fear the inspiration comes from Russia.

Today hundreds of Georgians are sneaking into the U.S. from Mexico, but one Georgian who blazed that trail 20 years ago is now able to tell her story.

Disappointed with stagnation at home, Georgians are increasingly forging an illegal path to the United States.

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.