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Conversations have focused on key roads and access to remote settlements.

Critics worry, though, that the surge in interest for this period is an attempt by Uzbekistan's ruling authorities to legitimize themselves.

Azerbaijan is angry about France's sale of hardware and weapons to its rival Armenia. It's been quiet so far on Georgia's role in facilitating the transaction.

Armenia has broken a major taboo by forging defense ties with France and the U.S.

Vagif Khachatryan, a 68-year-old veteran of the First Karabakh War in the early 1990s, pleaded not guilty but was convicted of crimes including "genocide."

Russian state TV aired an hour-long falsehood-laden program attacking the Armenian prime minister.

Armenia is increasingly keen on Western mediation while Azerbaijan prefers to see the issue settled with the participation of regional powers like Russia and Turkey.

An Uzbek government delegation is expected to travel to Afghanistan by the end of the year.

The Tajik government is described by the site as having created conditions ideal for the success of the Islamic State group.

Armenia doesn't trust Azerbaijan's recent actions and rhetoric indicating that it's deprioritizing its ambition for a corridor through Armenia to its exclave Nakhchivan.

At present, around one-third of the border remains undefined.

The two countries, whose relations have long been strained, are now working together on a transit corridor and discussing normalizing their relations.

The decision comes amid the mass exodus of Armenians from Karabakh and after the arrest by Azerbaijan of one of the region's most prominent former officials.

The airports have lain largely idle since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Russian diplomacy and Turkmenistan's evolving foreign relations amidst president Berdymukhamedov’s growing influence. And more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.