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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.

Details are sparse on how the government plans to pay for the reform, and how it plans to improve the quality of care in parallel.

Election choreography, backwards reasoning, and the government tries to justify wasting billions on empty megaresorts. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

As talks between Azerbaijan and Karabakh Armenians show little promise, Baku is putting out signals that a military escalation could be in the offing.

A similar probe into the large-scale hostilities of 2016 promised to address public concerns, but its findings were classified.

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

Israel is imminently poised to open a permanent mission in Ashgabat, 20 kilometers from the Iranian border. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Five were killed in the shootout, which occurred four days after the most public meeting yet between Azerbaijani and Karabakhi Armenian representatives.

Azerbaijan has identified a special representative to talk to the Armenians of Karabakh.

It’s been a year since the two countries signed what seemed like a landmark cooperation agreement. But their regular conflicts have not abated.

The Russian-Armenian billionaire’s tenure in Karabakh politics was brief and tumultuous, and there are plenty of people who wanted him out.

Armenians declared victory in the case, but Azerbaijan already denies that it is blockading the road to Karabakh and it's not clear how the ruling will be enforced.

Baku appears to be retreating from the grand vision of a corridor connecting the Turkic world for the sake of a more local strategic goal: cementing control over Karabakh.

Turkmenistan is looking to Gazprom to deliver new customers, at the risk of further eroding its independence. Our weekly briefing.

The government’s drive to secure the right to censor – and even shut down – the internet during martial law worries IT experts and human rights defenders.