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In our weekly briefing: The Taliban visit Ashgabat, the dauphin is received by Uzbekistan’s president, and authorities tighten control after unrest in neighboring Kazakhstan.

The Moscow meeting was the launch of negotiations between the two countries, whose border has been closed since 1993.

Fresh succession talk, energy breakthroughs with Iran, eyeing Kazakhstan. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Many object that the CSTO didn’t aid Armenia when it asked for help, and pointed at the irony of the current government coming to power as the result of street protests.

The Russia-led security bloc will be sending peacekeeping forces, the first time in its history that its collective security provision has been exercised.

It would be the most concrete step yet in restoring ties between the two sides, whose border has been closed for nearly three decades.

Eric Zemmour’s visit was largely unnoticed in Armenia, but French Armenians accused him of trying to use the country’s conflicts for his own Islamophobic purposes.

The Armenian government has come under fire for appearing to discredit as “deserters” the dozens of soldiers still in captivity.

The International Court of Justice declined, however, to order more concrete measures related to Armenian prisoners and maps of land mines in Azerbaijan.

There was much to discuss just over a year after the end of the war, including ongoing border tensions, plans to reopen borders and transportation, and the fate of Armenian prisoners.

The unfinished structure was the result of a brief period of direct Roman control over Armenia in the second century CE.

Serzh Sargsyan’s lawyers said the timing of the charges was suspicious, coming amid a period of bad news on the border with Azerbaijan.

Repeated attempts from Baku to force Yerevan to negotiate may be having the opposite effect, as the government is now vulnerable to being seen as easily bullied.

At least 15 Armenian soldiers, and an unknown number of Azerbaijanis, have been killed in the worst fighting since last year's war.

In a slow economy, real estate deals are moving fast. It may be because property is seen as a steady investment in turbulent times.