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The increases are directed toward military spending and construction in Karabakh, while social programs are comparatively neglected.

Expanding Ashgabat’s dependence on China, visiting Iran, and talking north-south transportation links. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Customs officials have admitted they may have a corruption problem.

A new book exposes the hollowness of many Western assumptions about China’s role in Central Asia.

Can customs data from either side be trusted?

Supporters are growing an online network in the Tajik language. Many of the donors appear to be in Russia.

Kazakh firms see an opportunity, but are tempering their enthusiasm for now.

BP, which operates the pipeline to Georgia's Black Sea coast, says the shutdown is temporary and that in the meantime all oil exports are being rerouted through Turkey.

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China-Europe cargo transport is shifting to the south, but infrastructure in the Caucasus is still relatively underdeveloped.

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

Religious mores, politics and the coronavirus have cast a shadow over one of the few Kyrgyz products China buys.

Bishkek is pinning its industrial hopes on a small Chinese company with no past. The opaque arrangement reflects how Kyrgyzstan’s government does business.

Europe is looking to sources like Azerbaijan to step in, but the country’s economy minister says it needs more international investment.

Will a railway connecting the two countries via Kyrgyzstan ever happen?

The last two meetings between the two countries’ leaders have been in Brussels. Moscow has noticed.