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An influx of Russians has pushed up the value of the dram, undercutting Armenia’s exporters and the celebrated IT industry.

The country is already home to a substantial cult of personality to the former president. Now it’s going to get bigger.

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An uptick in violence and rising political tensions are calling attention to the fate of the sole road in and out of the breakaway territory.

The Russian president and several other post-Soviet counterparts are in Yerevan for a CSTO summit, at a time when many Armenians think the organization hasn’t been doing its job.

Plans to increase trade depend on new transport routes skirting Russia.

A highly touted deal between Baku and Brussels was meant to wean Europe off Russian gas. But is Azerbaijan now importing Russian gas itself in order to meet its obligations to Europe?

Moscow’s mobilization order exposed the absence of safety nets for students and other renters in Central Asia.

The EU’s foreign policy chief is the latest high-level Western official to visit Central Asia.

The steel giant is on the hook for a multi-million dollar fine as officials ramp up grumbling about the company.

Economists say the arrival of close to 100,000 Russians has spurred economic growth, but polls show things are not getting better for most Georgians.

The seashore at Buzovna, once one of Azerbaijan’s iconic landscapes, had been closed to regular people as beachfront property owners fenced it off. Now locals have managed to get some beach back.

With Karabakh’s fate in the balance, Ruben Vardanyan takes office while suggesting a new framework for coexistence: living “next to” Azerbaijanis, but not together.

Russia’s labor market is experiencing its worst shortages since 1993.

The organization has been facing accusations of political bias in its investigations (or lack thereof) into cultural heritage in Karabakh.