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A better-connected GBAO would benefit Dushanbe and Beijing, but could change the face of a unique region.

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.

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.

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

Tashkent is reducing subsidies and phasing out exports to meet rising domestic demand.

Journalists from Tajikistan played vital roles for many foreign news agencies.

An Afghan official blames the Ukraine war for choking the banking system in Central Asia, but the fact remains the Taliban regime is broke.