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The severity of the penalty highlights anxieties felt by the authorities since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.

In this week's podcast, we also discussed the phenomenon of undocumented migration to the U.S. and another perennial: worsening human rights.

Our weekly update on recent developments in Chinese-Russian-Central Asian affairs.

Officials say that it will make government spending more transparent

Environmental activists are skeptical of government assurances that a large tract of forest won't be turned into a privately managed hunting preserve.

It was a price rise of this fuel that led to nationwide unrest in 2022.

The murder of a 14-year-old girl by a man who considered her his wife has shone light on the problem of child marriage among Georgia's ethnic Azerbaijani community.

Our weekly update on recent developments in Chinese-Russian-Central Asian affairs.

New legislation will place stronger requirements on lenders to ensure people taking out loans are able to pay back.

Azerbaijan is angry about France's sale of hardware and weapons to its rival Armenia. It's been quiet so far on Georgia's role in facilitating the transaction.

After briefly forcing a happy face over a historic development for their country, Georgian politicians are back at each other's throats.

Armenia has broken a major taboo by forging defense ties with France and the U.S.

Kuandyk Bishimbayev is said to have had a long history of assaulting his wife.

Iraq gas deal, talking to Washington on TAPI, old hands possibly on the way out. This and more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.

In Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, governments are at work taking over important assets. Also in this edition of the EurasiaChat podcast, we talk about how the Gaza war is being viewed.