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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.

There is a gaping inconsistency between the president’s promises and how police treat activists.

Early results show the incumbent getting 81.3 percent of the vote against a field of no-name rivals.

Part of the mission is to ensure that Russians engage constructively with people in their new home.

The unique Islamic structures stand on the fringes of Georgian culture.

The incumbent’s absence from the debate will bear him no political cost. His five rivals will all lose soundly this weekend.

The rule change has drawn praise from nationalist circles.

Questioning the territorial integrity of the neighboring country, once a taboo topic, is increasingly entering official discourse both in Baku and Tehran.

Brussels says the Russian billionaire has supported people behind Putin’s war in Ukraine.

A new plant in the Atyrau province will provide work for more than 630 people.

Turkmenistan’s new leader receives an American official while his father visits Putin. And Ashgabat doubles the number of blocked websites. Our weekly briefing.

The EU demanded that Georgia “deoligarchize” as a condition of gaining formal candidate status. Parliament now is debating a law on how to get that done.

Masimov's detention has come in for criticism from a UN working group.

The president claimed “trained militants” were behind nationwide unrest in January. Ten months later, no evidence has come to light supporting his claim.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s team sees reelection with a sweeping mandate as the end to a transition that began in 2019.