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

Top Georgian MPs went to Budapest to sweet-talk Viktor Orbán ahead of the EU's expansion summit.

Conversations have focused on key roads and access to remote settlements.

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

The ruling party's chairman gloated that the main opposition party has split into "Bolsheviks and Mensheviks."

The first session of the kurultai as a permanent state body is due to take place next month.

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.

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

Turkmen officials deny women's rights are trampled, but evidence suggests otherwise. Iran is making overtures. This and more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.

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.

Armenia is eager to develop ties with all countries in its bid to reduce its dependence on Russia. But with Iran, things are complicated.

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.