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Kazakh traders have been helping fill Russian demand for high-tech consumer goods and other items hard to obtain under Western sanctions.

Many worry the ruling party's rhetoric may give rise to uncontrolled right-wing violence.

Kyrgyz authorities do not want pollsters or journalists to probe public opinion about the war.

Tashkent is eager not to be seen as endorsing anti-war positions.

It was unclear on whose behalf the former secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was visiting, and what it portended for Armenia’s geopolitical orientation.

Armenia is moving away from the Russia-led bloc and perhaps opening the door to closer cooperation with the West.

The election of an independent ombudsperson through a transparent process was among the 12 conditions the country must fulfill to become an EU membership candidate.

Media have been warned against giving anti-war Russians a platform.

The Soviet-era constraint of collective decision-making seems to have eroded in Putin’s Russia.

Two days of unrest in Tbilisi put on display a widening gap in priorities between the government and the governed in Georgia.

Structural flaws in Georgia’s Western imported political institutions, most particularly in the system of elections, have consistently undermined the legitimacy of Georgia’s leaders.

Pipelines to Russia carried 94 percent of Kazakh oil exports last year.

The ruling party promised it would go through all formal procedures to defeat one of the bills, which already passed in the first reading. That will take more than 10 days though.

Many see the adoption of Georgia's "foreign agent" legislation as a definitive geopolitical turn away from the West.

Georgia's ruling party cites the U.S. in defense of its controversial bills on foreign agents, but critics argue the nation is learning from the worst.