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In separate protests, workers across various fields have demanded better pay amid rising prices.

There is wariness, though, particularly in Kyrgyzstan, about jobs and ethnic tensions.

As the Georgian government entertains the idea of allowing Russia to resume direct flights, Washington and Brussels have issued warnings about complying with international sanctions.

Tbilisi says the war will not derail plans to buy subway cars from Russia with European money.

Officials in Moscow and their allies in Abkhazia and South Ossetia all canceled meetings with international diplomats brokering the discussions, casting the future of the talks into question.

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A leadership election in Georgia's biggest opposition party has shown that informal rule may be a more widespread problem in the country than previously thought.

This time, the two countries are rowing over the provision of arms and the possible resumption of air travel between Russia and Georgia.

The two countries hope improved ties will massively boost bilateral trade to $2 billion annually.

Bishkek is now suffering with some of the world’s worst air pollution.

Three years ago, Moscow's unilateral flight ban was intended to shock Georgia. Now many Georgians dread the resumption of air connections.

Brussels notes some "progress" toward addressing its conditions for membership candidate status. But no one knows how much will be enough.

Space for independent journalism has been shrinking over the past year.

The surviving popularity of the komuz as a living instrument, rather than a museum artifact, and the flourishing tradition of Kyrgyz folk music is in no small way thanks to Malik Alikeyev, who died on January 17.

Chinese buses have survived corruption scandals to become the most obvious alternative to ubiquitous but problematic minibuses.