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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.

Election choreography, backwards reasoning, and the government tries to justify wasting billions on empty megaresorts. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

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

While the country's authoritarian rulers are utterly indifferent to political freedoms, how the investment regime is perceived is another matter. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

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

Israel is imminently poised to open a permanent mission in Ashgabat, 20 kilometers from the Iranian border. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Priced out of Georgian cities by Russians fleeing conscription, many Ukrainian refugees have ended up in small, remote towns, where resources are few.

Beijing is leaning toward buying additional Central Asian gas, despite reliability concerns.

The teetering edifice of megalomania built around the Berdymukhamedov family should make it obvious how Turkmenistan is governed. Our weekly briefing.

Plus: Rising gender-based violence in Kyrgyzstan

A year after Russia’s invasion, a family that fled the occupation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant describes their escape to Georgia.

Turkmenistan is looking to Gazprom to deliver new customers, at the risk of further eroding its independence. Our weekly briefing.

Yet the final decision will depend on the 27 member states and their individual considerations.

Tightening internet controls as families desperately try to reach loved ones in Turkey, bogus economic performance figures, and Berdymukhamedov the elder visits the Gulf. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The firm hopes to create a regional aviation hub just over the Kazakh border.