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Turkmenistan needs food staples and energy-rich Kazakhstan is, surprisingly, short of gas. The mechanics of a deal and more in our weekly briefing.

Readers are asking if YouTube has fully restored Eurasianet’s access to the platform after Turkmenistan got us briefly banned. Not entirely. For the record, here’s where things stand.

Turkmenistan has a two-track plan to increase trade with the outside world. Our weekly briefing.

Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing: Berdymukhamedov goes traveling and lectures the WHO, while YouTube bows to Turkmen censors and takes down Eurasianet’s channel.

That sets them apart from Afghanistan’s other post-Soviet neighbor, Tajikistan.

In our weekly briefing: doing business with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Plus, it’s reprimand season.

Chinese students abroad say they are under constant surveillance from their peers.

The 30th anniversary of independence was evidently not deemed an appropriate time for future planning. All the focus was instead on the past.

Ashgabat has pursued a notably distinct line in its engagements with the Taliban. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Cotton quotas, measuring COVID mortality from space, and the dauphin takes on the economy. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

While clumsy on COVID-19, Turkmenistan is being more sure-footed, or consistent at least, on the Afghanistan front. Plus, unsustainable agriculture. Our weekly briefing.

While encouraging educational exchanges and agricultural innovation, Washington's first ambassador to Turkmenistan found government suspicion overwhelming.

The victims of state-sponsored disappearances include the families who wake up every day uncertain, missing a loved one whose fate is not known.

The government signals it is taking COVID a bit more seriously, without admitting the virus is running rampant. And Ashgabat gets down to business with the Taliban. This and more in our weekly briefing.

Turkmenistan is embracing the Taliban takeover next door and refusing to get involved in humanitarian operations. This and more in our weekly briefing.