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An update on recent developments in China-Central Asian affairs.

Xi offers a helping hand in developing Central Asian political parties.

The scale of the country's methane emissions is becoming a major embarrassment, but the government seems unwilling to do anything about it. This and more in this week's Akhal-Teke bulletin.

A bulletin of recent developments in Chinese-Central Asian affairs.

Loyalty to Moscow, U.S. umbrage at Iran's arms supplies, coronation and soccer. And more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.

Officials are interested in renewables on paper, but there is little evidence Ashgabat is committed to minimizing the environmental damage it is causing. Our weekly briefing.

Turkmenistan is at last willing to discuss its full-blown water crisis. Our weekly briefing.

And can Central Asia’s poorest countries benefit from their new importance to Russia without suffering secondary sanctions?

Alexander Zhadan served as a gatekeeper and provided counsel, all while acquiescing to the crackpot megalomania that gripped both the presidents he served. Our weekly briefing.

Death in the family, U.S. visitors come visiting, pointless election results, and the sad lot of Turkmen women. Our weekly briefing.

Elections that don’t matter, Russia sows paranoia, and trouble upstream for Turkmen farmers: Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The canal across northern Afghanistan will divert water from the dying Amu Darya river.

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

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.

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