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Doing business with Russia and Kazakhstan, reopening borders, and honoring the former president’s favorite horse. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Misogyny as government policy, neighborly outreach, and Russia tries hard to make Turkmenistan feel appreciated. Our weekly briefing.

Amid a food crisis, the president says food imports should be stopped. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Transkapitalbank has requested the U.S. Treasury let it continue to operate in Central Asia.

In our weekly briefing: Restrictions easing, COVID denialism persists, foreign suitors come visiting in hope of business, and the latest annual horse jamboree.

Arms sales and Erdogan’s tough-guy appeal have been part of the mix.

Serdar Berdymukhamedov has made his first consequential moves as Turkmenistan's president, offering hints of how he intends to rule.

A proposed gas pipeline to South Asia dominates the government’s agenda. This and more in our weekly briefing.

But Kazakhstan has more to lose.

The dauphin becomes president. This and more in our weekly briefing.

Local currencies rise and fall with the ruble.

International sanctions against Russia will provide some unanticipated upside developments for Turkmenistan. This and more in our weekly briefing.

The idea that the Eurasian Economic Union can help Moscow violate sanctions is exaggerated.

The president-in-waiting plans to change nothing. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

President Ilham Aliyev's visit to Moscow days ahead of Russia's invasion of Ukraine appears to have resulted in an agreement not to compete with one another on gas exports.