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Our weekly update on recent developments in Chinese-Russian-Central Asian affairs.

The severity of the penalty highlights anxieties felt by the authorities since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.

In this week's podcast, we also discussed the phenomenon of undocumented migration to the U.S. and another perennial: worsening human rights.

Our weekly update on recent developments in Chinese-Russian-Central Asian affairs.

Officials say that it will make government spending more transparent

Critics worry, though, that the surge in interest for this period is an attempt by Uzbekistan's ruling authorities to legitimize themselves.

It was a price rise of this fuel that led to nationwide unrest in 2022.

Civil society is limited in its ability to help by official reluctance to register NGOs.

Our weekly update on recent developments in Chinese-Russian-Central Asian affairs.

New legislation will place stronger requirements on lenders to ensure people taking out loans are able to pay back.

Armenia has broken a major taboo by forging defense ties with France and the U.S.

Kuandyk Bishimbayev is said to have had a long history of assaulting his wife.

Iraq gas deal, talking to Washington on TAPI, old hands possibly on the way out. This and more in this week's Akhal-Teke Bulletin.

The 19-year-old said he wrote the remarks in a moment of immaturity, but that was not enough to spare him prison.

In Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, governments are at work taking over important assets. Also in this edition of the EurasiaChat podcast, we talk about how the Gaza war is being viewed.