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The new launchpad is designed to accommodate more environmentally safe craft.

Turkmenistan is busily engaging with neighbors. Plus: Dancing diplomats and the president’s nephew liquidates a dodgy scheme after journalists exposed him. Our weekly briefing.

A charismatic, handicapped singer has gone viral, triggering appearances with Russian superstars and a member of the ruling family.

The country no longer has a choice, the president says.

The question of whether Uzbekistan should join the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union, with its single market of 184 million people, has provoked fierce debates.

Kazakhstan is moving through the production cycle, powered by Chinese demand.

Officials blame an 8 percent spike in consumption on crypto miners from China.

A struggling economy and defeat in last year’s war appear to be driving large numbers of Armenians to leave the country.

More than a fifth of Tajikistan’s total population has entered Russia so far this year.

Prices in Kazakhstan closely track those in Russia.

Local IT experts say the plan ignores their talents and risks handing sensitive data to Russia.

Kyrgyzstan has sent a delegation to the Taliban, while neighbor Tajikistan flirts with the Afghan resistance.

The project is intended to partially bridge the language knowledge gap with Russian.

Kazakhstan’s energy needs are overwhelmingly served by burning dirty coal.

Can the former president, in exile for 16 years, help the government's case that a major foreign investor has played dirty from the start?