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It has already started importing from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan this year.

Fully 40 percent of Kazakh-Chinese trade is accounted for by dealings with Xinjiang.

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

Spring is when unmarked uranium tailings are most vulnerable.

Every unhappy country is unhappy in its own way.

Kazakh traders have been helping fill Russian demand for high-tech consumer goods and other items hard to obtain under Western sanctions.

Kyrgyz authorities do not want pollsters or journalists to probe public opinion about the war.

Pipelines to Russia carried 94 percent of Kazakh oil exports last year.

Farmland and pastures across Central Asia are far less productive after decades of monocropping.

Deliveries had reportedly been expected to start March 1, but that deadline has come and gone.

Washington provided $25 million over the fiscal year 2022 to help Central Asia diversify trade routes and expand investment.

Priced out of Georgian cities by Russians fleeing conscription, many Ukrainian refugees have ended up in small, remote towns, where resources are few.

Beijing is leaning toward buying additional Central Asian gas, despite reliability concerns.

Though years behind schedule and stinking of corruption, the government wants to proceed with the Chinese-linked project.

Exports of Azerbaijani oil via the Black Sea were restarted but only temporarily, while exports of Russian crude oil through Azerbaijan have finally been halted due to EU sanctions.