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

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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.

Tashkent is eager not to be seen as endorsing anti-war positions.

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

Many see the adoption of Georgia's "foreign agent" legislation as a definitive geopolitical turn away from the West.

Georgia's ruling party cites the U.S. in defense of its controversial bills on foreign agents, but critics argue the nation is learning from the worst.

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

While the government insists it is trying to stop the spread of disinformation, press freedom advocates see a familiar attempt to control the message.

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.

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.

Plus: Rising gender-based violence in Kyrgyzstan

The expectation is that gas consumption will soar to 40 billion cubic meters by 2030.