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

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.

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

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.

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

Production is falling as demand increases, forcing Uzbekistan to look to Russia for energy supplies.

Turkmenistan is looking to Gazprom to deliver new customers, at the risk of further eroding its independence. Our weekly briefing.

Our chief Caucasus correspondent reflects on the life and radically changing times of his father, who passed away last month.

Baku does not normally release such detailed information on the destination of its crude oil exports.

Local media have ignored a report by RFE/RL's Uzbek service about shady goings-on in the oil and gas sector.

The firm hopes to create a regional aviation hub just over the Kazakh border.