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Catch up on the biggest events we covered this year.

Moscow is working to stop the West engaging in security dialogue with Central Asian states.

The embassy says it refuses to give back the cash.

State TV has smeared the victim of a police shooting as a hotheaded vigilante.

Efforts to stop border trade are causing ethnic Kyrgyz to abandon a remote southern region.

The Islamic State in Afghanistan is using the Taliban’s cozy relations with Uzbekistan as propaganda fodder.

The conscripts, generally Tajikistan’s poorest young men, are brutalized into service. And they are the country’s first line of defense.

Both sides have agreed to initiate a joint investigation into a recent police shooting.

At least three people have reportedly been killed by government forces to date.

There was much to discuss just over a year after the end of the war, including ongoing border tensions, plans to reopen borders and transportation, and the fate of Armenian prisoners.

Letters from Washington, cybersecurity cooperation with China, and negotiating with a bankrupt Taliban. This and more in our weekly briefing.

Uzbekistan says it will not accept Afghan refugees.

The recent fighting is a challenge to Moscow’s role as a peacemaker. But Russia may not have many options.

Relations between upstream and downstream Central Asian countries can be tense. This won’t help.

Since the Taliban took Kabul, Islamic State sympathizers across South Asia have increased attacks on the movement over its ties to China.