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Turkmenistan is at last willing to discuss its full-blown water crisis. Our weekly briefing.

In the years before independence, Stepnogorsk had become a key node in Moscow’s biological weapons program and uranium industry. Now it is one of many Kazakh provincial towns framed by its Soviet legacy.

Can safety protocols be maintained in a poor country like Kyrgyzstan, where corruption is rampant?

A joint venture with China has edged Kazatomprom, the world’s largest producer of uranium, into the nuclear fuel production cycle.

Russia is proposing a major reconfiguration of the Central Asian gas market. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The steel giant is on the hook for a multi-million dollar fine as officials ramp up grumbling about the company.

For all its billions spent, China still controls only a small share of Kazakh oil output.

Uzbek natural gas production will also receive Saudi investment.

Kazakhstan says it expects to produce up to 13.5 million tons of wheat this year.

Greenpeace found radiation levels three times higher than earlier reported by the IAEA.

Bad weather and a Russian export ban have set Kyrgyzstan up for another lean year.

Tokayev says he is going to make it easier for more political parties to get registered.

The prime minister promised to do business differently. But he owes Moscow.

A former American ambassador to Kazakhstan examines lessons learned since first visiting the country weeks after independence.

International sanctions against Russia will provide some unanticipated upside developments for Turkmenistan. This and more in our weekly briefing.