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Our Kazakhstan correspondent describes the waiting, the bureaucracy, and the anticlimax of getting his Sputnik V jab in Almaty.

Vaccine uptake, the latest case surges, and related news from Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

The health minister then drank the concoction at a press conference.

Laborers in the extractive industries are proving more adept at fighting their corner.

The group's alleged leader was an Egyptian national teaching Arabic at a local state-run university.

The president's family has a monopoly on tickets, cashing in on a profound desperation.

Although Turkmenistan is rarely mentioned as a prospective member of the Moscow-led EAEU trading bloc, that notion is quite obviously on the Kremlin’s mind. Our weekly briefing.

Delinquent debtors are being offered a way off bad credit blacklists.

Only a tiny fraction of the population has got the jab so far.

A government stimulus has helped the moneyed invest and driven up property prices.

The timing of the new legislation recalls recent reporting that cast the president in an unfavorable light.

The president gets another title, ignores soaring food prices, starts a charity, and pens a ditty to his favorite city. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Yet another fashionable slogan means nothing when it’s needed most.

New pressure from Washington will make China look even closer at Central Asia.

The number of flights is still highly limited for the time being, however.