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In our weekly briefing: doing business with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Plus, it’s reprimand season.

Vaccine hesitancy in Uzbekistan is high, bred by social media conspiracies that seem credible in a country without accountable authorities.

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

The journalist faced not only the customary bureaucratic hurdles, but even alleged sexual harassment from an individual possibly linked to the security services.

One hundred years after the Red Army established the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, residents are ambivalent about its meaning.

Many in the territory blame the rising numbers of coronavirus cases on the authorities’ decision to open up to Russian tourists.

As coronavirus cripples the territory’s tourism season and Russia has stopped sending aid, Abkhazia faces a 10 percent GDP decline this year.

The apology or recantation is uploaded to social media. Often, there is a pretense of the repentance being voluntary. But that is not always the case.

Most foreign leaders stayed away, but Putin’s Central Asian crew is a dependable lot.

Part 1 of a 3-part series.

Mahalla councils were co-opted for purposes of population control in Soviet times. Coronavirus is giving them a new mission.

The vote went ahead in spite of the global coronavirus outbreak; although Abkhazia hasn’t recorded any cases, election officials took pains that the disease couldn’t be spread by voting.

The isolation of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh have served them well as the disease spreads all around them.