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Employers are now effectively required to demand proof of vaccinations from their workers. But the country’s health care system is now being pushed to the limit.

All the defendants are strident government critics, but their dissidence was confined to online attacks and tiny street protests.

The government hopes to boost vaccination rates, but a new anti-vaccine campaign is on the rise.

The new rules come as the country is trying to stave off a third wave of the virus and vaccination numbers remain in the low single digits.

Bunin has also been banned from entering Uzbekistan.

Iran and Georgia considered as alternatives.

The Taliban has assured the region’s governments that it has no designs on them, but can it keep more hostile groups in check?

Iranians have been flooding into Armenia to get COVID vaccines, causing Tehran to complain and Yerevan to tighten the rules.

The documents focuses on viruses, droughts, water shortages and food deficits as potential crisis flashpoints.

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

Restrictions on movement do not appear intended to stem the spread of COVID-19.

Analysts believe the country may be benefiting from herd immunity after devastation last year.

The losses to tax revenues will hit the de facto Nagorno-Karabakh government even harder than Yerevan.

The COVID-19 vaccination experiences of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia show that if you’re a small and poor country, you need to rely on powerful friends.

No real opposition parties were permitted to run.