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Similar systems have been used around the world to encourage vaccinations. But under Georgia’s, you may be better off not being vaccinated at all.

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.

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

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.

Georgia’s mortality rate is among the world’s highest, and just under 6 percent of the population is fully vaccinated.

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

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.

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

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

What makes Rahmon’s disappearance all very odd is that he is a particular devotee of the Nowruz spring equinox feast.

The surprise resignation has delayed the crisis, but there is still no end in sight to the country’s political impasse.

Mayor Emomali says city hall spent $1.14 million on bus stops.