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Sanctions on Russia quickly impact its allies in Central Asia.

None could miss Beijing’s big moment.

The country has belatedly introduced a COVID pass system to enter restaurants and bars as the vaccination rate remains at just 28 percent.

Xi Jinping said trade has grown 25-fold over the last two decades.

Salaries were always horribly low but living costs have soared since the pandemic began.

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.

That sets them apart from Afghanistan’s other post-Soviet neighbor, Tajikistan.

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

In recent years the Caucasus country has become a magnet for Iranian students, business owners, and dissidents. But now many report they’re not being allowed to enter.

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.

Iran and Georgia considered as alternatives.

That Central Asia's presidents seemed to enjoy themselves together was itself a breakthrough. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Despite ambitions for Karabakh reconstruction, the government's overall construction budget has barely budged.

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

Tajik officials no longer speak about the militants with complete disdain.