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The government has ordered the fiscal inspection service to withdraw letters accusing businesses of evading taxes.

Kazakhstan is moving through the production cycle, powered by Chinese demand.

Kazakh exporters say China is pushing them aside, interested in a transit corridor but not a supplier.

City governments have money to burn and little accountability.

Government agencies and Kazakh-Chinese companies are using the pandemic to shield themselves from scrutiny.

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

Two new papers find that Georgia and Azerbaijan would gain more from improving trade with their neighbors than pursing a place on the Belt and Road.

Bunin has also been banned from entering Uzbekistan.

Iran and Georgia considered as alternatives.

Central Asia’s largest nations are using unique coronavirus vaccines that haven’t been carefully studied. Do they have a choice?

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

The COVID-19 outbreak has compounded a problem caused by low salaries.

The country already leads in vaccination rates in the South Caucasus. Many expect the new rules to drive a black market for fake vaccination passports.

The measure may help herders suffering a massive die-off, but will disrupt supply chains that local farmers have been building for years.

Ashgabat has great confidence these days in its Europe-bound exports. Plus, a mysterious tragedy on the Afghan border. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.