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Bishkek is also angling for yet more room to ease its debt burden.

Travel bans, dams and Russian fans. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Beijing does not appear disposed to give too much leeway.

The terminal state of the economy remains paramount in the minds of those wishing to leave.

5,000 volunteers have been mobilized for the phase-three trial.

Rights activists blasted the authorities' use of force.

Acting President Japarov came to power on the crest of rallies, but will he know how to deal with them as leader?

A facile and naïve plan being discussed in Washington risks backfiring on Iran’s minority Christians.

Georgians go to the polls for legislative elections on October 31 after an unexpectedly eventful campaign season.

The country's largest oil refinery is no stranger to scandals.

Kazakhstan’s food producers look primed to benefit from China’s increasingly tense relationship with traditional trading partners. This and more in our monthly Chinese business briefing.

Before the pandemic, Central Asia’s poorest countries had been managing their Chinese debts quite well. Now they are asking for help.

The Georgian government’s strict, successful early response earned it political dividends. But with a new outbreak, that success is coming under question.

Beijing is eager to show solidarity as the coronavirus pandemic rumbles on.

A new program is an attempt to maintain the country's enviable epidemiological situation and still attract some visitors to its tourism-dependent economy.