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

Victims of crime say they are not properly treated by police.

Letters from Washington, cybersecurity cooperation with China, and negotiating with a bankrupt Taliban. This and more in our weekly briefing.

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

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

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.

Middle-class Afghans with the means to navigate Tajikistan’s bureaucracy see the country as a springboard to the West.

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

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

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.

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.

With an art school and international animation festival, a Georgian Orthodox bishop is trying to revive a village on the de facto border with South Ossetia.

Bunin has also been banned from entering Uzbekistan.