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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.

Chinese personnel, whose presence Dushanbe denies, forbid reporters from filming.

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

Many in the territory blame the rising numbers of coronavirus cases on the authorities’ decision to open up to Russian tourists.

Kazakh activists are outraged at how their government kowtows to Beijing.

234,000 pneumonia cases from earlier this year will not be included in the tally.

Beijing wants its neighbors to believe it is not abandoning them.

The government’s lack of capacity helps explain the about-face.

As coronavirus cripples the territory’s tourism season and Russia has stopped sending aid, Abkhazia faces a 10 percent GDP decline this year.

Chinese workers rallied with a demand to be allowed to travel home.

Part 1 of a 3-part series.

The pandemic is undermining official efforts in China and Russia to foster mutual amity.

The vote went ahead in spite of the global coronavirus outbreak; although Abkhazia hasn’t recorded any cases, election officials took pains that the disease couldn’t be spread by voting.

The isolation of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh have served them well as the disease spreads all around them.