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A panhandling president is unaccountable to his Western benefactors.

Sanctions on Russia quickly impact its allies in Central Asia.

The government said the system was useless against the Omicron variant, but critics accused them of pandering to anti-vaxxer sentiment.

None could miss Beijing’s big moment.

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

Tbilisi’s world-famous nightclubs were the country’s last businesses to reopen following the COVID lockdown. But it took a confrontation with the authorities to make it happen.

Most of the tourists came overland from neighboring Turkey and Russia.

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

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.

Iran and Georgia considered as alternatives.

Georgia’s mortality rate is among the world’s highest, and just under 6 percent of the population is fully vaccinated.

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