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Out-of-touch elites, poor planning, and some signs of progress in regional trade. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The president-in-waiting plans to change nothing. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The demonstration, which city hall allowed, passed peacefully.

In our weekly briefing: The Taliban visit Ashgabat, the dauphin is received by Uzbekistan’s president, and authorities tighten control after unrest in neighboring Kazakhstan.

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

In our weekly briefing: doing business with Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Plus, it’s reprimand season.

Bunin has also been banned from entering Uzbekistan.

Iranians have been flooding into Armenia to get COVID vaccines, causing Tehran to complain and Yerevan to tighten the rules.

Restrictions on movement do not appear intended to stem the spread of COVID-19.

No real opposition parties were permitted to run.

But there is no papering over the festering disillusionment.

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

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

Rigged elections have created political crises in two other post-Soviet countries this year, leaving Nur-Sultan edgy ahead of a parliamentary vote.

The president says the vote will marking a turning point. Skeptics yawn.