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It sounded like Xi Jinping was warning Putin against any adventures in Central Asia.

The demonstration, which city hall allowed, passed peacefully.

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

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.

Iran and Georgia considered as alternatives.

Kazakhs unable to travel abroad are discovering their country is full of nice places to vacation. But what’s good for the local economy is not always good for nature.

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

The documents focuses on viruses, droughts, water shortages and food deficits as potential crisis flashpoints.

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.

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.