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Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing: Berdymukhamedov goes traveling and lectures the WHO, while YouTube bows to Turkmen censors and takes down Eurasianet’s channel.

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

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.

Central Asia’s largest nations are using unique coronavirus vaccines that haven’t been carefully studied. Do they have a choice?

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

This is all part of Mirziyoyev's plans to promote female employment.

Vaccine hesitancy in Uzbekistan is high, bred by social media conspiracies that seem credible in a country without accountable authorities.

The timing of the new legislation recalls recent reporting that cast the president in an unfavorable light.

The region appears wholly unprepared for the latest rise in cases.

As the country opens up, citizen journalism is flourishing. In a place unaccustomed to journalists, and with the ethics of the profession not yet cemented, theirs is a risky business.

Hopes are being pinned on the Sino-Uzbek vaccine ZF-UZ-VAC 2001.

The journalist faced not only the customary bureaucratic hurdles, but even alleged sexual harassment from an individual possibly linked to the security services.

Uzbekistan, Tajikistan are taking triumphalist stances on coronavirus.