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Officials suspect a newly published paper on the 14th century plague is a plot to kill the country's tourism industry.

Beishenaliyev says he has been set up by vindictive prosecutors.

Beishenaliyev enjoys a close relationship with the president.

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.

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

Japarov and Tashiyev came to office together, may they leave it apart.

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

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.

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

The appearance of the self-defense units is the second time this year that civil society has been forced to hold the line. Where the state repeatedly fails to live up to its obligations, volunteers step in.

Severe economic and epidemiological challenges now lie ahead.

While it would be wrong to start pointing fingers and formulating conspiracy theories, clearly the risks are many and real.

Any political turmoil was bound to worsen Kyrgyzstan's eviscerated economy, but what has happened over the past week has been especially destructive.