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Middle-class Afghans with the means to navigate Tajikistan’s bureaucracy see the country as a springboard to the West.

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

That sets them apart from Afghanistan’s other post-Soviet neighbor, Tajikistan.

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.

The Taliban has assured the region’s governments that it has no designs on them, but can it keep more hostile groups in check?

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.

Tajik officials no longer speak about the militants with complete disdain.

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

What makes Rahmon’s disappearance all very odd is that he is a particular devotee of the Nowruz spring equinox feast.

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

Mayor Emomali says city hall spent $1.14 million on bus stops.