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A vaunted meeting to discuss shipping Turkmen gas to Turkey and Europe ended without a breakthrough. But Uzbekistan is buying. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Officials say they want to help worthy charities, but often they just get in the way.

The region is newly strategic as Russia’s war shifts attention to the so-called Middle Corridor.

Tajikistan has struggled for over a decade to raise funds for the world's tallest dam, leaving its population freezing each winter and skimping on basic social services.

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Central Asia’s most populous country is keen on the Green Card lottery, but low returns stoke demand for alternatives.

The head of the licensee blames customs troubles for their inability to get supplies.

Turkmenistan reveals its closest partners as it prepares to host a gas-focused summit with Azerbaijan and Turkey. Plus, with the New Year approaching, it is time for bread and circus. Our weekly briefing.

While households are struggling to deal with a heating crisis, some private enterprises have been able to receive steady supplies of gas.

As Georgia sees a surge in demand for cargo transit amid the Ukraine war, the government hopes to resume construction of a controversial deep sea port.

Anomalously cold temperatures that are exacerbating the shortages will continue into next week.

As it was preparing for war, Russia undermined an international pact that has managed global arbitration cases since the height of the Cold War.

Putin's spokesman has denied the proposal is being used to advance political objectives.

The return of many male migrant laborers from Russia during the pandemic seems to have compounded the crisis.

Casting himself as a whistleblower, the businessman, who died in October, never comes clean about whether his hands ever got dirty.

The pains of the education system are a vivid testament to the challenges ahead.

Astana accepts that it cannot force China to use less water upstream. But the BRI may help it reduce its own water waste, a new paper argues.

A joint venture with China has edged Kazatomprom, the world’s largest producer of uranium, into the nuclear fuel production cycle.

Russia is proposing a major reconfiguration of the Central Asian gas market. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Nuraliyev's time at the National Bank was dominated by a series of restrictions.

Georgian imports from Russia are up 74 percent this year, as commodity traders take advantage of cut-rate prices. But could these ties make Georgia once again too dependent on an adversary?

The train arrived with 40 carriages loaded with household appliances.

The Middle Corridor – an alternative route from China to Europe that skirts Russia – has seen a massive increase in freight this year.

Nearly 10,000 Russian businesses have been registered in Georgia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Many of them are in places you wouldn’t expect.

Subsidized loans are helping some families become homeowners, while driving property prices out of reach for others.