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And U.S. officials have been touring the region chiding countries for failing to prevent Russian sanctions-busting.

Analysts say that, while an Erdogan defeat would be a preferable outcome for Armenia, a change of power in Turkey would not necessarily be a game changer.

Officials are interested in renewables on paper, but there is little evidence Ashgabat is committed to minimizing the environmental damage it is causing. Our weekly briefing.

Prices for power, water and gas may see increases of up to 30 percent.

Armenia's exports to Russia are booming – but the country's producers aren't benefiting.

At least one leading financial services company is cutting back its exposure to Russian nationals.

A panhandling president is unaccountable to his Western benefactors.

The business ombudsman’s office says it has over three years dealt with around 170 complaints made by businesspeople against the government.

Treatment with Voxzogo, a new medication for a condition causing dwarfism and various health complications, is said to cost up to $200,000 per year.

Turkmenistan is at last willing to discuss its full-blown water crisis. Our weekly briefing.

And can Central Asia’s poorest countries benefit from their new importance to Russia without suffering secondary sanctions?

Russia is hurting close allies, fueling frustration with the Eurasian Economic Union, or EAEU trade bloc.

Alexander Zhadan served as a gatekeeper and provided counsel, all while acquiescing to the crackpot megalomania that gripped both the presidents he served. Our weekly briefing.

In the years before independence, Stepnogorsk had become a key node in Moscow’s biological weapons program and uranium industry. Now it is one of many Kazakh provincial towns framed by its Soviet legacy.

Death in the family, U.S. visitors come visiting, pointless election results, and the sad lot of Turkmen women. Our weekly briefing.

E-commerce companies are actively exploring options for building logistics sites in Kazakhstan.

Officials say surging demand is being compounded by illegal exports.

Uzbekistan is working to introduce penalties for wasting water.

Moscow’s food-safety concerns tend to mirror ups and downs in political relations with source nations.

A Q&A with economist Christopher Hartwell on incentives to making energy use more efficient.

The average Kazakh family spends almost all its earnings on food, utilities and paying off loans.

The authorities accuse top pharmacy chains of hiking prices on vital medications to evade new regulations.

Former officials, including ones facing criminal charges, have managed to sell properties in legally questionable deals while only one so far has agreed to reimburse the state.

It has already started importing from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan this year.

Fully 40 percent of Kazakh-Chinese trade is accounted for by dealings with Xinjiang.