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A project that catalogs the victims of Chinese repression has been targeted by Beijing’s wolf warriors and Central Asian governments.

The two men pleaded guilty to being mercenaries but rejected charges they were “terrorists.”

More authority will be wielded, in principle, by a national people's congress.

Succession, rampant inflation, and the dear leader gets some exotic new pets. This and more in our weekly briefing.

Armenia’s prime minister has gotten a head start campaigning for general elections that few expect will end the country’s political crisis.

While the president and his son indulge their favorite pets, food for people is increasingly scarce. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

There are strong indications security services are involved in smear exercises.

The unprecedented White House statement was welcomed by Armenians around the world, and viewed in the Caucasus through the lens of last year’s war with Azerbaijan.

One of the key elements of the EU-brokered deal, a broad amnesty, is facing objections from the party it was designed to help.

At the same time, some improbable characters are allowed to walk free.

Legacy and death must linger perennially even in the minds of the most megalomaniacal autocrats, and this is why preparations for Turkmenistan’s future are proceeding apace.

As Georgian politicians near a possible resolution to their long-running political crisis, they are facing increasing impatience from their American and European allies.

Residents say they have nowhere for their livestock to drink water.

After previously denying it, Azerbaijan now says that Armenia fired Russian-made rockets during last year’s war. And now they’re trying to make things difficult for Moscow.

Activists had been pushing for their government to adopt the landmark international anti-domestic violence agreement. But “big brother” Turkey has made it more difficult.

A low turnout may dent the legitimacy of the exercise, however.

Azerbaijan has been playing hardball with Armenia over the prisoners it continues to hold. But with a botched POW release that wasn’t, Armenia has weakened its position all by itself.

The penalties were levied before the elections, and reversed now that the elections have passed.

This appears to be the end of the two-year legal saga of Robert Kocharyan. Now he says he’s going back to politics to challenge his political nemesis, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

The April 11 vote for 448 local councils across the country may turn out to be more consequential than usual.

What’s in a name? Azerbaijan’s decision to stop using the name “Nagorno-Karabakh” is the latest chapter in the long history of contested terminology in the region. Our weekly Post-War Report.

There has been a recent spate of online sexual harassment of women opposition figures, and activists say the government appears to be behind it.

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

A second attempt at mediation by an EU diplomat failed to achieve results, as Georgia's western partners are proving unable to help the country's two warring political factions find common ground.