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Russian peacekeeping troops in Nagorno-Karabakh presided over the exodus of the entire population they were sent there to protect. Moscow says they've done a great job.

An update on environmental issues in Central Asia.

He also said he had no intention of withdrawing his troops from several positions deep inside Armenian territory.

Emil Zhamgyrchiyev is accused of conniving with a criminal kingpin in neighboring Uzbekistan.

It was once the seat of a de facto government. Now it's a ghost town that plays host to projections of its conquerors' power.

The main suspect says he is the victim of a shakedown by the government.

The Soviet dictator "appeared" in Georgia's main church on Christmas, causing sound and fury.

Kazakh officials have scotched the report, stating that the aircraft in question was never registered in Kazakhstan's civil aircraft registry.

Officials say Arstan “Alai” Abdyldayev hanged himself and had been suffering from chronic delusions.

Also in this edition of our podcast, Uzbekistan rues poor education results, and Turkmenistan's ex-president basks in football glory (for now).

An update on cultural developments in Central Asia.

Officials have said that anybody spreading what they deem to be false information about the flag will be thrown behind bars.

New arrangements could be vulnerable to Western sanctions.

This is the clearest attempt by Tokayev to date to place the blame for those deadly events on figures close to Nazarbayev.

Church-state tensions have further worsened since the displacement of Armenians from Karabakh in September.

A former US Caspian energy envoy recalls the ups and downs of getting a key post-Soviet energy export route built.

For years to come, its violent dissolution will loom large in the Armenian consciousness and reverberate across other majority-minority conflicts around the globe.

Kazakhstan proving more adept at dodging blame than Kyrgyzstan.

Ivanishvili says he's coming out of retirement for a second time because the opposition is too weak to hold his team to account.

An update on infrastructure development and investment in Central Asia.

An update on trade-related developments in Central Asia.

An update on energy-related developments in Central Asia.

The snap presidential election in Azerbaijan is an effort to secure the regime's legitimacy before euphoria over the victory in Karabakh subsides.

It will be the second straight presidential election, and sixth consecutive election overall, to be held without the participation of the country's two biggest opposition parties.

Talk is growing louder in Armenia about a possible break with the CSTO and the country declaring "non-bloc status."