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Today hundreds of Georgians are sneaking into the U.S. from Mexico, but one Georgian who blazed that trail 20 years ago is now able to tell her story.

Making an example of this group looks like an attempt to put an indefinite end to Kyrgyzstan’s periodic cycle of extra-parliamentary regime changes.

The official investigation into bloody chaos this summer has yet to deliver. Even the names of the dead remain a secret.

Azerbaijanis promise that Armenians can pass along the road. But for Armenians, the conditions are politically unacceptable.

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.

The most prominent defendant had previously accused the judge of embezzlement.

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

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

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

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

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

They face obstacles, though, including globalization and an education system that gives little time to minority languages.

Authorities have been pushed into action by growing public criticism over the accident.

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It is not the energy sector that employs most foreign specialists but construction.

There is a gaping inconsistency between the president’s promises and how police treat activists.

The Khovos plant has capacity to produce up to 1.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity per year.

Part of the mission is to ensure that Russians engage constructively with people in their new home.

The seashore at Buzovna, once one of Azerbaijan’s iconic landscapes, had been closed to regular people as beachfront property owners fenced it off. Now locals have managed to get some beach back.

Power, heating and gas outages have come well ahead of the peak of the cold winter weather.

The unique Islamic structures stand on the fringes of Georgian culture.

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Critics say the changes will force many civic organizations to close their doors.