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Questions will be asked why this announcement came so late.

Businesses are being allowed to reopen and people to take in some fresh air.

Officials are jealously maintaining control over information while orchestrating suspiciously rosy accounts of a country on the mend.

The World Health Organization is refusing to answer questions while it appears to support the government’s increasingly dubious claims.

The pandemic has profoundly changed funeral culture in Georgia. Death is a very elaborate matter here.

Some of the restrictions are creating public health hazards.

In an unusually public airing of grievances, the prime minister and the catholicos have traded barbs over politics and corruption.

In keeping with a historical pattern, many Eurasian states could be found near the bottom of the index.

The economic crisis will not deter wasteful spending. The education budget, however, is taking a hit.

The Church’s reluctance to cancel Easter services and recognize the state of emergency continues to drive controversy.

Prosecutors claim his treatise arguing Islam did not justify terrorism was an extremist tract.

Georgia has received plaudits for its response to COVID-19. But as the biggest event in the Christian calendar approaches, the nation finds itself torn between church and state, faith and science.

182 health workers have been infected at one hospital alone.

Armenia’s success with distance learning is overwhelming parents and teachers, and illuminating socio-economic divides.

Instead of being transparent about the economic crisis, the president is, in the manner of an unaccountable manager incapable of long-term planning, trying to do the same with less.

Mirziyoyev wants his country-people to grow more of their own vegetables.

Despite years of state pressure, civic groups are providing services for those in need and showing the effectiveness of social engagement, solidarity and selflessness.

At least 79 front line workers have fallen sick as of April 13.

The pandemic is undermining official efforts in China and Russia to foster mutual amity.

Reports from April 6-12 on how the pandemic has upended life in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

Watchdogs fear the change would allow the government to limit the release of mining-related information.

An SMS system to regulate residents’ trips outside the home seems to be working smoothly, but there are still thousands of violations of the regime every day.

Critics are exasperated by the government’s passivity, warning that the reforms needed for Tajikistan to weather this moment should have been adopted “the day before yesterday.”

Reports from March 31-April 5 on how the pandemic has upended life in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

Supporters of the move think it will provide a useful outlet for the momentarily unemployed.