Tajiks are selling everything they own in a desperate effort to secure tickets to Russia. The president’s family, which owns the only ticket office, is making a killing.
Armenian government officials said a plane coming from Baku was bringing back prisoners that have been held there for months. Then it turned out the plane was empty. "We just hoped, as every day, that the flight would bring good news," an official later admitted.
Following last year’s Armenia-Azerbaijan war, officials said there would soon be passenger flights at Stepanakert’s long-closed airport. Now that looks again like a distant prospect.
NGOs in Kazakhstan won a rare reprieve when a court ruled to reverse spurious penalties handed down by the tax authorities. But there is little room for jubilation.
The trial of the decade in Armenia is over, with former president Robert Kocharyan acquitted despite vigorous efforts by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, his political rival, to secure a conviction.
Although Turkmenistan is rarely mentioned as a prospective member of the Moscow-led EAEU trading bloc, that notion is quite obviously on the Kremlin’s mind. Our weekly briefing.
Kyrgyzstan will hold local council elections this weekend. With a new-look constitution, the winning deputies will have more influence than in the past.
The daughter of a prominent Azerbaijani historian and opposition political figure has become the latest in a string of dissident women targeted with leaks relating to their personal lives.
The European Union’s second attempt to reconcile the Georgian government and opposition has failed, leaving the country stuck in the political crisis that is appearing more and more like a chronic condition.
A new rail line connecting Azerbaijan with its exclave of Nakhchivan promises to revolutionize transportation in the Caucasus and could have broad ramifications further afield.
New Armenian legislation that would impose crippling penalties for insult and defamation is coming under criticism from local and international press freedom advocates, who are urging the president not to sign it into law.
The president gets another title, ignores soaring food prices, starts a charity, and pens a ditty to his favorite city. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
Amid heightened concerns about the fate of historic cultural heritage sites in Karabakh comes news that Azerbaijan has razed a three-year-old Armenian church on a military base. Our weekly Post-War Report.
Child sexual abuse is a festering problem in Tajikistan. Cultural norms contributing to secrecy about alleged assaults, however, make it difficult to understand the scale of the crisis.
The death of a nurse, hasty European policy decisions and the church’s indifference all have contributed to a rocky rollout for Georgia's vaccination campaign.
The president of Tajikistan appears to have taken an inordinately long leave of absence, and at a time of year when he is normally out and about in public.
Armenia and Azerbaijan both conducted large-scale military exercises this week, on relatively short notice, amid renewed fears of war. @joshuakucera’s weekly Post-War Report.
Rapid development and expanding rice cultivation upstream in China pose a grave threat to Kazakhstan’s Lake Balkhash, a critical source of drinking water in an arid region.
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