Turkmenistan

Issues of trade, transport, investment, tourism, and security topped the agenda at the 7th Central Asia + Japan dialogue.

Turkmenistan needs a sale, and Russia probably got a good price.

Improved digital infrastructure and pushes for reform are changing how Central Asian politicians and bureaucrats govern.

Moon took the long way home from the United States, spending eight days visiting Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

In 1990, Bruce Pannier first went to Central Asia -- what was it like and what’s changed since then?

Mapping newly created, resurrected, and proposed transport routes across Central Asia provides insight into regional connectivity drives.

Ashgabat is still trying to cut expenses wherever it can, and even foreign companies are feeling the pinch.

A reported drive to register men under 50 for the army reserves hints at underlying concern about the border.

Turkmenistan's economic perils could drive a person to drink, but that's more difficult with a new law restricting alcohol sales.

Successful realization of the opportunities opened by the deal will depend on political will among the Caspian littoral states.

A discussion of Central Asia's hottest topics from Uzbekistan’s reforms to Kazakh succession and China's Belt and Road.

The use of “former Soviet” to refer to Central Asia can be blinding, distracting from the realizing that the region isn't static.