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• Kazakhstan Increases Fuel Prices To Protect National Interests

  Published 10 April 2023 | viewed 1,978 times

  Kazakhstan’s government has announced an imminent increase in the price of fuel, effectively declaring defeat in its attempt to keep costs low for domestic consumers. …

• Kyrgyzstan Ramps Up Power Purchases From Russia

  Published 31 March 2023 | viewed 1,700 times

  A senior energy official in Kyrgyzstan has said that the government is poised to reach an agreement with Russia to import 875 million kilowatt hours…

• Hydropower Plant At Center Of National Security Controversy In Georgia

  Published 23 March 2023 | viewed 1,920 times

  The leaders of Georgia's ruling party have been pushing a seemingly paradoxical allegation: that Western-funded NGOs supported what the party calls a Russia-sponsored protest movement…

• The Dangers Of Unchecked Power: Putin And The Potential Use Of WMDs

  Published 19 March 2023 | viewed 3,356 times

  Western arms control experts are asking whether old taboos on the use of nuclear weapons are still valid in an age of ascendant illiberalism, underscored…

• Tensions Mount Between Azerbaijan And Iran

  Published 15 March 2023 | viewed 8,246 times

  Azerbaijan's strained relations with Iran aren't getting any better. Baku has sent two protest notes to Tehran in recent days.   On March 11, Azerbaijan's foreign…

• Kazakhstan Faces Political Pressure To Diversify Its Oil Export Routes

  Published 11 March 2023 | viewed 2,354 times

  Astana is upbeat about boosting oil exports, despite caveats over how the war in Ukraine may impact markets and questions about its recently launched shipments…

• Chronic Shortages Push Uzbekistan Towards Russian Natural Gas

  Published 03 March 2023 | viewed 4,187 times

  Uzbekistan’s state-owned natural gas company is still working on adjusting pipeline infrastructure to enable it to import fuel from Russia, a measure it is pursuing…

• Kazakh Officials Urge Citizens To Conserve Gas As Imports Become Necessary

  Published 26 February 2023 | viewed 3,289 times

  Kazakhstan’s state-owned natural gas company has vowed that there will be no repeat shortages of the fuel next fall and winter like the ones that…

• Uzbekistan’s Natural Gas Production Drops As Energy Woes Worsen

  Published 23 February 2023 | viewed 3,874 times

  After gas shortages during an unusually freezing winter left Uzbeks shivering in the dark, new extraction data is adding to worries about the country’s near-term…

• Tensions Rise Between Iran And Azerbaijan Amid Dispute Over Embassy Attack

  Published 22 February 2023 | viewed 2,853 times

  Azerbaijan's president has directly blamed the Iranian government for the attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran on January 27. Ilham Aliyev was responding to a question…

• Uzbek Police Bust Three Involved In Million-Dollar Radioactive Materials Sale

  Published 20 February 2023 | viewed 1,043 times

  Police in Uzbekistan say they have arrested three men for plotting to sell homemade devices containing mercury and weapons-grade radioactive material for $1 million.  The…

• Azerbaijan Restarts Oil Exports As Demand In Europe Soars

  Published 18 February 2023 | viewed 8,312 times

  Azerbaijan's crude oil exports through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline restarted after a six-day halt due to the devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey on February…

• Crypto Miners Blamed For Kazakhstan’s Power Problems

  Published 14 February 2023 | viewed 1,493 times

  Households and enterprises in seven regions across Kazakhstan were temporarily knocked off the power grid as temperatures dropped to around -14 degrees Celsius over the…

• Georgia Is Walking A Fine Line Between The West And Russia

  Published 06 February 2023 | viewed 2,648 times

  The United States and European Union have pressed on the Georgian government not to allow the re-establishment of direct flights with Russia as ruling party…

• Turkmenistan Emerges As Transit Hub For Russian Deliveries To South Asia

  Published 01 February 2023 | viewed 5,143 times

  There is no keeping the Russians away from Turkmenistan at the moment. On January 19, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin traveled to Ashgabat for a two-day…

• BP Taps Deep Gas Reservoirs In Azerbaijan’s Caspian Sea

  Published 31 January 2023 | viewed 3,572 times

  UK oil giant BP has started drilling two new exploration wells to search for gas deep beneath the Caspian Sea. The announcement comes as Azerbaijan…

• Is Russia Making Any Progress In Its Central Asia Gas Goals?

  Published 28 January 2023 | viewed 4,378 times

  When Russia floated the idea of forging a tripartite gas union with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan late last year, it fell flat. Critics derided it as…

• Azerbaijan Signs String Of Green Power Deals With International Investors

  Published 27 January 2023 | viewed 2,861 times

  News that Azerbaijan's state energy company SOCAR had last week signed an agreement with UAE energy giant Masdar to develop a massive 2 gigawatts (GW)…

• EU Expands Role In South Caucus With Armenia-Azerbaijan Border Mission

  Published 27 January 2023 | viewed 1,501 times

  The EU will deploy a 100-strong monitoring mission to Armenia's border with Azerbaijan for a term of two years, a more robust version of an…

• Soaring Food Prices Prompt Eurasian Nations To Ban Food Exports

  Published 26 January 2023 | viewed 3,465 times

  The harshest winter since 2008 is contributing to shortages of staple vegetables across Central Asia and sending prices north in a region still suffering from…