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- In Kazakhstan, the war in Ukraine is triggering a noticeable interest in the Kazakh language.
- Azerbaijan is importing gas from Russia and exporting gas to Europe.
- The arrest sets a chilling precedent, as most of the adult male population of the region has either fought against Azerbaijan or served in the local army, which Baku calls an "illegal armed formation."
- Perennially unstable Kyrgyzstan is seeing a surge of unemployed young men return from Russia.
- Azerbaijan's first lady has unexpectedly resigned as “goodwill ambassador” to UNESCO amid a dispute between Baku and the UN organization over Karabakh.
- Kazakhstan’s largest iron ore-enricher has cut supplies to a major steelworks in Siberia.
- Azerbaijan’s government has announced that it intends to erase Armenian inscriptions on religious sites in the territory that it reclaimed in the 2020 war with Armenia.
- A senior Ukrainian official has said the impact of Azerbaijan’s blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh is being exaggerated as a Russian effort to distract global attention from the war in his country.
- In his last bit of writing for Eurasianet, departing Central Asia editor Peter Leonard reflects on the troubled state of journalism about and in the region
- Uzbekistan has taken a position on Russia’s war in Ukraine, breaking ranks with its neighbors.
- Russia has shut down the pipeline Kazakhstan uses to export most of its oil.
- Years before it was possible in the traditional Kurdish lands, four young men in Soviet Tbilisi formed the world's first Kurdish rock band.
- Every day, Azerbaijani authorities send news outlets instructions on how to cover events large and small. We got our hands on a cache of the messages.
