Turkmenistan Steps Farther Into Darkness
Where do you go when you’re a dictatorial regime with few trading partners and fewer friends? The answer for Turkmenistan of late is either “Iran” or “China.” Ashgabat has been playing ugly belle left...
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Little noticed by most observers, who often treat the country as a footnote when noting it at all, Kyrgyzstan has played what might be called one of the cannier games of Realpolitik around. Or perhaps...
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