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Ashgabat takes a new Turkish ambassador's letters
Serdar Berdymukhamedov received Sener Cebeci's credentials on Friday; the readout speaks of fraternal relations of a long-term, strategic nature.
Tokayev gives the Security Council its own apparatus
While the chamber waits for a prime minister's name, the president spent Saturday building a state body: the Security Council's apparatus, directly subordinate and accountable to him.
Ulaanbaatar closes the drought books at $1.3 billion
COP17 closed at the end of last week with a $1.3 billion restoration and drought portfolio for 23 countries, while the decision on a global drought regime travels on to Egypt.
Moscow packs a referendum for Bishkek
The Kremlin has named the topic Vladimir Putin brings to Nikol Pashinyan in Bishkek: the choice it wants Armenia to put to a vote.
Uzbekistan and India trade up to a comprehensive partnership
Modi's Tashkent stop closed on Sunday with the relationship raised to a comprehensive strategic partnership, 10 documents signed and a $5 billion trade target set for 2030.
Remittances into Kyrgyzstan clear $1.5 billion by midyear
Money transfers into Kyrgyzstan reached $1,539.5 million in January through June against $150.6 million sent out, by the National Bank's half-year count carried on Friday: a net inflow of $1.39 billion, and a corridor that in June ran 92.8% through the CIS.
Ulaanbaatar takes back 407 pieces of its greenbelt
The governor of Mongolia's capital revoked land rights on 407 plots in the forested belt around Ulaanbaatar, out of 11,706 granted there, after inspections of 26 summer-cottage zones, the state agency Montsame reported on Friday.
Tashkent's gas ledger runs 4 to 1 toward imports
Seven months of 2026 put Uzbekistan's gas trade in one line: $1.1 billion bought from Russia and Turkmenistan, $279.7 million sold to China, and the selling side down 36.2% on the year, by the national statistics committee's count carried on Friday.
Georgia's president pardons 9 from the protest cells
Mikheil Kavelashvili pardoned 9 people jailed across three waves of Georgian protest, from the 2024 marches against the foreign-agents law to last October's unrest, in an act the ruling party framed as answered petitions.
Lavrov answers the Kocharyan file with a referendum demand
Moscow's first comment above spokesperson level on Armenia's prosecuted ex-presidents arrived on Friday from Sergey Lavrov: the leadership in Yerevan is "guided by other tasks", the Eurasian membership on the table is worth $6 billion to $12 billion a year by his count, and the choice between Brussels and that union should go to a referendum without delay.
The Kurultai builds itself in an afternoon, and the government's clock waits on two names
Kazakhstan's new parliament finished its own construction on Friday: a speaker elected by secret ballot, three deputy speakers, 8 committees, all inside the opening sitting. The executive it faces stayed unbuilt. President Tokayev accepted the Bektenov cabinet's resignation in the morning and told deputies he will submit a prime minister and a vice-president once the chamber's structure stands, which by late afternoon it did.
Baku protests images displayed at its Moscow compound
Azerbaijan's foreign ministry condemned "provocative images against our country" displayed by unknown persons outside its embassy's guest house in Moscow around midday Thursday, and asked Russia for a legal assessment of the act.
Mongolia's August petrol book runs a third short of its orders
Mongolia has received 51,000 of the 74,780 tons of AI-92 it contracted for August, industry ministry state secretary Buriad Dashpurev said on Thursday, with about 23,000 tons more expected before month-end; diesel stands at 130,000 of 158,650 tons.
The drought rule leaves Ulaanbaatar for Egypt
The fight that defined the desertification summit's second week ends without an instrument: negotiators reached what the talks' rapporteurs called a delicate agreement to carry the drought question to COP18, and the closing plenary was set to adopt the package on Friday afternoon in Ulaanbaatar.
The Kurultai sits, and the government's mandate returns
Kazakhstan's new single-chamber parliament convened at 11:00 in Astana on Friday, 145 deputies seated and 110 of them from one party, with three acts on its opening table: a speaker to elect by secret ballot, the Bektenov cabinet's mandate to receive, and a first bill the president has already named.
The ADB puts $400 million behind the region's border queues
The Asian Development Bank approved on Thursday a $400 million regional facility, BUILD, to modernise border crossings across the 11 CAREC countries, with up to $50 million per project over 10 years. The priority projects named so far are Tajik: Fotehobod-Oybek on the Uzbek border, Sarazm and Navbunyod.
Dushanbe rewrites its 3-year forecast: more freight, more investment, less aluminiu
Tajikistan's government has revised its macroeconomic forecast for 2027 to 2029. Industrial output is now expected to reach about 132 billion somoni ($14.3 billion) in 2028 against roughly 106 billion in the previous version, freight traffic 211 million tonnes instead of 160 million, and fixed investment 44.5 billion somoni instead of 40.5 billion. The aluminium line moved the other way: the 188,000-tonne target for 2028 has been cut, and the new figure was left out of the summary that reached print.
Astana holds an Uzbek scholar on a spying charge, and neither capital will say why
Ikboljon Qoraboyev, a professor of international relations at Maqsut Narikbayev University in Astana and a citizen of Uzbekistan, has been in custody since 3 July under article 176 of Kazakhstan's criminal code, espionage, his family told the BBC's Uzbek service. Nearly 8 weeks later no institution in either capital has said what he is accused of doing.
Baku's media complaint goes on the record: 96 outlets
The number that reached the wires this week began as an interview. Azerbaijan's ambassador to Russia counted the Russian outlets running theses about his country at 96 or more, and asked Moscow for a political assessment and concrete measures. The count had circulated for days as a stray figure; now it has an author on the record.
Georgia's jailed ex-premier turns into a recruitment target
Irma Inashvili publicly invited Irakli Garibashvili to join her Alliance of Patriots: a political prisoner, in her reading, should answer with politics. The ruling party answers his letters from jail with one word, masquerade.