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2022 has been a year of unprecedented trade growth between Russia and Turkey – the only NATO member that has yet to participate in anti-Russia sanctions.

Security chat. The secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, is in Iran for meetings with his Iranian counterpart and unspecified

Payment plan. Turkey’s energy and natural resources minister announced that Ankara and Moscow have reached an agreement on the issue of payments in

Washington in Central Asia. U.S. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu is visiting Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan

Ukrainian guarantees. Russia said it would return to a deal that facilitated the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea after receiving written

Test prep. North Korea is likely continuing preparations for its seventh nuclear test, a U.S. State Department spokesman said. Not coincidentally, South

As I write this, my wife and I are preparing to take the world’s largest commercial airplane, the double-decker Airbus A380, for a flight from Newark to

Summit in Yerevan. The heads of government of the Eurasian Economic Union (Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) met on Friday in Yerevan.

Over the past month, I have spoken at several conferences about the challenges that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent economic war pose for

Quad cooperation. Australia and Japan will sign a defense agreement this weekend, strengthening military cooperation between the two allies. The deal is