98% of the TAPI pipeline route in Herat has been prepared, and 122.3 kilometers of pipe have been welded: Turkmenistan is set to gain its first new gas customer in years.

The German company Hyper Partners GmbH has completed its solar farm in the Pap district of Uzbekistan: 500 MW of capacity, a $350 million investment, and a 25-year power purchase agreement.

Drone incident at the KTK terminal near Novorossiysk: Kazakhstan reduces its 2026 production target to 96 million metric tons and is seeking alternative routes for 82% of its oil exports.

Uzbekistan's imports rose by 17.8%, while exports fell by 3.6%: After the first seven months of 2026, the trade deficit stood at 9.7 billion U.S. dollars, more than double the amount from the previous year.

In August, Kyrgyzstan received 35,000 metric tons of crude oil via a new KazTransOil route—more than it received in all of 2025—in response to refinery outages in Russia and rising gasoline prices.

KazMunayGas issues Central Asia's largest yuan-denominated bond: 3.5 billion yuan, seven times oversubscribed, with a 10-year maturity for the first time.

Tajikistan will raise public sector salaries by up to 25 percent effective September 1; the minimum wage will increase by 30 percent to the equivalent of about $141 per month.

5.3% growth in 2027, 5.5% in 2028, 5.4% in 2029: These are the targets set by the Kazakh government in its new economic forecast. The…

Afghanistan's Herat Province is set to receive its first shipment of Turkmen natural gas via the TAPI pipeline within two months, marking Turkmenistan's first new market in a decade and a half.

Uzbekistan's inflation rate has fallen to 6.4%; Central Bank Governor Ishmetov believes an interest rate cut is still possible in 2026; and Goldman Sachs and BlackRock are reportedly advising on how to invest the country's record reserves of $77.1 billion.

Kyrgyzstan's cabinet is discussing a price stabilization plan worth 36.6 billion som and is raising its inflation forecast for 2026 from 9% to 14–15%.

The Eurasian Development Bank has 114 transportation projects in Central Asia totaling $71.7 billion, with $32.3 billion of that amount accounted for by Kazakhstan alone.

Remittances to Uzbekistan rose by 13% to $9.3 billion in the first half of the year: Russia's share fell to 72.4%, while remittances from the United Kingdom increased by 62%.

Russia's fuel shipments to Kyrgyzstan are stalling: Bishkek is negotiating with Sinopec, and the first tanker trucks from China have already arrived in the country.

Tajikistan's industrial output plummeted by nearly 38% in the first half of 2026, while exports rose by 65.3% to $1.6 billion, driven by gold and minerals.