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Kolomoisky (Wikimedia) and Zelensky (president.gov.ua)

How an embattled Ukrainian oligarch has kept his grip on an economic empire

Fabrice Deprez Apr 10, 2020
As Ukraine seeks a financial lifeline from the IMF, Ihor Kolomoisky is faced with an especially severe challenge to his economic empire and his insider position.

Turkmenistan: Through the looking glass

Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Apr 7, 2020
While the government seems to concede the inevitability of the incipient downturn, it is still clinging to rosy economic performance figures. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Winter comes for Georgian hospitality

Giorgi Lomsadze Apr 8, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has paralyzed Georgia’s booming tourism and hospitality industry.
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Kyrgyzstan: Former Matraimov protégé alleges plot against journalist

Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Apr 11, 2020
The Matraimov family has called the allegations a "fantasy."

Georgians literally laundering their cash during coronavirus

Giorgi Lomsadze Apr 10, 2020
One Georgian bazaar has avoided the government’s order to close by adopting a novel way to clean its money.

Armenia seeks to weaken environmental information law

Ani Mejlumyan Apr 10, 2020
Watchdogs fear the change would allow the government to limit the release of mining-related information.

Tajikistan: Court says news website serves as platform for terrorists

Apr 9, 2020
Akhbor has been unavailable in Tajikistan for the past two years.

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A checkpoint in Kyrgyzstan (gov.kg)

Dashboard: Coronavirus in Eurasia

Apr 10, 2020
Eurasianet is updating this page daily with the latest news and data on how the pandemic is upending life in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.
Senate Speaker Dariga Nazarbayeva addressing the upper chamber of parliament on April 9. (senate.parlam.kz)

Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev wealth ruling dismays transparency campaigners

Peter Leonard Apr 9, 2020
A British court has unfrozen $99 million in property belonging to the former president’s daughter and grandson, only after they spoke more candidly about the sources and scope of their wealth than they have ever done at home.

China in Eurasia

A friend with PPE is a friend indeed. (Chinese Embassy in Uzbekistan)

Chinese business briefing: Force majeure

At-Bashi

Chinese business briefing: Corona cursed

Students attend a workshop at the Central Asia International Digital Asset Exchange in Bishkek. The Exchange advertises itself as part of the BRI, but officially is not. (photos: G-Jun Yam)

Branding the Belt and Road: Beijing embarks on damage control in Central Asia

Security camera in Tashkent

China taking Big Brother to Central Asia

Chinese tourists in Kazakhstan

Chinese business briefing: Yuan welcome, but flights cancelled

Blindfolded on the Belt and Road (David Trilling)

Borrowing blind: Why we don’t know how much Eurasia owes China

read more about China's heft in Eurasia

Nations in flux: Uzbekistan

Pompeo and circumstance: The U.S. secretary of state posing with his five counterparts at the C5+1 ministerial summit in Tashkent earlier this week. (@SecPompeo Twitter)

Perspectives | US strategy for Central Asia: An old recipe for a new situation

Getting closer: President Mirziyoyev meets bloggers in Samarkand last August. (Saida Mirziyoyeva/Facebook)

Uzbekistan’s citizen journalists test limits of press freedom

Uzbekistan fruit

Uzbekistan befuddled by Eurasian Economic Union tug of war

read more about Uzbekistan's transition

Nations in flux: Armenia

Harutyunyan votes

Armenia vexed by contested vote in Karabakh

Pashinyan presser

Armenia takes hard line against media reporting on COVID-19

Torosyan

Armenia to test teenaged girls for infertility

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Visual Stories

men digging in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Film | Bukhara: People Live Here

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Film | Bratva: The Russian bikers of Brooklyn

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Armenia photo essay | The last villagers of Bardzrashen

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Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, begun in the fourth century

When the Armenian church threw its doors open to an American photographer

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