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An unusual constellation of outside players taking shape.

The surprise trip comes amid a period of geopolitical turmoil in the region, as Russia is getting set to annex several parts of Ukraine.

Kazakhstan’s largest bank has also suspended use of a popular Russian payment card.

The U.S. is pressing companies to show vigilance over export control evasion attempts.

Because official statistics are nonsense, we look to personnel reshuffles to understand where the government recognizes it is underperforming. Our weekly briefing.

Remembering an accidental leader whose brief political career mirrored the greater tragedy of his country.

But Kazakhstan has more to lose.

The idea that the Eurasian Economic Union can help Moscow violate sanctions is exaggerated.

As anti-Russian sentiment rises in Georgia, the many Russians here share Georgians’ shock and disgust at what is happening in Ukraine.

Chinese students abroad say they are under constant surveillance from their peers.

Russia could play the spoiler, though.

Protectionism, pension reform, and pushing toward a common gas market. This and more in our monthly briefing on the Eurasian Economic Union.

Unemployment, post-COVID hopes, and moving gas: This and more in our monthly briefing on the Eurasian Economic Union.

Rigged elections have created political crises in two other post-Soviet countries this year, leaving Nur-Sultan edgy ahead of a parliamentary vote.

Astana Hub hoping political unrest could tempt some specialists into coming their way.

Hypocritical election congratulations underscore the cold strategic underpinnings of a bloc that is as much about politics as it is about trade.

The move disappointed many Armenians, who see the ongoing protests in Belarus as an echo of their own Velvet Revolution two years ago.

Usenov claims he died in 2013 and that he is really called Uritsky.

There is no setback in the EAEU, it would appear, that cannot be fixed with a roadmap.

Russia’s shipment of PPE to New York violated Moscow’s pledge to its closest allies.

Azerbaijan is beginning to assert itself in the post-Soviet fuel feuds. This and more in our monthly briefing on Russian business in Eurasia.

Three years since the Eurasian Union unveiled a grand plan to build a unified digital agenda, there is little sign that member governments are interested in the program.

As Armenia and the other CSTO member states appear increasingly at loggerheads about who should lead the group, Russia has resigned itself to letting no one have the position.

The dispute between Armenia and Belarus – along with its other post-Soviet allies – risks leaving Yerevan geopolitically exposed.

A Belarusian-built potash plant is producing way less than it should.