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A new documentary on a Soviet soccer star also tells the story of Central Asia’s ethnic Korean community, which was deported en masse to the region by Stalin.

Let them eat cake.

Food prices have jumped this year and there are few jobs, but out-of-work migrants can’t get to where they are desperately needed.

Don’t judge the Belt and Road Initiative by its bottom line. Beijing wants to make the rules.

Following Ankara’s strong backing of Azerbaijan in the recent war, Yerevan is banning many Turkish goods.

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

Bishkek is also angling for yet more room to ease its debt burden.

The distant war may play a role in Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Any breakthrough in improving the lot of labor migrants will be touted as sign of his political heft.

Travel bans, dams and Russian fans. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Beijing has adopted a new economic model for the region, investing less in major infrastructure and spreading its risk.

Experts estimate that reconstruction could take 10 years and tens of billions of dollars.

Beijing does not appear disposed to give too much leeway.

Fears are growing in particular for Armenian monuments being handed over.