The Eurasian Economic Union is having a summit in Yerevan on October 1. But it’s not clear whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to grace the Armenian capital with his presence.
According to UN statistics, there may be up to 87,000 stateless people in Uzbekistan. Many are ethnic Uzbeks who fled Tajikistan’s civil war in the early 1990s.
Credit and access to hard currency are no longer problems. But the lack of experienced technicians has forced businesses to scope out other ways of bringing staff up to scratch.
The Armenian church made a rare intervention in politics to publicly oppose the convention, and the government has appealed to European officials for guidance.