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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.

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.

Beijing does not appear disposed to give too much leeway.

Some appear to be using bribes to circumvent the technology.

The terminal state of the economy remains paramount in the minds of those wishing to leave.

Recent events on China’s periphery confirm that Beijing is playing a long game for regional dominance.