Eurasianet

A digest, updated daily, on how the pandemic is plundering Eurasia's economies.

Chinese personnel, whose presence Dushanbe denies, forbid reporters from filming.

The country became the world's biggest seller of gold in July.

With their borders still largely closed, Georgians hit the beach and let their guard down. The epidemiological result was inevitable.

Such scandals are likely to raise few eyebrows, however.

Critics complain the draft bill preserves many restrictions.

Beijing is eager to show solidarity as the coronavirus pandemic rumbles on.

Armenia is taking a faster route to in-person classes than its Caucasus neighbors, but it is adopting a number of precautions to make sure that schools don’t spread the virus.

Tofig Yagublu was detained shortly after the president warned that the opposition was using the coronavirus to destabilize Azerbaijan. Now even pro-government MPs are calling for his release.

The tourist season was a disaster, with visitors down almost 90 percent. The taxman has not been sympathetic.

Better salaries may inject some needed dynamism into ailing rural areas.

Parents are pleading for relief from their kids learning from home, however.

The loss-making Tajik company behind a mysterious Belt and Road investment is not a harbinger of economic transformation.

The under-the-surface schism within the government has dominated public discourse in Azerbaijan in recent weeks.

For all the bombastic propaganda, there is no papering over the fact that Turkmenistan is still clearly struggling with a COVID-19 problem.