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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.

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

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

The government is eager to stress that the loan is all but interest free.

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

The government will help outlets that publish its propaganda.

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

The trade bloc's failure to stop contraband smuggling is connected to the high drama playing out in Kyrgyzstan.

The healthcare sector has been embroiled in corruption scandals for years.

This week in our Turkmenistan bulletin: Ashgabat and Moscow suddenly ratify an aged security agreement. Plus budgets, boasts and bribes.

The president bets on a big infrastructure program to reinvigorate his political fortunes.

The die-off has caused a shortage of meat and eggs in markets.

Kazakhstan’s food producers look primed to benefit from China’s increasingly tense relationship with traditional trading partners. This and more in our monthly Chinese business briefing.

Overdue loans have increased by 10 percent since January.