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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.

5,000 people are taking part in the trials.

Trials for a domestically developed QazCovid-in vaccine are not expected to be completed until March.

But there is no papering over the festering disillusionment.

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.

Numbers of coronavirus cases has seen a sharp surge recently.

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

Rigged elections have created political crises in two other post-Soviet countries this year, leaving Nur-Sultan edgy ahead of a parliamentary vote.

The president says the vote will marking a turning point. Skeptics yawn.

Officials say Uzbekistan plans to produce its own vaccine when tests are done.

Overdue loans have increased by 10 percent since January.

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

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