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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.

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

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

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

The authorities are spooked by the idea that a crowd could form.

While it would be wrong to start pointing fingers and formulating conspiracy theories, clearly the risks are many and real.

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.

Before the pandemic, Central Asia’s poorest countries had been managing their Chinese debts quite well. Now they are asking for help.

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

This scotches speculation his son was poised to take over.

Many in the territory blame the rising numbers of coronavirus cases on the authorities’ decision to open up to Russian tourists.

Independent Ukraine has held only one census, almost 20 years ago.

The territory's public health officials have warned against opening up to tourism, and the arrival of tourists has coincided with a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.

Votes are usually held in November.