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To each their own annus horribilis.

The mood in Baku is triumphal but it’s heavy and vengeful rather than joyous.

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.

In the early days of the pandemic, Georgia enjoyed one of the most enviable rates in the world. Things began to fall apart in late summer.

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.

Rights activists blasted the authorities' use of force.

Georgians go to the polls for legislative elections on October 31 after an unexpectedly eventful campaign season.

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.

Some are speaking out against the conflict despite fears the government’s strong support for Azerbaijan could fuel nationalist reprisals.

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.

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