Eurasianet

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.

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

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.

The government will help outlets that publish its propaganda.

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.

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

A facile and naïve plan being discussed in Washington risks backfiring on Iran’s minority Christians.

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