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To each their own annus horribilis.

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

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.

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

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

Hypocritical election congratulations underscore the cold strategic underpinnings of a bloc that is as much about politics as it is about trade.

A new program is an attempt to maintain the country's enviable epidemiological situation and still attract some visitors to its tourism-dependent economy.

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.

In an unprecedented speech, Ilham Aliyev blasted the “socialist economic model” behind his country’s largest companies.

There is no setback in the EAEU, it would appear, that cannot be fixed with a roadmap.

Archived reports from July 2020 on how the pandemic has upended life in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

“It was the pandemic that hit the economy hard, not the lockdown itself.”

Realignment would put the EU on sounder economic footing, and reduce the possibility of Chinese economic bullying down the road.

The government’s lack of capacity helps explain the about-face.