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

Travel bans, dams and Russian fans. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

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.

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

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.

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

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

In several cases, the employers themselves have been the ones thwarting their workers from getting stimulus money.

Protestors violated the state of emergency to say Pashinyan broke his promise.

Businesses complain the plans do not address the scope of coronavirus-related economic damage.

Watchdogs fear the change would allow the government to limit the release of mining-related information.

Russia’s shipment of PPE to New York violated Moscow’s pledge to its closest allies.

Their numbers were growing fast, but Chinese tourists were a tiny fraction of the total.