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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.

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

The population has not been counted in over 30 years.

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

5,000 volunteers have been mobilized for the phase-three trial.

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

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.

The country became the world's biggest seller of gold in July.

Better salaries may inject some needed dynamism into ailing rural areas.

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.