Eurasianet

5,000 people are taking part in the trials.

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

Bishkek is also angling for yet more room to ease its debt burden.

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

Beijing does not appear disposed to give too much leeway.

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

Acting President Japarov came to power on the crest of rallies, but will he know how to deal with them as leader?

Rigged elections have created political crises in two other post-Soviet countries this year, leaving Nur-Sultan edgy ahead of a parliamentary vote.

The country's largest oil refinery is no stranger to scandals.

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.

Officials say Uzbekistan plans to produce its own vaccine when tests are done.

Chinese personnel, whose presence Dushanbe denies, forbid reporters from filming.

Beijing is eager to show solidarity as the coronavirus pandemic rumbles on.

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