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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.

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?

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

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

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.

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

The first in a series of briefings on Beijing's investments in Central Asian renewables.

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.

Kazakh activists are outraged at how their government kowtows to Beijing.

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