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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.

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.

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

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

Georgia is getting ready to host tourists, but would-be backpackers should not get their hopes up.

Georgia is cautiously returning to normal life, but wondering if opening up will threaten its hard-won success in stemming the spread of coronavirus.

The nation is working on a coronavirus-conscious tourism plan.

One Georgian bazaar has avoided the government’s order to close by adopting a novel way to clean its money.

The coronavirus pandemic has paralyzed Georgia’s booming tourism and hospitality industry.

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