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Let them eat cake.

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.

In the early days of the pandemic, Georgia enjoyed one of the most enviable rates in the world. Things began to fall apart in late summer.

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

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

Rights activists blasted the authorities' use of force.

A facile and naïve plan being discussed in Washington risks backfiring on Iran’s minority Christians.

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

The authorities are spooked by the idea that a crowd could form.

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 Georgian government’s strict, successful early response earned it political dividends. But with a new outbreak, that success is coming under question.

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

With their borders still largely closed, Georgians hit the beach and let their guard down. The epidemiological result was inevitable.

A new program is an attempt to maintain the country's enviable epidemiological situation and still attract some visitors to its tourism-dependent economy.