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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.

Many in the territory blame the rising numbers of coronavirus cases on the authorities’ decision to open up to Russian tourists.

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.

Votes are usually held in November.

Our monthly briefing on China in Central Asia.

$300 million has been given and another $70 million may be on the way

Transfers have fallen by at least 15 percent so far this year.

As coronavirus cripples the territory’s tourism season and Russia has stopped sending aid, Abkhazia faces a 10 percent GDP decline this year.

Most foreign leaders stayed away, but Putin’s Central Asian crew is a dependable lot.

Officials are poised to reopen the country only weeks after the crisis began.

Many Chinese workers have been stuck in Central Asia during the coronavirus lockdown, forced to work overtime to meet production quotas.

With supply chains disrupted, patients with chronic needs are unable to find key medicines.

Articles on the U.S. Embassy-sponsored website call COVID-19 a "fake pandemic" and oppose vaccines. Health experts warn it could make the crisis worse.

Officials say 1,000 people have recovered in a two-day period.

Chinese workers rallied with a demand to be allowed to travel home.