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

The government is eager to stress that the loan is all but interest free.

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

The government will help outlets that publish its propaganda.

The healthcare sector has been embroiled in corruption scandals for years.

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

The die-off has caused a shortage of meat and eggs in markets.

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.

Overdue loans have increased by 10 percent since January.

Pledges to let people raid their pension pots were met favorably, though.

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.

Kyrgyz officials have drawn up a list of 31 countries from which people can visit.

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.