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The mood in Baku is triumphal but it’s heavy and vengeful rather than joyous.

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.

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

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.

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

Rigged elections have created political crises in two other post-Soviet countries this year, leaving Nur-Sultan edgy ahead of a parliamentary vote.

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

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

Some are speaking out against the conflict despite fears the government’s strong support for Azerbaijan could fuel nationalist reprisals.

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.

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