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Trials for a domestically developed QazCovid-in vaccine are not expected to be completed until March.

But there is no papering over the festering disillusionment.

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.

Numbers of coronavirus cases has seen a sharp surge recently.

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

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

The president says the vote will marking a turning point. Skeptics yawn.

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.

Beijing is eager to show solidarity as the coronavirus pandemic rumbles on.

Parents are pleading for relief from their kids learning from home, however.