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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.

5,000 people are taking part in the trials.

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

Officials were irked by coverage about haphazard preparations for the heating season.

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

The population has not been counted in over 30 years.

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

5,000 volunteers have been mobilized for the phase-three trial.

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

One hundred years after the Red Army established the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, residents are ambivalent about its meaning.

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.

Officials say Uzbekistan plans to produce its own vaccine when tests are done.