Uzbekistan’s hardest-working students see China as a promising alternative to America and Europe. They often learn about opportunities on social media.
The country’s power companies are $1.5 billion in debt, but attempts to raise household electricity prices have previously run into violent public resistance.
Following last year’s Armenia-Azerbaijan war, officials said there would soon be passenger flights at Stepanakert’s long-closed airport. Now that looks again like a distant prospect.
Although Turkmenistan is rarely mentioned as a prospective member of the Moscow-led EAEU trading bloc, that notion is quite obviously on the Kremlin’s mind. Our weekly briefing.
