Eurasia / Features

Chinese companies have become a locomotive for change in Central Asia, says EDB

Ben Aris in Berlin March 28, 2024

Chinese companies are actively investing in the Eurasian countries and have become a locomotive for change as the world becomes smaller. Now they are building ties with the multilateral development banks in the region.

Uzbekistan MTO: plastics in the steppe

Ben Aris in Bukhara March 27, 2024

Georgian government crackdown on 'LGBTQ+ propaganda' risks EU aspirations

Tornike Mandaria in Tbilisi March 26, 2024

Georgian Dream push for conservative votes ahead of autumn general election could endanger accession aspirations, say critics.

Uzbek oil company Saneg squeezes the last drop of oil from the tube

Ben Aris in Tashkent March 25, 2024

In 2019 the Cabinet of Ministers set up the company Saneg and transferred the ownership of 103 depleted oil fields to see if the company can squeeze a little more oil out of them, as Uzbekistan has an oil deficit and wants to reduce imports.

German companies are entering a new game on the Azerbaijani field

Seymur Mammadov in Baku March 22, 2024

The working visit of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to Munich, to attend the Security Conference in February, was marked by significant negotiations with the managing director of the German Eastern Business Association, Michael Harms.

Closing gender gap in workforce could double global growth rate says World Bank

Clare Nuttall in Glasgow March 8, 2024

Countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia have a lower gender gap than the global average but only Latvian women have equal legal standing with men.

Kyrgyzstan: Officials brush aside uranium anxieties over Kyzyl-Ompol field

Eurasianet March 5, 2024

Experts have voiced safety concerns over the field in the past, but such objections are now being silenced.

Mongolia urged to “open door” to Russian Mongols who want return to ancestral roots

Antonio Graceffo in Ulaanbaatar March 2, 2024

Campaigners want compatriots law that would apply to peoples of Russia’s Buddhist republics and minorities with Mongolic origins the world over.

Kyrgyzstan: As net tightens around Matraimov, Japarov is clearing field of viable threats

Ayzirek Imanaliyeva for Eurasianet March 1, 2024

All the corrupt former customs chief's one-time allies are scrambling to disavow him.

Azerbaijan developing significant gold, copper and other minerals resources

Seymur Mammadov in Baku February 26, 2024

The British company Anglo Asian Mining, which mines gold, silver, and copper in Azerbaijan, has completed a preliminary assessment of the mineral resources of the Kharkhar copper deposit. The country has significant deposits of many minerals.

World Bank says Emerging Europe needs tougher targets to reach net zero by 2060

Aidą Kadyrzhanova in Prague February 22, 2024

New World Bank report charts path to net zero energy in Emerging Europe and Central Asia, but says current ambitions are too modest.

PANNIER: There’s 21st century "gold" in them thar Central Asian hills

Bruce Pannier February 22, 2024

Poor nations Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan hoping for a critical raw materials bonanza.

Azerbaijani automotive industry motoring ahead

Seymur Mammadov in Baku Ben Aris in Berlin February 20, 2024

Russian automaker AvtoVaz is moving into Azerbaijan and in talks to set up the large-scale assembly of its famous Lada family of vehicles in the country.

Who produces oil and gas in Uzbekistan?

Newsbase February 19, 2024

Uzbekistan is not a major exporter of energy resources, unlike neighbouring Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, though it is home to quite substantial hydrocarbon resources.

PANNIER: Russia the loser as wider world of migrant work opens up to Uzbek citizens

Bruce Pannier February 9, 2024

Germany, South Korea and Israel look to Uzbekistan to fill 160,000 or more job vacancies. Tashkent likely keen to diversify sources of remittances.

How the Mongolians punch above their weight in military diplomacy

Antonio Graceffo in Ulaanbaatar February 8, 2024

Mongolia leverages unique heritage of armed forces to build bridges with nations as far away as US and India.

Azerbaijan’s Aliyev re-elected president

Seymur Mammadov in Baku February 8, 2024

Snap presidential elections were held in Azerbaijan on February 7, at which the incumbent president, Ilham Aliyev, claimed victory. According to preliminary results, he received over 92% of the votes.

The EU joins the global transport competition, proposes a Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor

Ben Aris in Berlin February 6, 2024

The global pandemic, the war in Ukraine, rising tensions between China and the West and the increasingly fractured world has forced the global economy to remake its major transport routes. Now the EU is getting in on the game.

Is Tajikistan’s succession saga any closer to the end?

Eurasianet February 5, 2024

Rustam Emomali is increasingly the face of his country on the international stage.

The Middle Corridor set to halve cargo transit time between Asia and Europe

Seymur Mammadov in Baku February 1, 2024

As Russia experiences the impact of sanctions and restrictions in trade and economic relations with a number of countries, Central Asian countries and China are exploring new routes to increase their exports to Europe while bypassing Russia.

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