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Caucasus - Eurasianet
WEBSep 25, 2024 — Tbilisi’s geopolitical pivot injects uncertainty into export growth prospects. News and analysis from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and conflict zones in the South Caucasus: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh.
What if the Soviet Union had not Collapsed? - Eurasianet
WEBNov 7, 2017. As states go, the Soviet Union died young. It also never made it to where it really wanted to be: communism. The first socialist state – and empire, and then superpower – did not die innocent or, actually, without achievements. It has left humanity a rich record of stifling bureaucracy, ideological mulishness, and, last but not ...
Uzbekistan: Where the Amu Darya goes to die | Eurasianet
WEBNov 10, 2022 — In Urgench, men fish in the Shavat Canal. (photos by David Trilling) 225 miles upstream from where the Aral Sea used to be: Water gurgles out of sprinklers, coaxing thick tufts of marigold and hibiscus from the loamy soil before pooling on the hot cement sidewalks. This afternoon ritual playing out all around Urgench makes the city of 200,000 in the middle of Uzbekistan’s Khorezm oasis bloom ...
Georgian banks' dilemma: To sanction or not to sanction
WEBOct 13, 2023 — A Eurasianet source in one of Georgia's largest banks said that the banking sector is not too happy with the change. "On one hand, NBG shook off the responsibility and passed the buck on to us [commercial banks]. On the other hand, they retained the right to override whatever decision we make, if politicians tell them to do so," the source said.
Eurasian Economic Union: Many Problems, Few Solutions
WEBDec 5, 2017 — Eurasian Economic Union: Many Problems, Few Solutions. The squabble between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan was relatively petty, but the cracks that their dispute exposed in the Eurasian Economic Union, a trading bloc to which they both belong, are proving harder than ever to paper over. In mid-October, …
Turkmenistan - Eurasianet
WEBSep 20, 2024 — Turkmenistan’s balance of trade with China tilting heavily in Ashgabat’s favor. Despite big deficit, Beijing treats Turkmenistan like a supplicant. China-Central Asia Monitor Jun 3, 2024.
Azerbaijan's Russian gas deal raises uncomfortable questions for …
WEBNov 22, 2022 — A platform in Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field (photo: BP) Azerbaijan has begun importing gas from Russia under a deal which should enable Baku to meet its own domestic demand but which raises serious questions over its recent agreement to boost exports to Europe. Russia's state gas producer and exporter Gazprom announced on November 18 that it ...
Karakalpakstan: Dazed, confused and angry after deadly turmoil
WEBJul 7, 2022 — Relatives of the detained wait outside a police station for news. (all photos by Joanna Lillis) When Nukus, the capital of the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan, awoke on July 3 to a state of emergency imposed after two days of violent unrest, it was as a city traumatized.. At the local morgue, a man emerged weeping just after identifying the body of one of 18 people ...
Perspectives | Who were the Caucasian Albanians? - Eurasianet
WEBJun 7, 2021 — Following Azerbaijan’s victory over Armenia in the 2020 Second Karabakh War, the country has seen a large-scale revival of attention to an obscure, extinct group once prominent in the region: the Caucasian Albanians. In particular, the Azerbaijani government and associated scholars have been heavily …