Over the last few years, the issue of future European energy supply has been an increasingly geopolitical and securitised topic. It has become more and more linked to...
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Economies in the emerging Europe and Central Asia region are on course to contract by 4.4 per cent this year, the worst recession since the global financial crisis of...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is forecasting a deeper economic contraction and softer recovery in 2021 for its region, saying the fallout...
In Kyrgyzstan, medics suffer rights violations, and pay high personal price during Covid-19 pandemic
Health workers in Kyrgyzstan have paid an astoundingly high personal price during the Covid-19 pandemic, which has seen them forced to work long hours, often without...
Geographical distance is not the only thing separating Central Asia from the rest of emerging Europe. What makes the so-called Five Stans unique in the post-communist...
Innovative start-ups may not be the first thing that springs to mind when Central Asia is mentioned, but the region has in recent years been quietly carving itself a...
A project to build a ring road around Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, has reached its financial close with a financing package of 585 million US dollars (496...
The World Bank has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic could have a detrimental and long-lasting impact on education and human capital, economic and social development in...
For the first time since the late 1990s Kazakhstan’s economy is expected to contract by projected three per cent in 2020 before a moderate recovery of 2.5 per cent in...
The number of international tourists visiting Georgia continued to grow in July with the overall number increasing by eight per cent to around 2.7 million during the...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) senior representatives across the region provide updates on the transition in various key markets.