The 23 countries of emerging Europe and the five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan make use of many sub-regional...
Tag - Commonwealth of Independent States
Lesser countries with lesser leaders have previously been hamstrung by wars on their doorsteps. Moldova, blessed with a president of steely determination, has instead...
When a plane carrying CSTO forces arrived in Kazakhstan late on January 5, it was the first time that the alliance had deployed forces to intervene in a conflict in a...
Fake handbags, fake watches and – increasingly – fake electronics are a common sight at flea markets across the world. The goods, often of dubious quality...
Improved economic policy frameworks have helped Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Black Sea sovereigns recover from the 2014 commodity price slump and Ukraine...
Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, confidently suggested last week that when the country’s national bank issues its final figures for 2019, growth in the...
Mikhail Myasnikovich, the chairman of the Council of the Republic of Belarus, has announced the Belarusian government’s plans to establish trans-Eurasian companies...
The Airport Association of CIS Civil Aviation, an aviation NGO in the Commonwealth of Independent States, has awarded Minsk Airport in Belarus with the title of CIS Best...
Belarusian Prime Minister Sergey Rumas has called for the establishment of a full-scale free trade zone within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a regional...
Is Vladimir Putin seeking to annex neighbouring Belarus and reunite former territories of the Soviet Union under Moscow’s control? Is Belarusian leader Aleksander...
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) latest Global Competitiveness Report shows that much of emerging Europe continues to lag behind the rest of the continent. “The greatest...