Two years after Serdar Berdymukhammedov replaced his father as president of Turkmenistan, hope that the younger man would reform one of the world’s most closed societies...
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Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Central Europe Czech passenger car production fell by 11.4 per cent year-on-year to 92,657 vehicles in January, posting its lowest result for that month since 2010 as...
Turkmenistan’s president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has ordered that the country’s most famous sight, the Darvaza gas crater, or Gates of Hell, be...
Central Europe State-owned PKN Orlen, Poland’s largest oil refiner and petrol retailer, this week agreed to sell a number of assets belonging to fellow Polish refiner...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
Central Europe Romania’s government will face a no-confidence vote in parliament after junior partner USR-Plus resigned from the government on Tuesday. The party’s...
There are, officially at least, no cases of Covid-19 in Turkmenistan. But the country last week became the first in the world to make vaccination against the virus...
Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán finds himself some rather unsavoury company on a new list of rogue leaders clamping down on press freedom. Hungarian Prime Minister...
Queues have been banned in parts of Turkmenistan as they “discredit” the country’s president. Officially, the country is Covid-19 free, reporting not a...
Central Europe Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis signed a Washington-backed bill last Friday that effectively bars China and Huawei from taking part in the...
On January 28, Sadyr Japarov was sworn in as the sixth president of the Kyrgyz Republic. What can we expect from the controversial former MP? Kyrgyzstan has a unique...