The Cyrillic alphabet has long been heavily politicised, and a nation’s use of it often leads to incorrect assumptions about its geopolitics. The Cyrillic alphabet is...
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Leading Uzbek firms, such as home appliance giant Artel, are making international best practice ESG standards a key part of their business strategies. When Uzbek home...
Central Europe Slovakia has imposed a strict lockdown, including a curfew, as it is struggling to curb one of the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks. The government...
On the environment and protecting our planet’s future, governments are better off sharing knowledge and collaborating on sustainable solutions. Long before COP26 drew to...
Central Europe The crisis on Poland’s border with Belarus will last months, the Polish defence minister said on Wednesday, as several thousand migrants remained...
Money sent home by migrant workers accounts for more than a quarter of GDP in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Remittances sent home by migrant workers, a key source of income...
Central Europe The European Union has moved a step closer to penalising Belarus for a crisis on its border with Poland, where hundreds of migrants from the Middle East...
Since taking office in 2016 Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has introduced some encouraging reforms, most notably in cleaning up the country’s cotton industry...
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 Tensions between China and one of its sharpest adversaries in the European Union deepened this week when legislators from Czechia welcomed Taiwan’s...
Central Europe Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis nominated retired four-star army general Nicolae Ciucă as prime minister designate on Thursday, tasking him with...
Estonia again leads emerging Europe in adherence to the rule of law, and there is marked improvement in Uzbekistan and Moldova. Uzbekistan in Central Asia and Moldova in...
Central Europe Romanian doctors sent an open letter Wednesday titled “a cry of despair” as the country’s overwhelmed and deteriorated health care system copes with a...