Coal mining export earnings set to once more drive growth, but country badly needs to wean itself off fossil fuel revenues. Creation of a sovereign wealth fund a move in that direction.
Under the influence of electoral calculations for the year 2024, political processes in Georgia and Moldova have acquired a geopolitical component of significant proportions.
Although Armenia and Azerbaijan are now the closest they have been to signing a peace treaty in the last 30 years, there is a high probability that it will not be signed.
The early withdrawal of the Russian peacekeeping contingent from the Karabakh region in Azerbaijan is a pivotal event for the South Caucasus.
Researcher says Kazakhstan is no mere “node in Beijing’s transregional geoeconomic strategy”. Such thinking obscures Chinese actors’ adaptive approach to local interests and overlooks gains Kazakhstani actors “skillfully extracted”.
Freezing Georgia’s progress towards EU accession over the ‘foreign agents’ bill could alienate the Georgian population and bring much joy to the EU’s adversaries.
The Great Game’s got a new name.
There’s a high probability that a new geopolitical balance can be established in the South Caucasus where Russia will finally be absent.
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan going ahead with “Birlestik-2024”. Russian consternation is growing.
The destabilisation of Eastern Europe created a paradigm shift in terms of EU enlargement.
France is taking independent steps regarding the South Caucasus, as French President Emmanuel Macron attempts to bolster his role as a top European leader.
Scruffy trolleybus passengers and wayward daughters-in-law among Akylbek Japarov’s targets, as well as that old favourite, lavish wedding receptions.
Candidate states for EU accession such as Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia remain in a zone of insecurity where Russia can intervene minimally in a hybrid way.
Uzbekistan is moving towards opening its local debt market up to international investors to create a new source of funding that could be worth billions of dollars a year.
Delving into pivotal shifts of Uzbekistan's capital market seen throughout 2023, Odil Musaev, managing director at investment banking boutique Alkes Research, offers some insights.