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Russia’s resurrected military industrial complex is cannibalising the rest of its economy Ukraine is slowly losing the three-year conflict on the battlefield. Russia is slowly losing the economic conflict at…

Tajikistan’s existential project to build the colossal 335-meter-high Roghun hydropower dam is proceeding apace, but costs are spiraling, and to a level that is making it hard to see where…

Armenia shot from relative obscurity to global prominence recently over tensions with neighboring Azerbaijan. But there is another reason to pay attention to this rugged, mountainous country: its fast evolving…