They target politicians who enriched themselves by selling coal to China. Thirty-five people are under investigation, including former president Khaltmaagiyn Battulga. Coal mining accounts for 25% of the national GDP. The Mongols want to free themselves from the cloak of isolation and lawlessness.
National Movement presidential candidates chosen. Outgoing leader Melia is favoured. All four contenders call for the release of former president Saakashvili. The pro-Western formation challenges the pro-Kremlin Georgian Dream currently in power.
The Republic of Tatarstan issues manual for learning the UDMURT language. Small signs of the periphery's independence from Moscow emerge. The growing centrality of the Tatars. With the Ukrainian crisis, the suggestion of a Tatar-Bashkian state between the Urals and the Volga returns.
He challenges his Moscow counterpart Kirill on the historical ideology of 'panslavism'. No to nationalist heresy, yes to original apostolic universalism. In the Russian Orthodox world religion is exploited for political and ideological reasons. The help of the Church of Rome is needed to overcome the differences between "Greeks and Russians".
New military agreement between Tajikistan and Beijing. The region's former Soviet republics are increasingly looking to the Chinese in the face of Putin's belligerent Russia. After the growth of economic relations, security relations between Central Asian countries and China are growing.
Convicts are released to fight on Ukrainian soil. Many desert to return to crime. The role of the Wagner mercenary agency. Military weapons used for criminal acts in Russia. The danger of a new war between organised crime cartels.
90% of the thousands of protesters are high school students. Two investigations into the supply of ore to China opened. 15 officials under investigation. Official media are silent about the demonstrations and social networks are blocked. Suspicions that an internal struggle within the ruling party may be behind the riots.
57 dollars a month withheld from their salaries. Inspections and dismissals for those who refuse. Each school will have to take charge of between 5 and 10 children. Entrepreneurs who collect funds for children in difficulty accused by the state of 'charitable excesses'. The authorities refuse to acknowledge the social problems linked to the economic crisis.
Russian ships launch missiles at Ukrainian targets from the sea. According to an agreement, the Caspian should only be used for peaceful purposes. So far no objections from Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Their silence is a form of connivance with the massacre of the Ukrainians.
Group of Russian dissidents met in Lithuania. Expresses concern over the 'weariness' towards the war shown by the Europeans and the US. Western aid the only key to allow the Ukrainians victory. Putin waits for the right moment to strike.
The two international 'pariahs' put up a common front against Western sanctions. Cooperation in the military field, with the Russians using Iranian drones in Ukraine. The centrepiece is energy cooperation. However, the Islamic Republic would like to replace Russia as gas supplier to Europe.
Newly re-elected to the presidency, the Astana leader meets Putin in Russia. Historic economic relations between the two sides underlined. Kazakhstan seeks a balance between the Kremlin and China. With the involvement of the EU, the former Soviet republic aims to confirm itself as a bridge between East and West.
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