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armenia elections
OpinionOpinion9 Jun

Armenia keeps its course, on less than half the vote

Civil Contract will govern alone for a third term on 49.81 percent of the vote, its lowest winning share since Nikol Pashinyan took power. The campaign that delivered it is the part the celebration skips.

Aigerim Bekova column
OpinionBrief8 Jun

Fifty companies

Kyrgyzstan shut down fifty companies on a list provided by Washington and London. The part of the story that got less attention: it was a list of fifty-one.

Riga Baku SPb
OpinionOpinion7 Jun

Forum week: Baku signed, St. Petersburg celebrated, Riga quietly worked

Three gatherings, one week, one pipeline. A tour of the parallel universes of Eurasian energy diplomacy.

 The Editor. Tags: Armenia, Elections, Pashinyan, Russia, EU, EAEU
OpinionOpinion6 Jun

Armenia on the eve: what the campaign actually settled

Tomorrow Armenians vote. The result looks predictable. The questions it raises are not.

Putin & Tokayev
OpinionOpinion29 May

The Tsar, the Steppe, and the Very Friendly Lunch

What Vladimir Putin’s second state visit to Kazakhstan really said β€” and what everyone agreed not to say out loud