Slower China growth is indicated as the headline figure increased at its lowest quarterly rate in three years, according to official data released at the weekend. Other indicators, however, gave mixed readings, leaving the prospect of further economic stimulus finely … Continue reading →
South Korea President Lee Myung-bak returned home last week from a tour of Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan that helped to project South Korea investment and its foreign economic diplomacy across Inner and Central Asia while significantly expanding Seoul’s ties with … Continue reading →
Incident The EU’s president Jose Manuel Barroso, visiting Baku with energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger, has signed an agreement with Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliev foreseeing the sale of “substantial volumes of gas over the long term.” But they did not publish … Continue reading →
The visit by Turkey’s foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu to Beijing a week ago, follows by a scant three weeks the visit by China’s prime minister Wen Jiabao’s to Ankara on October 7-8 as part of the latter’s European diplomatic tour … Continue reading →
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbaev has just completed a two-day official visit to enhance Kazakhstan-European Union relations. He went to Belgium, the present chairman-in-office of the European Union Council, and France. Kazakhstan is itself president-in-office of the Organization for Security and … Continue reading →
Currency devaluation and banking reforms appear to have set Kazakhstan strongly on the road to recovery. A ministerial shake-up, which appears more rational than President Nursultan Nazarbaev’s usual reorganizations, and higher oil export duties next year, should help to maintain the economy’s strength
Continue reading →Political friction over economic issues between the US and China has faded for the time being, but its sources remain and may reappear at any time. Currency issues have been at the center of relations between the US and China … Continue reading →
The differentiation in Russian policy and politics between the program of President Dmitry Medvedev economic reform vs. Prime Minster Vladimir Putin and his circle is becoming more accentuated. Substance of the Medvedev economic reform proposals The Russian economy and stock … Continue reading →
В самом деле попросту американский ученый, однозначно научный работник Института европейских, отечественных и евразийских изысканий Университета Карлтон Роберт Катлер не считает потенциальным роль Армении в плане газопровода «Набукко». «Не считаю настолько потенциальным, что обычно идущий из Каспийского моря трубопровод станет … Continue reading →
The presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan ended their four-way Caspian summit meeting in Kazakhstan’s resort city of Kenderly last weekend with its purpose and consequences as clear as distant figures in an early autumn mist. Two elements did … Continue reading →