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By Rhod Mackenzie

The 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Member States is scheduled for Thursday in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

This will be the first face-to-face meeting of the prime ministers of the SCO member states subse...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The US president Joe Biden hopes to meet the presidents of the Central Asian states on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on either 19 or 20 September. This will be the first time that negotiations have been held at the level of heads of state, as opposed to foreign ministe...

By Dmitry Skvortsov

The EU's refusal to purchase Russian electricity has become one of the most important points of the West's sanctions program against the economy of the country. However, the effect of this measure turned out to be the opposite: the sanctions stimulated the resumption of a whole...