American car executives keep insisting that there is no trade-off between saving the planet and having a hell of a good time behind the wheel. “What I find...
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THIS SPRING, I was invited to an Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers, convened in the Trusteeship Council Chamber at the New York headquarters of the...
For all the tumult and disruptions of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. labor markets have come out on the other side not far from the strong conditions that...
Goldman Sachs predicts that European natural gas prices would drop by about 30% in the coming months as nations gain a temporary upper hand on supply issues...
Kazakhstan is again looking to the potential of a Trans-Caspian pipeline, but do plans to diversify oil export routes just hitch the Kazakh economy further to...
Eurasia certainly needs confidence-building measures, but whether the CICA summit can make progress amid many regional difficulties is unclear. This week, the...
Astana, Kazakhstan (5/11 – 40). Kenes Rakishev is one of the most influential people in Kazakhstan. Kenes is also a respected advisor to the government of...
The world’s top cocoa producers, Ghana and Ivory Coast, are boycotting meetings in Brussels this week of the World Cocoa Foundation on cocoa...
Elvira Kudryashova – businesswoman, toy merchant, and professional money launderer – has had a harder life than most of us will ever know. She was...
Turkey’s Erdogan makes a visit to Astana to expand their strategic partnership and bilateral trade President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is slated to pay a two-day...