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Hormuz Is No Longer Enough - Iran Looks North as a New Eurasian Trade Map Emerges

For decades, Iran’s economic geography pointed south. Its oil terminals, largest commercial ports and access to Asian markets depended overwhelmingly on the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

By EuroAsia.News · 27 September 2026 · 21:55 · 3 min read

• Iran
• Hormuz

Afghanistan’s Railway Corridor - The 140-Year Attempt to Connect Iran, Central Asia and China.

Afghanistan is one of Eurasia’s great geographical crossroads — yet it entered the 21st century without a national railway.

By EuroAsia.News · 21 September 2026 · 00:00 · 5 min read

• Afghanistan
• Iran
• China
• EuroAsia
• Railway Corridor -

Colombo Port City - Sri Lanka’s Bid to Build a South Asian Alternative to Dubai

Colombo’s new Special Economic Zone is moving from reclaimed land and master plans into operating businesses, construction and foreign investment.

By EuroAsia.News · 20 September 2026 · 12:53 · 3 min read

• Sri Lanka
• Asia
• Business
• Dubai
• Free Zone

Armenia Moves Closer to the EU Market as Parliament Approves Trade Liberalisation

Armenia’s economic reorientation toward new export markets has taken another important step after the European Parliament overwhelmingly approved temporary trade-liberalisation measures that would remove tariffs from a broad range of Armenian goods entering the European Union.

By EuroAsia.News · 17 September 2026 · 12:35 · 2 min read

• EU
• Armenia
• Russia

China Becomes Georgia’s Largest Foreign Investor as Eurasian Capital Flows Shift

China has become Georgia’s largest source of foreign direct investment for the first time in the latest quarterly data, accounting for almost half of all FDI entering the country during the second quarter of 2026 and highlighting the growing economic relationship between Beijing and the strategically located South Caucasus state.

By EuroAsia.News · 17 September 2026 · 00:00 · 6 min read

• China
• Georgia
• EuroAsia
• Middle Corridor

Kyrgyzstan’s Wartime Boom - How the Ukraine War Rewired a Central Asian Economy

Few countries have benefited economically from the geopolitical shock of the Ukraine war as visibly as Kyrgyzstan.

By EuroAsia.News · 16 September 2026 · 10:33 · 3 min read

• Russia
• Ukraine
• Kyrgyzstan
• Economy

Russia Lost Europe — But Is Building a Bigger Gas Market in Asia

For half a century, Russian gas flowed west. Germany, Italy, Austria and much of Central Europe became connected to Siberian gas fields through an enormous pipeline network, while Gazprom built one of the world's most profitable energy-export businesses.

By EuroAsia.News · 14 September 2026 · 00:00 · 3 min read

• EU
• Economy
• Gas
• Energy
• Russia

BRICS Pay Moves From Talk Toward Reality - Finance Chiefs Back Connected Payment Systems

BRICS has taken another concrete step toward building a cross-border payment architecture connecting its member economies. Meeting in India ahead of this weekend’s leaders’ summit in New Delhi, BRICS finance ministers and central-bank governors formally backed continued work on making national payment systems interoperable and developing faster, cheaper and safer cross-border payments.

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 23:00 · 4 min read

• EuroAsia
• BRICS
• Dollar

India Puts a Permanent Eye Over Asia - Why EOS-05 Is More Than Another Satellite Launch

India has successfully placed a new type of eye above the Earth — one designed not simply to pass over a region once or twice a day, but to observe enormous areas repeatedly from almost 36,000 kilometers above the planet.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 18:56 · 3 min read

Mongolia’s Next Transformation - From Landlocked State to Eurasian Transport Hub

For decades Mongolia’s geography seemed a disadvantage. With no seaport and only Russia and China as neighbours, the country depended on a few border crossings to reach world markets. Ulaanbaatar is now trying to turn that geography into an asset, positioning Mongolia as a transport, logistics, energy and processing bridge between Northeast Asia, Central Asia and Europe.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 11:18 · 2 min read

• EurAsia
• Mongoloia
• China
• Russia
• Transport Corridor

Eastern Economic Forum Closes with Nearly 7 Trillion Rubles in Deals — But the Bigger Story Is How Much the Far East Has Already Changed

The 2026 Eastern Economic Forum ended in Vladivostok with hundreds of agreements, new transport and industrial projects and another expansion of Russia's economic relationship with Asia. Yet behind the headline contracts is a broader transformation: after more than a decade of preferential investment regimes, subsidised housing and even free land, the Russian Far East is beginning to look very different from the region that entered the first EEF in 2015.

By EuroAsia.News · 4 September 2026 · 19:42 · 4 min read

• EuroAsia
• Russia
• News
• Economy

From Vladivostok to the Chinese Shopping Cart

At the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russian-Chinese cooperation is moving from declarations to the consumer’s screen. The Russian Export Center (REC) is using the 2026 forum to stage its first “Made in Russia” online festival there, linking Russian producers with Chinese marketplaces, livestream hosts and millions of buyers. Around 100 applications came from makers of food, drinks, cosmetics, toys and souvenirs.

By EuroAsia.News · 3 September 2026 · 00:30 · 2 min read

• Vladivostok
• China
• Made in Russia
• Food
• Online

The Big Talk of Pashinyan - Who Does He Think He Is Fooling?

Nikol Pashinyan arrived at the SCO summit in Bishkek talking about “multipolarity”, strategic relations with Russia and Armenia's desire to cooperate with everyone. Yet behind the diplomatic language lies a contradiction that becomes harder to disguise: Armenia has legally launched a process toward European Union membership while continuing to enjoy the economic advantages of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union. How long can Yerevan really sit on two chairs?

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 22:14 · 3 min read

• EU
• EAEU
• Armenia
• Russia
• EuroAsia

Digital Ruble vs Digital Yuan - Can Russia and China Build a Sanctions-Resistant Payment Network?

Russia's mass-market digital ruble rollout begins just as China's digital yuan is moving increasingly into cross-border trade. Together, the two systems raise a strategically important possibility: direct digital settlement between two of Eurasia's largest economies without depending on dollar clearing or Western correspondent banks. The technology increasingly exists. The more difficult questions are interoperability, exchange rates, regulation and whether Beijing actually wants to move that quickly.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 10:53 · 4 min read

• Crypto
• Economy
• Russia
• China
• Finance
• Trade

SCO vs G7 - Which Bloc Has the Greater Economic Power?

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the G7 represent two very different concentrations of global power. The G7 remains substantially richer in nominal dollar terms and dominates international finance, while the SCO contains more than four times as many people, enormous energy and mineral resources and — measured by purchasing power — an economy that is already larger. The comparison shows why the economic centre of gravity is steadily shifting toward Eurasia.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 09:04 · 4 min read

• Eurasia
• G7
• SCO
• Europe
• Trade
• Economy

SCO at 25 - From Border-Security Group to a Eurasian Powerhouse

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation marks its 25th anniversary at its summit in Bishkek with China, Russia, India and the major powers of Central Asia around the same table. What began in 2001 as a security organisation of six states has developed into a Eurasian grouping representing more than 3.4 billion people, around a quarter of the global economy and some of the world's largest reserves of energy and strategic minerals. The central question for its next 25 years is whether that enormous potential can be converted into deeper economic integration.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 08:42 · 4 min read

• Eurasia
• Middle Corridor
• Nordic Route
• Trans Caspian
• Energy

Vladivostok 2026: Russia’s Eastern Economic Forum Opens With Asia at the Centre

The 11th Eastern Economic Forum opens in Vladivostok on 1 September with representatives from more than 70 countries expected, major delegations from across Asia and a growing pipeline of investment projects. After three successive years of record deal-making, Moscow is presenting the Russian Far East not as a remote frontier but as one of the principal gateways connecting Russia with China, India, Southeast Asia and the Arctic.

By EuroAsia.News · 31 August 2026 · 14:40 · 3 min read

• Eastern Economic Forum
• EEF 2026
• Vladivostok
• Russia
• Russian Far East
• investment
• China
• India
• Indonesia
• Prabowo Subianto
• Vladimir Putin
• Northern Sea Route
• Eurasia

After Ukraine, the Arctic? NATO Builds a New Front Against Russia in the High North

As the war in Ukraine enters its fifth year without a decisive military outcome, NATO is rapidly expanding its military posture in the Arctic. The alliance calls the buildup deterrence against a growing "Russian threat". Moscow sees the same deployments as a direct threat to its territory. The danger is that a region once presented as a model of cooperation could become the next major front line between Russia and the West.

By EuroAsia.News · 31 August 2026 · 12:20 · 3 min read

• Arctic
• Europe
• Nato
• Russia

Russia’s Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet - The Power Behind Moscow’s Arctic Strategy

Russia’s nuclear-powered icebreakers give Moscow a capability no other country currently possesses at comparable scale. Eight nuclear vessels are in service, more are being built, and the Kremlin is betting that an expanded fleet will turn the Northern Sea Route into one of Eurasia’s most important transport corridors. Yet sanctions, ageing Soviet-era ships and increasingly demanding Arctic operations are testing that advantage.

By EuroAsia.News · 30 August 2026 · 16:52 · 6 min read

• Arctic
• Shipping
• Eurasia
• Economy

Armenia's European Dream - Economic Suicide or Necessary Diversification?

Between Russian Market and EU Aspirations — How a Landlocked Nation Risks Repeating the Pernod Ricard Lesson, Trading Its Largest Market for Unproven Promises, While Facing a 23% GDP Contraction and the Loss of Its Traditional Export Lifeline.

By EuroAsia.News · 24 August 2026 · 19:46 · 4 min read

• Economy
• Trade
• EU
• Russia

Ruble, Yuan and Euro: How Eurasia's Currency Map Is Changing

Eurasia's currency map is shifting away from Western financial systems toward a multipolar model driven by the Chinese yuan, the Russian ruble, and a consolidating euro.

By EuroAsia.News · 22 August 2026 · 19:11 · 3 min read

• Finance

The Digital Silk Way - Eurasia's New Digital Corridor

How a 380-kilometre submarine cable beneath the Caspian Sea is creating the first direct high-speed data bridge between Asia and Europe—bypassing traditional routes through Russia and the Red Sea, reshaping regional geopolitics, and laying the foundation for a new era of digital connectivity in Eurasia.

By EuroAsia.News · 22 August 2026 · 09:23 · 4 min read

• Eurasia
• Digital

The Battle of Mohács - A 500-Year Legacy of Catastrophe and Transformation

How the 1526 Ottoman Victory Annihilated Hungary's Medieval Kingdom, Killed Its Young King, Triggered a Succession Crisis That Split the Nation, and Ultimately Redrew the Political and Cultural Map of Central Europe for Centuries

By EuroAsia.News · 21 August 2026 · 12:14 · 5 min read

• Hungary
• History
• EuroAsia

Beyond Revolut: How Eurasia Is Reshaping Digital Banking

Revolut became the symbol of Europe's fintech revolution. But branchless digital banking was already being built in Eurasia years earlier — and today's regional leaders are taking the model beyond banking into payments, commerce, investment and super-app ecosystems.

By EuroAsia.News · 20 August 2026 · 14:19 · 3 min read

• Finance
• Banking
• SuperApps

Kazakhstan and Europe Put $462 Million Behind the Middle Corridor

Four agreements spanning roads, Black Sea logistics, container shipping and airport digitalisation show how the Trans-Caspian route is evolving into a broader Eurasian transport system.

By EuroAsia.News · 20 August 2026 · 13:39 · 2 min read

• Middle Corridor
• Eurasia
• Transport

The Steel Silk Road

How China-Europe Rail is Entering its Express Era

By EuroAsia.News · 19 August 2026 · 22:15 · 3 min read

• Eurasia
• Transport
• Rail

The Middle Corridor Moves From Geopolitical Backup To Eurasian Logistics Business

The Trans-Caspian route linking China with Europe through Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Türkiye is rapidly gaining capacity. Its next challenge is not political support, but whether multiple railways, ports, ferries and customs systems can operate like one predictable logistics product.

By EuroAsia.News · 19 August 2026 · 17:33 · 3 min read

Russia’s Skif Synchrotron Nears First Light — A New Scientific Powerhouse In Siberia

Russia’s first fourth-generation synchrotron radiation source is entering its decisive commissioning phase near Novosibirsk. Designed to reveal the structure of matter at atomic and nanoscale levels, SKIF could become one of Eurasia’s most advanced research facilities.

By EuroAsia.News · 19 August 2026 · 17:26 · 3 min read

• Science
• Technology

Japan’s Farmers Are Becoming Nocturnal As Extreme Heat Reshapes Agriculture

From harvesting flowers after dark to feeding chickens before sunrise, Japanese agriculture is changing its working day as farmers struggle with increasingly dangerous summer temperatures.

By EuroAsia.News Climate Desk · 18 August 2026 · 10:42 · 2 min read

• Asia
• Climate
• Agriculture
• Economy

Kazakhstan Caught Between America And China In The New AI Silk Road

Kazakhstan has joined technology initiatives led by both Washington and Beijing, placing Central Asia directly inside the emerging geopolitical contest over AI, semiconductors and critical minerals.

By EuroAsia.News · 18 August 2026 · 00:39 · 2 min read

The Ice Silk Road

Will it be the route of the future?

By EuroAsia.News · 17 August 2026 · 18:07 · 5 min read

• Arctic
• Shipping
• Eurasia
• Economy

The Vanishing Caspian: Eurasia’s Largest Lake Is Becoming Its Next Environmental Crisis

The Caspian Sea is retreating at an alarming rate. Water levels have fallen by approximately 2.5 meters over the past 30 years, including almost one meter since 2020.

By EuroAsia.News Editorial · 16 August 2026 · 17:37 · 2 min read

• Caspian Sea
• Aral Sea
• water
• Kazakhstan

Greater Eurasia: Europe Is Choosing Isolation Over Prosperity

The concept of “Greater Eurasia” envisions the vast territory between the Atlantic and Pacific not as competing political blocs, but as an interconnected economic space.

By EuroAsia.News Editorial · 16 August 2026 · 13:15 · 2 min read

• Greater Eurasia
• trade
• geopolitics
• energy

From Cards to Wearables: Asia’s Next Payment Revolution

Asia’s payment revolution is moving beyond the plastic card. Consumers increasingly pay by tapping contactless watches, rings and wristbands, or by scanning QR codes with mobile wallets.

By EuroAsia.News Editorial · 16 August 2026 · 12:00 · 1 min read

• payments
• fintech
• QR
• Asia