Kazakhstan’s aviation industry is showing signs of rapid recovery as restrictions linked to the COVID pandemic are gradually lifted.

Uzbekistan’s state-owned oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz will issue an international bond worth up to $700 million to diversify foreign financial sources and transform the country’s energy system.

The Kuril chain of more than 50 islands stretches 1,200 km from the southern tip of the Kamchatka peninsula to within sight of Japan’s northernmost Island, Hokkaido.