Clare Nuttall in Almaty
Wed, 16th Nov -- The recent earthquake in Turkey may have sparked fresh calls for the closure of Armenia's ageing Metsamor nuclear power plant, but with Yerevan struggling to find the $5bn needed to build a replacement, they are likely to fall on deaf ears.

David O'Byrne in Istanbul
Mon, 14th Nov -- At first glance, a new gas deal between two countries on the south-east fringes of Europe should have little bearing on the energy security of the continent as a whole. However, a deal struck between Turkey and Azerbaijan could well lay the foundations for the energy security of the EU for some decades to come.

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Fri, 11th Nov -- Kazakhstan is expected to hold early parliamentary elections in January after members of the lower house asked the president to disband the chamber. Without a hint of irony, officials explain the motive behind the request as being to enable the government to get the elections out of the way so it can focus on dealing with the next wave of the crisis.

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Thu, 10th Nov -- East Capital announced November 10 that the winners of its 2011 awards that recognise the most outstanding companies within Central and Eastern Europe are Turkish Airlines, DO & CO Restaurants & Catering, and Mostotrest.

Charles Robertson of Renaissance Capital
Wed, 9th Nov -- Securities issued by EM banks, corporates and sovereigns have been running at a total of around $80bn per quarter since the third quarter in 2009. We have never seen such huge ability to borrow by the EM world via Eurobonds. Our concern is that this borrowing may have replaced syndicated lending.

Clare Nuttall in Almaty
Tue, 8th Nov -- Kyrgyzstan is pushing ahead with the privatisation of assets nationalised after the April 2010 revolution. Revenues so far have been modest, but two large and highly controversial assets - a stake in mobile telecommunications company Megacom and Zalkar Bank, the successor to AsiaUniversalBank - are due to be auctioned off in November.

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Mon, 7th Nov -- The sovereign debt crisis is polarising Europe's property markets, with the most attractive cities for future real estate investment being the competitive economies of the Nordics, Germany and Emerging European markets like Russia, according to Jones LaSalle's annual index.

Molly Corso in Tbilisi
Fri, 4th Nov -- The long-awaited agreement with Russia over its entry to the World Trade Organization is a "victory" for Georgia, according to Gerogian President Mikheil Saakashvili. But analysts caution it is still unclear what - if anything - the deal will give Tbilisi.

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Mon, 7th Nov -- Russia has opened up a new trade route that cuts the distance between Europe and Asia in half. The Northern Sea Route goes round the top of the Eurasian continent, rather than the traditional route via the Suez Canal, passing India and China.

Molly Corso in Tbilisi
Wed, 2nd Nov -- A deal to bring two Bollywood film shoots to Georgia is raising expectations that the country's struggling cinema industry could get a second chance.

Clare Nuttall in Bishkek
Mon, 31st Oct -- Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister Almazbek Atambaev looks set to win outright in the first round of the country's October 30 presidential elections. But even before polls closed, rival candidates said they may challenge the result as allegations of vote buying and misuse of state resources surfaced.

Charles Robertson of Renaissance Capital
Wed, 26th Oct -- A German victory at the October 26 summit on the euro is most likely, meaning a Japanese-style deleveraging combined with German-style structural reforms. But this effort to make peripheral Europe more German-like will prove very problematic.