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Closed borders: Which countries require visas from almost everyone?
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Closed borders: Which countries require visas from almost everyone?
March 12, 2026

While some nations open their doors wide, others remain firmly closed. This infographic identifies the world’s least accessible countries – destinations that grant visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to the fewest passports globally.

Ranked: Countries with the most and least carbon-intensive power grids
May 13, 2025

This infographic shows the countries which get their electricity in the most and least carbon-intensive ways.

Ranked: Countries with the most and least carbon-intensive power grids
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Main Trade Partners of Former Soviet Republics
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Main Trade Partners of Former Soviet Republics
March 21, 2024

The Soviet Union broke up in 1991 with fifteen independent states arising instead. Check out our infographic to learn what these states’ main trade partners are more than thirty years on.

Iraq Turns to Qatar, Turkmenistan to Reduce Reliance on Iranian Gas
July 12, 2023

Iraqis are suffering from soaring summer temperatures amid electricity shortages caused by reduced supplies of Iranian gas.

Iraq Turns to Qatar, Turkmenistan to Reduce Reliance on Iranian Gas
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Turkey Expanding Multinational Turkic Council to Counteract CSTO, SCO in ‘Eurasian Continent’
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Turkey Expanding Multinational Turkic Council to Counteract CSTO, SCO in ‘Eurasian Continent’
June 29, 2021

The Turkic Council was set up in 2009 with Turkey as its prime mover, five years after the nation hosted the NATO summit in Istanbul that recorded the largest-ever expansion of the military bloc.

Caspian Games: Central Asian ‘Stans’ Vie for Connectivity Market
April 21, 2018

Azerbaijan, as a Caspian nation, maintains deep ethnic and linguistic links with Turkey. Yet Baku prizes secularism in an Ataturk vein – which sets it at odds with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamic-tinged neo-Ottomanism.

Caspian Games: Central Asian ‘Stans’ Vie for Connectivity Market
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Central Asia: Diplomatic Activities Hit High Gear near Russia’s Soft Underbelly
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Central Asia: Diplomatic Activities Hit High Gear near Russia’s Soft Underbelly
January 28, 2016

Since mid-December till mid-January presidents, prime ministers and foreign chiefs of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Turkmenistan held a record number of meetings, mainly in Ashgabat, some in Tbilisi and Baku…

Afghanistan: Militants Posing Imminent Threat to Central Asia (II)
June 7, 2015

…The situation is an imminent threat to Russia with its many centuries-long history of living together with Central Asian nations. Unlike the US or the EU, Central Asia is close to Russian borders, and there is a plethora of common interests to unite Moscow with the states of the region. Unlike the West, Russia never imposed its vision of democracy and human rights protection. Common security concerns have produced the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), an organization with teeth serving as an instrument to safeguard peace and stability in Central Asia…

Afghanistan: Militants Posing Imminent Threat to Central Asia (II)
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