Uzbekistan’s first gas-to-liquids project, worth $3.6 billion, has entered its final stage after delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Georgia's opposition leader Nika Melia, whose arrest earlier this year plunged a country already crippled by the economic consequences of COVID-19 into a political crisis, will continue to await a final verdict in custody.

Uzbekistan’s state company Toshkent Metropoliteni and Russia's Metrovagonmash signed a 52.85 million euros ($63 million) contract for the purchase of ten trains for the Tashkent metro.

Ukraine said on Monday that the Kremlin was not responding to its request from President Volodymyr Zelensky for talks on heightened tension along the neighbours’ border and suggested that Russia might be funnelling even more troops next to areas of the country held for seven years by separatists aligned with Moscow.