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Central Asia and Russia’s crisis 18.01.2015

January 18, 2015

EVEN in the fat years, when Russia’s oil-fuelled economy guaranteed her son a job, Enjegul Kadyraliyeva struggled to survive on the dollars he sent home to her in Kyrgyzstan. Now she fears she will have to feed her grandson on the loose change she earns selling dried yogurt balls and lollipops on the pitted streets of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s capital.

URL: http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21639564-rouble-plunges-central-asia-feels-pain-contagion

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