• China’s Digital Yuan: It’s Quietly Changing Real Lives

    Forget the headlines about currency wars or tech supremacy for a moment. China’s digital yuan—the e-CNY—is doing something much more grounded: making everyday money work better for actual people. By the end of 2025, it had already powered more than 3.4 billion transactions worth around $2.3 trillion. That’s not lab-test volume anymore. And starting this…


  • Trade Between Georgia and Russia: A Pragmatic Partnership

    In recent years, trade relations between Georgia and Russia have shown steady growth, seemingly overcoming previous political frictions that stemmed from the 2008 conflict and the ongoing territorial issues of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Despite these earlier challenges, it appears that economic pragmatism has helped drive increased bilateral trade, with Russia emerging as one of…