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Financial Crisis Halts Central Asia’s Economic Boom

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Maksat Bolotbekov crouched down, rubbed his blackened hands and caught the last waves of warmth from the fire’s grey ashes. Across the street the darkened windows of a Soviet-era munitions factory stared out blankly, coldly.

Bolotbekov, 37, is a construction worker. He and 10 of his comrades gather daily on the side of [...]