Bruce Pannier: In Central Asia, the bad times have arrived
In this photograph taken on November 30, 2015, Afghan children play alongside the Amu River on the border of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, about 75 kms north of Mazar-i-Sharif. (AFP PHOTO/ Farshad Usyan)
The writing has been on the wall for Central Asia for months now - an economic crisis was coming to Central Asia and there was no way of avoiding it.