Game of the name.

This article reports that the periodical "The Economist" is baffled by all those countries that have sprung up in the place that used to go by the name of the Soviet Union in the periodical. It states that had the Commonwealth of Independent States looked like a fixture, one might have continued to treat all its members as honorary Europeans; but increasingly their differences look larger than what they have in common. Accordingly, papers about the countries of ex-Soviet Central Asia will now usually be found in the Asia section. The other ex-Soviet Asian republics are more awkward. Georgia and Armenia are more European in outlook and proximity than the Central Asian states, and it would be odd to detach their neighbor Azerbaijan from them. So all three stay in Europe, which is, after all, where the periodical puts Turkey, even though most of it is geographically in Asia.