Nepal's Enduring Bonds With Russia

The USSR may be gone, but the bridges it constructed in Nepal continue to significantly ease the lives of millions of Nepalis. Built along the east-west highway in 1972, these Soviet-built bridges will remain in use in 2024, offering enduring benefits from infrastructure projects completed over 52 years ago. Reflecting on this, blogger Dinesh Wagle questions how different it might have been if the Russians had opted for “capacity building’, a more typical approach among other donor countries.