The shrill nature of Georgian Dream’s response suggests that the EU has struck a sensitive spot with its ultimatum. The loss ...

A series of laws adopted by Azerbaijan’s rubber-stamp parliament in the spring is paving the way for tariff reform in the ...

A district court in Samsun, on Turkey’s north coast, cleared activists Alisher Sakhatov and Abdulla Orusov for deportation ...

Alexander Kurenkov, Russia’s minister for emergency situations and a trusted lieutenant of Kremlin kingpin Vladimir Putin, ...

A district court in Bishkek ordered the closure July 9 of April TV – a Russian-language outlet that broadcast on YouTube and ...

Since Shavkat Mirziyoyev assumed the presidency in 2016, Uzbekistan has averaged 5.7 percent GDP growth annually, while achieving year-on-year employment growth of about 3.6 percent, the IMF states in ...

The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s international assistance agency, has an ambitious plan for the Kremlin soft-power entity to fill development gaps created by the dismantling of the US Agency ...

Efforts by Central Asian states to engage with Afghanistan are getting a boost from the United Nations. A recently adopted UN ...

Citizens of the Central Asian state seeking to visit the United States will no longer be able to obtain multi-entry visas, only single-entry. In addition, non-immigrant visas issued to Kyrgyz citizens ...

Amid escalating tension with Armenia stemming from Yerevan’s desire to pivot westward, and lacking the ability to offer economic incentives, Russia is resorting to a traditional tactic to get its way: ...

News and analysis from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan ...

Bags full of cash, armored cars, and an overbearing defense secretary: The former U.S. ambassador to Tajikistan recalls the frenetic days after 9/11, when Washington suddenly discovered the country.