In the wake of recent efforts by Central Asian leaders to open new trade routes to Pakistan, India is stepping up its ...

The Georgian Orthodox Church is preparing to select a new patriarch following the death of Ilia II, the longest-serving ...

PSA, the Kazakh-government-authorized entity overseeing the project, canceled an agreement with Shell and Eni on March 21. It cited “significant [cost] overruns,” “low economic attractiveness” of the ...

The group’s recently published annual report on global governance trends, titled Freedom in the World 2026: The Growing ...

Tajikistan, Central Asia’s poorest state, appears to be the regional leader in providing humanitarian aid to Iran. Russia, ...

A little more than a month after Japarov unceremoniously fired Tashiev from his powerful post at the head of the State ...

Over the last 10 days or so, however, Baku’s tone has softened considerably, and officials have kept open diplomatic channels ...

Public calls and efforts to discourage the use of Russian “discredit the Basic Law of Kyrgyzstan, undermine the foundations of the state and contribute to the incitement of ethnic hatred," the ...

The Bloody January turmoil stemmed partly from public alienation from a political system monopolized by Nursultan Nazarbayev, ...

Opinion polling indicates that voters will approve a new constitution for Kazakhstan in a referendum on March 15. The draft that citizens will vote on represents a near total rewrite of the existing ...

According to preliminary figures from the Central Referendum Commission, 87 percent of votes cast supported the adoption of the new constitution, Kazakhstan’s third since the country gained ...