On October 8, the presidents of five Central Asian states and Azerbaijan gathered in Avaza, on Turkmenistan's Caspian coast, ...

In Moscow, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Joe Luc Barnes met residents who distrusted their government but ...

Reports surrounding the death of an employee at an anti-plague research institute in Russia’s Irkutsk region have prompted health authorities across Central Asia to tighten sanitary controls and ...

The leaders of Central Asia and Azerbaijan met in Turkmenistan on October 8, with expanding trade between their countries ...

Archaeologists at Kazakhstan's Kalzhyr settlement have uncovered a fire-damaged fortress and rare ceramic bird figurine dating to the early Turkic period.

Twenty-year-old Ainabek Keldibek went to Russia expecting to work as a security guard. Relatives of other young Kazakh men ...

Uzbekistan has approved a plan to develop nine caves and a salt mine for tourism. The program announced by the Tourism Committee on October 5 covers development work through 2028 at sites in Jizzakh, ...

Tajikistan says a visa-free regime with Iran has been fully implemented, allowing citizens of each country to travel more ...

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev appointed Tatyana Savelyeva deputy defense minister on October 7. The former vice minister of finance and member of parliament joins a ministry undergoing a major ...

A German spy scandal involving alleged Azerbaijani links draws attention to espionage cases, secret trials, and diplomatic ...

Kazakhstan has opened a center to monitor radiation and coordinate responses to nuclear and radiological emergencies, with support from the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear ...

Kazakhstan and Oman are considering a new trade corridor through Omani ports to the Indian Ocean as investment ties between ...