Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a controversial set of amendments into law banning “LGBT propaganda.” ...

Central Asia. The Chinese yuan is making gains on the US dollar in Central Asia as a form of payment in commercial tra ...

The US government has agreed to help train Kazakh specialists in the operation of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), ...

In early March 2017, the Solomyansky district court in Kyiv was the scene of a compelling crime drama. Inside the courtroom, the nation’s top tax inspector, Roman Nasirov, appeared on a stretcher ...

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Following Azerbaijan’s victory over Armenia in the 2020 Second Karabakh War, the country has seen a large-scale revival of attention to an obscure, extinct group once prominent in the region: the ...

Kazakhstan’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, hosted routine talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Astana on November 9. At the customary, post-meeting press conference, Tokayev said little ...

After wrapping up the political section of his recent working trip to China, Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev took the long way home from Beijing by passing through the southern city of ...

In mid-December, a reporter for Sputnik Armenia came across a curious scene in the southern town of Kapan: an excavator digging a trench that, he said, was marking the border between Armenia and ...

Critics call it copycat of Russian legislation.