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WrestleMania Central Asian-style: great powers battle for region’s critical minerals

Mar 21, 2025

Getting down and dirty to obtain rare earths.

Rights watchdog documents forced mobilization of Central Asian labor migrants in Russian military

Mar 19, 2025

Citizenship wielded as instrument of coercion.

A peace treaty is finalized, but Azerbaijan is accusing Armenia of preparing for war

Mar 18, 2025

Yerevan says Baku is spreading disinformation.

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Kyrgyzstan: Seeking Elon Musk-like figures to lead the government

Mar 20, 2025

Parliament ready to lower qualifications for top government posts.

Kazakhstan makes Top 40 list of arms importers – survey

Mar 18, 2025

Share of Russian arms exports plummets.

Air quality in Tajikistan ranked among world’s worst – survey

Mar 17, 2025

Central Asia one of globe’s most air-polluted regions.

Environmental groups caution against overdevelopment of river resources in Central Asia

Mar 14, 2025

Calling on international financial institutions to reevaluate projects.

Azerbaijan’s first utility-scale solar facility, the 230 MW Garadagh plant, launched in late 2023. Baku has announced several renewable energy projects, but progress has been mixed. (Photo: president.az)

Azerbaijan’s renewables potential: progress or empty promises?

Mar 21, 2025

Political will lacking to fulfill renewables’ potential.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs conducts 24-hour continuous video surveillance across Georgia. (Photo: gov.ge)

It may be 2025, but it is increasingly feeling like 1984 in Tbilisi

Mar 20, 2025

Georgian Dream relying on omnipresent surveillance cameras to corral critics.

Central Asia

US and EU drumbeat for Central Asia’s critical minerals grows louder

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev (left) meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at an SCO event in Kazakhstan on July 3, 2024. The Uzbek government wants to maintain a sense of strong domestic support for its “all-weather strategic partnership“ with China, but the initial effort to reassure Uzbeks did not appear to stem the social media-driven discontent. (Photo: president.uz)

Social networks in Uzbekistan buzzing with criticism of Chinese economic practices

A woman from Afghanistan at a passport control checkpoint in Kazakhstan. (Photo: gov.kz)

Tajikistan gets high marks for accommodating refugees, IDPs – UNHCR

Pashinyan’s goal of convincing Armenians to embrace an overhaul of the county’s political, economic and social culture will test the limits of his political and diplomatic skills. (Photo: primeminister.am)

Commentary: Armenia at constitutional crossroads

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (left) and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev speak at the BRICS summit in Russia in October 2024. The two sides announced on March 13, 2025, that the text of the peace agreement between them has been finalized, but it is unclear when, or even if, it will be signed. (Photo: Ramil Sitdikov/brics-russia2024.ru)

Armenia and Azerbaijan declare peace is at hand

A medical professional in Kazakhstan educates a family about disease prevention, including immunization. (Photo: gov.kz)

Vaccine hesitancy fuels resurgence of childhood diseases in Central Asia, Caucasus

The Khorgos Gateway dry port on the Chinese-Kazakh border. Trade with Kazakhstan accounted for nearly half of China’s turnover with Central Asian states in 2024. (Photo: gov.kz)

China enhances position as Central Asia’s economic overlord

Jackson-Vanik repeal expectations are based on comments made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his confirmation hearings earlier in January at which he described the amendment as “an absurd relic of the past” and expressed a commitment to improving trade relations with Central Asian states. (Screenshot)

Trump administration likely to pursue steady US trade course in Central Asia

The official launch of the project on December 27 was purely ceremonial, and construction is not expected to start till July 2025 at the earliest. (Photo: president.kg)

China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway officially launched, but sidetracked at least until summer

The site of the passenger jet’s crash. (Photo: gov.kz)

Azerbaijan creates pathway to reconciliation with Russia

The Bundestag. (Photo: Ekaterina Venkina)

What does German election mean for Ukraine?

A lab professional is examining equipment donated by the United States in 2021 to help Kazakhstan combat COVID-19. (Photo: U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Kazakhstan)

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