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Organizers say the move to Bukhara is not political, but Tashkent is keeping a close eye on Karakalpakstan after unrest last summer.

Farmers complain that rebounding populations are encroaching on their pastures.

While any sale may have been long planned, the family may be under pressure to reduce its presence in Kazakhstan’s financial sector.

Moscow is driving forward its energy ambitions in Central Asia as it seeks new markets for gas that Europe now shuns.

This latest winter energy crisis is undermining public confidence in the administration of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

The changes make living long-term in Kazakhstan unviable for tens of thousands of Russian citizens who have fled the war.

For all the government's boasts of transparency, critics of the trial say rigorous scrutiny has been sorely lacking.

Miners flocked to Kazakhstan from China in 2021 after Beijing banned operations there.

The bank is a minnow, but its sale allows Tashkent finally to start slashing state ownership of banking sector assets.

McDonald’s exit offers the Kazakh beef industry food for thought.

Inflation has continued to rise despite six interest rate hikes over the last year.

Kazakhstan saw some of the priciest damage in the world.

Sanctions are propelling a shift away from transit across Russia.

Uzbekistan is the second-largest market for Indian pharmaceuticals in the former Soviet Union.

The “People’s IPO” program was conceived over a decade ago to create a class of retail investors in Kazakhstan.

The state is ending its monopoly on the aviation sector by certifying a press-shy private carrier.

It is not the energy sector that employs most foreign specialists but construction.

Plans to increase trade depend on new transport routes skirting Russia.

The EU’s foreign policy chief is the latest high-level Western official to visit Central Asia.

Russia’s labor market is experiencing its worst shortages since 1993.

Reforms have helped the Uzbek economy weather the regional economic fallout from Russia’s war.

Kazakhstan is itching to get its lithium out of the ground.

Brussels says the Russian billionaire has supported people behind Putin’s war in Ukraine.

The president is trying to move Kazakhstan on from the trauma 10 months ago, but the terms of the amnesty have not pleased everyone.

Sanctions on Russia are helping China expand its market share in Central Asia.