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The government is trying to lure investors as it moves to revitalize a sluggish privatization drive.

Kazakh traders have been helping fill Russian demand for high-tech consumer goods and other items hard to obtain under Western sanctions.

Pipelines to Russia carried 94 percent of Kazakh oil exports last year.

Though years behind schedule and stinking of corruption, the government wants to proceed with the Chinese-linked project.

Production is falling as demand increases, forcing Uzbekistan to look to Russia for energy supplies.

It appears to be yet another salvo against the disgraced former president.

Afghanistan receives about half its imports on a single track from Uzbekistan.

The firm hopes to create a regional aviation hub just over the Kazakh border.

Customs officials are part of the problem.

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.