Turkish lira casts pall over Caucasus and Central Asia
The Turkish Lira last week ended one of the most turbulent weeks...
Maximilian Hess Aug 21, 2018
The Turkish Lira last week ended one of the most turbulent weeks...
A court in Kazakhstan’s business capital has fined an activist after she...
Ham-fisted attempts by officials in Kazakhstan to stymie online shoppers’ ability to...
The woes of the Russian ruble have infected Kazakhstan, causing a tumble...
On August 12, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov was in Aktau, Kazakhstan, to take...
A few years ago, Sergei Lysenko, a 40-year-old entrepreneur in Kazakhstan’s business...
Travelling one evening on the train from Astana to Almaty in Kazakhstan,...
It's rush hour in Istanbul's Laleli district, and young porters are hauling...
The government in Uzbekistan has published draft rules online that will lead...
A convention on the Caspian Sea to be signed at an upcoming...
If the gamble behind the Astana International Financial Center pays off, Kazakhstan...
To maintain their current growth momentum, the five post-Soviet Central Asian republics...
An ethnic Kazakh woman who faced deportation to China after crossing into...
Finally some good news is on the horizon for Turkmenistan....
A Russian friend once explained to me that the world’s first rapper...
The cryptocurrency business can be a flash in the pan....
State television in Uzbekistan marked the president’s birthday with a degree of...
In the escalating trade dispute between Washington and Beijing, Central Asia stands...
In May, China televised a live concert to celebrate its grand infrastructure...
More than half a year after news emerged that an alleged mysterious...
A trial taking place in a small quiet town in eastern Kazakhstan,...
One of the most popular means to get around Tajikistan’s capital is...
Uzbekistan has said it has reached an agreement with Russia to jointly...
The central banks of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have come together to agree...
A giant squirrel astride a busy main road in Almaty, Kazakhstan, caused...
At the official level at least, Kazakhstan and Russia have been exchanging...
A military helicopter in Kyrgyzstan has crashed during a rescue of tourists trapped...
The capital of Kazakhstan has just enjoyed a 20th-birthday blowout costing more...
A law has come into effect in Kazakhstan stiffening control over the...
With a showman’s flourish, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev on July 5 opened...
Russia has extended an embargo on the transit of a range of Ukrainian...
Every evening for the past four months, social media websites have become...
Kars, in far eastern Turkey, has a long history as a frontier,...
Three years after recovering from an attempt on his life...
A detailed report by an international human rights organization has documented how...
Dynastic rule is coming back into fashion in Central Asia. And the...
A new draft convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea,...
A highly unusual document landed a prominent spot on the website of...
Russia has transferred at least five warships out of the Caspian Sea...
Not for the first time, Kazakhstan’s ruling family has cropped up in...
The speaker of Kazakhstan’s parliament has dropped a political bombshell by stating...
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov took time out of his crammed schedule this...
It is five in the morning. Khayotjon Mamadaliyev is doing the rounds...
A courthouse in Kazakhstan’s business capital, Almaty, was a picture of chaos...
Browsers at Crossover, a comic-book store in Almaty, sometimes need some nudging....
Azerbaijan has displayed new missiles it has bought from Belarus and Israel,...
As a female announcer on Soviet radio read out the day’s soccer...
Russia’s top diplomat has reportedly chided Kazakhstan over Astana’s decision to provide...
The concept of Russkii Mir (the Russian World) has been one of...
A friendly cartoon character appears onscreen and fantasizes about how “grand wizard...
Authorities in Kazakhstan are scrambling to reassure the public that they have...
The joy that Tursynzhan Yesenalyuly felt in moving to his ethnic homeland...
A senior official in Kazakhstan has confirmed that the government is considering...
Svetlana Tynybekova was born in 1939, on the tail-end of a tidal...
Remote western regions of the Uzbekistan have for several days been assailed...
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have agreed to grant a request from neighboring Kazakhstan...
Lawmakers in Kazakhstan’s upper house of parliament have...
With their country consistently ranked near the bottom of international press freedom...
After a long hibernation, organized political opposition is making a comeback in...
Security services in Kazakhstan said on May 23 that they have arrested...
Armenia's new prime minister Nikol Pashinyan has formed his first post-uprising government,...
Armenia has welcomed a historic new free-trade agreement between the Russian-led Eurasian...
Akhal-Teke is a weekly Eurasianet column compiling news and analysis from Turkmenistan....
A banker from Kazakhstan has been detained by police in Moscow at...
With each year that passes, the Immortal Regiment in the northern Kazakhstan...
A rights group in Kazakhstan has said numerous people were detained by...
In Turkmenistan, statistics are not so much a science as an art....
An investigation in Kyrgyzstan into the holdings of a former deputy prime...
The president of Kazakhstan has promised to put an end to state...
Fresh legislation on elections in Kazakhstan could consolidate the ruling party in...
Central Asian states are collectively known as a wellspring of migrants, most...
Accolades are rolling in for cash-strapped, cut-off Turkmenistan’s newly opened $1.5 billion...
Akhal-Teke is a Eurasianet column compiling news and analysis from Turkmenistan....
Four years on, the mystery over a village in Kazakhstan where dozens...
With words he hoped would serve as a sharp kick in the...
A court in northern Tajikistan has sentenced a 71-year old woman to...
For a few months now, I have been hearing stories of Kyrgyzstan...
Indignation is brewing in nationalist quarters in Russia over Kazakhstan’s recent decision...
Mondays are not normally a busy day for cinemas, but at least...
Kazakhstan’s security services are sounding the alarm about a possible increase in...
A senior Defense Ministry official in Kazakhstan has said that 120 troops...
Sometimes, Zeinulla Kakimzhanov enjoys appearing in Forbes magazine....
Kazakhstan has warned it will block the popular Telegram messaging app unless...
Armenia’s Justice Ministry suspended activities at a Turkey-linked company hired by the...
Police in Kazakhstan have raided the offices of the local online edition...
Security services in Kyrgyzstan have opened a second criminal investigation against former...
China has pledged to boost imports from Kazakhstan and guaranteed that US...
Since assuming power over 18 months ago, Uzbekistan’s president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has cultivated...
Kazakhstan has responded to a deadly blaze at a shopping mall in...
When Kazakhstan’s Public Enemy No. 1 ordered his supporters to brandish blue...
The set for Berkutchi, a movie production about the manmade famine that...
A weekly train running the route from the capital of Uzbekistan to...
Communications authorities in Kazakhstan have revealed that their efforts to delete online...
Before all the trouble began, Nursultan was a model pupil....
A gathering of Central Asia presidents held in Kazakhstan’s capital this week...
Two high-profile criminal trials in Kazakhstan — one for murder and the...
The United States appears to have given up on military cooperation with...
Put this in your mental blender: An ancient, good-versus-evil epic with a...
A court in Kazakhstan has ruled to designate an opposition political movement...
The president of Uzbekistan was due to fly out of Tajikistan around...