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...
For the first time since coming to power in the early 1990s,...
Police in Kyrgyzstan say they are powerless to stop the growth of...
When a friend asked Kato Abramishvili, a 40-year-old single mother in Tbilisi,...
A news website in Tajikistan has reported that three mountaineers and two...
Authorities in Tajikistan said an Mi-8 helicopter carrying at least 16 people was...
Kyrgyzstan’s capital was the scene of a dramatic episode of gangland violence...
To maintain their current growth momentum, the five post-Soviet Central Asian republics...
The alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl, followed by her family arranging...
A dogged opponent of Kyrgyzstan’s former president has been moved from prison...
For the past few years, an annual horse and yak games contest...
A decision taken this week by a court in Kyrgyzstan to reinstate a disgraced...
Kyrgyzstan is fretting amid claims of a series of terrorist plots and...
In the escalating trade dispute between Washington and Beijing, Central Asia stands...
Kyrgyzstan’s President Sooronbai Jeenbekov has surprised many in the country by hosting...
Security services in Kyrgyzstan have detained the former mayor of the capital...
In late June, the Dostuk crossing on the border between Kyrgyzstan and...
Russia has adopted new registration rules impacting millions of foreigners working in...
City councilors in Kyrgyzstan’s capital voted in an impromptu session on July...
The central banks of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have come together to agree...
On July 7, Russia faced Croatia in the soccer World Cup quarterfinals. ...
A military helicopter in Kyrgyzstan has crashed during a rescue of tourists trapped...
New rules have reportedly been put in place limiting the amount of...
Donkey meat is back on the menu in Kyrgyzstan’s parliament – or...
A detailed report by an international human rights organization has documented how...
Over the six years in which he ran Kyrgyzstan, former President Almazbek...
Security services in Kyrgyzstan say they have arrested another former prime minister...
Tens of thousands of Muslims prayed in and around Moscow's main mosque...
A mobile phone company in Tajikistan has appointed a disgraced former government...
Azerbaijan has displayed new missiles it has bought from Belarus and Israel,...
The criminal trial of well-known journalist and comedian in Tajikistan is set...
Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov’s state visit to China kicked off on June...
Former Kyrgyzstan prime minister Sapar Isakov has been been taken into custody...
The United Nations office in Kyrgyzstan has issued a rare criticism of...
It was just half a year ago that Kyrgyzstan made history with...
Security services in Kyrgyzstan said on May 29 that they are charging...
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have agreed to grant a request from neighboring Kazakhstan...
Security services in Kyrgyzstan on May 21 charged a recently fired head...
The embattled former president of Kyrgyzstan has announced he is dropping his...
What should a pair of pliers cost?...
Armenia has welcomed a historic new free-trade agreement between the Russian-led Eurasian...
Members of parliament in Kyrgyzstan have embarked on an initiative to strip...
An investigation in Kyrgyzstan into the holdings of a former deputy prime...
Temir Bolotbek feels strongly about architecture. So much so, that a squabble...
A government ombudsman in Kyrgyzstan has appealed to the president to consider...
Central Asian states are collectively known as a wellspring of migrants, most...
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The latest contribution to the field of research on violent religious radicalization...
Every shashlik cook worth his salt knows the secret is to give...
The former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan, who was ousted only days ago...
There is at least one new thing about Kyrgyzstan’s latest prime minister....
Dozens of people traveled to Kyrgyzstan’s capital this week to rally for...
Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan have turned in dramatic fashion on the government and...
The president of Kyrgyzstan has earned some brownie points with the activist...
For a few months now, I have been hearing stories of Kyrgyzstan...
Kyrgyzstan’s not so behind-the-scenes power struggle is fast descending into farce. Six...
In a widely anticipated move, the president of Kyrgyzstan has signed off...
Border officials in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have agreed to intensify coordination following...
Residents of a town in southern Kyrgyzstan opposed to the construction of...
The high-ranking holdover allies of Kyrgyzstan’s former president are tumbling like bowling...
If the former president of Kyrgyzstan was not worrying already, he should...
In episode 25, Nate Schenkkan talks with Aksana Ismailbekova about her book...
The language of gold-making spills easily from people’s mouths in Kazarman. Every...
The president of Kyrgyzstan, who has been in office since November, appears...
It was like he had never left. Kyrgyzstan’s former president, Almazbek Atambayev,...
Security services in Kyrgyzstan have opened a second criminal investigation against former...
The set for Berkutchi, a movie production about the manmade famine that...
Sumalak, the gooey germinated wheat-based treat made to mark the spring equinox...
A weekly train running the route from the capital of Uzbekistan to...
Fresh data from Russia’s Central Bank have shown a strong resurgence in...
A gathering of Central Asia presidents held in Kazakhstan’s capital this week...
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...
The president of Uzbekistan was due to fly out of Tajikistan around...
The defection of a high-ranking figure from within Kyrgyzstan’s presidential administration has...
When Sattylyk first arrived in Boz Beshik, a little village poised scenically...
The capital of Kyrgyzstan is a little late to the party on...
A curious little drama has played out in Tajikistan that neatly encapsulates...
In the middle of January, Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, was gripped by a...
Sometimes a corruption case is about more than just the corruption....
This February marks the 30th anniversary of the events that launched the...
The scandal involving a Kyrgyz lawmaker arrested in Kazakhstan last week on...
A member of parliament from Kyrgyzstan has been detained by law enforcement...
For centuries, mountainous southwestern Georgia lay at the crossroad of the Ottoman,...
A pair of lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan have drafted a legislative bill that...
The districts of Batken and Lelik are tucked away in a southwest...
Władysław Bukowiński, a Polish priest born in what is now Ukraine, was...
Starting in April through to September, Tajikistan will export 1.5 billion kilowatt...
An environmental group in Kyrgyzstan’s capital is running an unusual experiment to...
Opposition politicians in Kyrgyzstan serving prison sentences on charges of coup-plotting have...
A sign above the entrance to the local highways department office in...
“To be a Eurasianist should be cool, it should be stylish.”...
The Kyrgyz are among the smallest and newest Central Asian diasporas to...
Kyrgyzstan’s president has agreed to drop his claim to libel damages from...
The first turbines at Tajikistan’s Roghun hydropower plant are set to go...
A blaze broke out on January 30 at a popular bazaar in...
Aigul Dogdurova, a 43-year old native of Bishkek, cannot remember anything like...
Residents of Kyrgyzstan’s capital endured a teeth-shatteringly cold weekend following a malfunction...
Many of Tajikistan’s traditional banks are wobbling due to years of chronic...