Turkmenistan: Digging your way out of trouble
There is a sequence in Barbet Schroeder’s 1974 documentary about the late Ugandan leader...
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Aug 21, 2018
There is a sequence in Barbet Schroeder’s 1974 documentary about the late Ugandan leader...
The Turkish Lira last week ended one of the most turbulent weeks...
The government of Iran has reprimanded Georgia for allegedly forcing Iranian women...
August 17 marks 100 days since Nikol Pashinyan became prime minister of...
The woes of the Russian ruble have infected Kazakhstan, causing a tumble...
A day after being released on bail, Armenia's former president Robert Kocharyan...
A United States congressman is visiting the Caucasus in a show of...
Will a meeting between Armenia's newly elected prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, and...
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 rowdy rally was held in front of the former Russian embassy...
A convention on the Caspian Sea to be signed at an upcoming...
A government get-together in Turkmenistan this week was a predictable smorgasbord of...
Jafariddin Yusufov’s friends and neighbors say he vanished two months before the...
Finally some good news is on the horizon for Turkmenistan....
If your last name ends in “yan” and you are headed to...
A Russian friend once explained to me that the world’s first rapper...
Amid a period of heightened tensions between Yerevan and Moscow, Armenia has...
Russian telecommunications giant MTS has filed a case with a World Bank...
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Tajikistan has revealed in an interview that Riyadh...
The second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, has appeared in a Yerevan...
In the ruined resort town of Tskaltubo, the Soviet-era hotels were once...
Russia, the world’s biggest drinker of Georgian wine, has threatened to tighten...
Anybody trying to understand the apparent inconsistencies of Russia’s migration landscape needed...
State television in Uzbekistan marked the president’s birthday with a degree of...
In keeping with the summer holiday season, news out of Turkmenistan has...
Russia appears to have stepped up its information war against the new...
In late June, the Dostuk crossing on the border between Kyrgyzstan and...
A Russian military official has apologized after Russian soldiers carried out unannounced...
Russia has adopted new registration rules impacting millions of foreigners working in...
Tajikistan and Russia are holding military drills in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast,...
Outside Abkhazia’s derelict former parliament, burnt beyond repair during the territory’s secessionist...
One of the most popular means to get around Tajikistan’s capital is...
Armenia's newly elected prime minister Nikol Pashinyan visited Brussels and had a...
The government of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is undertaking a wide-ranging...
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 court in northern Tajikistan has sentenced a local journalist and comedian...
The black-box studio on 8th Avenue in Manhattan was small, but the...
At the official level at least, Kazakhstan and Russia have been exchanging...
Unlike regular people in Turkmenistan, the ruling family is getting to do...
On July 7, Russia faced Croatia in the soccer World Cup quarterfinals. ...
It’s time for a reality check on Uzbekistan’s reforms....
The capital of Kazakhstan has just enjoyed a 20th-birthday blowout costing more...
A man who once supplied intelligence to Russia also has been supplying...
Azerbaijan suffered a massive, country-wide blackout after an explosion at a power...
Georgia has arrested a Turkish man allegedly involved in the killing of...
Azerbaijan has sharpened its threats of war against Armenia in an apparent...
When the history books are written at the end of time, it...
Russia has extended an embargo on the transit of a range of Ukrainian...
Georgia and its breakaway territories have launched a tit-for-tat blacklist battle in...
Two Syrian airlines have been denied access to Georgian airspace in retaliation...
A detailed report by an international human rights organization has documented how...
A new draft convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea,...
A highly unusual document landed a prominent spot on the website of...
It’s hard to predict where Kathy Roma, or Katya Romanovskaya for those...
Russia has transferred at least five warships out of the Caspian Sea...
Over the six years in which he ran Kyrgyzstan, former President Almazbek...
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov took time out of his crammed schedule this...
“They say we are all terrorists,” says Fatima, a guesthouse owner near...
Tens of thousands of Muslims prayed in and around Moscow's main mosque...
Browsers at Crossover, a comic-book store in Almaty, sometimes need some nudging....
Upwards of a thousand dignitaries – including the presidents of Turkey, Georgia,...
When Vladimir Putin was asked about air pollution during last week’s marathon...
Azerbaijan has displayed new missiles it has bought from Belarus and Israel,...
Russia’s top diplomat has reportedly chided Kazakhstan over Astana’s decision to provide...
On a hot, humid May afternoon in New York’s Russian-speaking neighborhood, some...
The concept of Russkii Mir (the Russian World) has been one of...
The Republican Party of Armenia lost its parliamentary majority when MP Samvel...
After forcing Armenia’s authoritarian ruler Serzh Sargsyan out of office in April,...
Russian soldiers hold a position just 250 meters from Georgia's main east-west...
A senior official in Kazakhstan has confirmed that the government is considering...
Remote western regions of the Uzbekistan have for several days been assailed...
It is not often that you hear about cotton from Turkmenistan, although...
The Syrian government recognized the independence of Georgia’s breakaway regions Abkhazia and...
Nuclear proliferation is again making headlines, given Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from...
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have agreed to grant a request from neighboring Kazakhstan...
A pair of tourists enjoy an al fresco meal at a café...
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...
Informal trade between Georgia and its breakaway territories, Abkhazia and South Ossetia,...
Armenia's new prime minister Nikol Pashinyan has formed his first post-uprising government,...
Advancing his apparent quest to be photographed at the helm of every...
Russian officials believe they have come up with an innovative way to...
Israeli politicians have called on the country to formally recognize the Armenian...
Armenia has welcomed a historic new free-trade agreement between the Russian-led Eurasian...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan this week called on Armenia to show...
Akhal-Teke is a weekly Eurasianet column compiling news and analysis from Turkmenistan....
Newly elected Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met with Russian President Vladimir...
Something caught the eye of Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili in the middle...
Two Russians are having a conversation following the peaceful revolution in Armenia, goes...
With each year that passes, the Immortal Regiment in the northern Kazakhstan...
It was like something out of a fairytale. Nazrulo Amirov turned pigs...
Armenia's parliament has elected backbencher and protest leader Nikol Pashinyan as the...
In Turkmenistan, statistics are not so much a science as an art....
The mayor’s office in the capital of Uzbekistan has risked drawing the...
Temir Bolotbek feels strongly about architecture. So much so, that a squabble...