Armenia's leader resigns amid peaceful mass protests
Armenia's longtime leader stepped down April 23, toppled by an overwhelming wave...
Joshua Kucera Apr 23, 2018
Armenia's longtime leader stepped down April 23, toppled by an overwhelming wave...
The Azerbaijani government and media have come out in support of the...
The Agara Sugar Company, in the eponymous town about 90 kilometers from...
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...
Azerbaijan has reached a deal to buy missiles from Belarus, a Russian...
Uzbekistan and Russia have pledged to jointly create a television channel, potentially...
Indignation is brewing in nationalist quarters in Russia over Kazakhstan’s recent decision...
Leaders of Armenia's ruling party decamped to a ski resort as protesters...
Azerbaijan's presidential election was, as predicted, a non-event. Ever-incumbent leader Ilham Aliyev...
There was a time when Turkey felt like a safe haven for...
Uzbekistan has just adopted a new law regulating the functions of its...
Azerbaijani voters go to the polls on April 11 for a presidential...
The main alleged recruiter of Central Asian nationals into the ranks of...
On its heavily fortified border with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Armenia...
The Georgian government has unveiled an ambitious new project to reintegrate its...
The language of gold-making spills easily from people’s mouths in Kazarman. Every...
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...
American experts on the post-Soviet space discussed United States policy toward a...
The government of Chechnya has expressed its readiness to construct a road...
Aviation authorities in Russia and Tajikistan are intensifying their battle of wills...
Hunter has become hunted in Georgia’s separatist region of Abkhazia, as locals...
A group of laborers from Tajikistan who saved dozens of lives during...
It has been many a year since Uzbekistan’s capital has seen such...
China has pledged to boost imports from Kazakhstan and guaranteed that US...
Tajikistan has staunchly denied accusations leveled by a high-ranking US general that...
Turkmenistan is exploring options on natural gas swap deals with Iran to...
Kazakhstan has responded to a deadly blaze at a shopping mall in...
Aviation authorities in Tajikistan and Russia are once again engaging in a...
When Kazakhstan’s Public Enemy No. 1 ordered his supporters to brandish blue...
Nowruz, the Persian New Year, brings one certainty to Armenia, Azerbaijan and...
The set for Berkutchi, a movie production about the manmade famine that...
Masha Udensiva-Brenner tells the story of New Yorker staff writer Adam Davidson’s...
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...
Communications authorities in Kazakhstan have revealed that their efforts to delete online...
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan hinted that he aims to extend his decade-long...
There were two certainties during the buildup to Russia’s presidential vote on...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved 932 million Euros ($1.15 billion)...
A gathering of Central Asia presidents held in Kazakhstan’s capital this week...
A ski lift careened out of control, with people jumping or thrown...
Rocked by doping scandals, Armenian weightlifters have been banned from competing in...
The United States appears to have given up on military cooperation with...
In the two months between Vladimir Putin’s virtually assured victory on March...
As Russia prepares to hold a presidential election, polling data indicates that an...
A court in Kazakhstan has ruled to designate an opposition political movement...
Russians are growing frustrated with poor healthcare, underfunded schools, and increasing poverty,...
A protracted tug of war over the body of a Georgian man...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly promised to tackle corruption. But in...
Both Russian and American media have come under scrutiny in the United...
Rethinking Russia’s approach to the global order could spur Moscow and Washington...
The village of Karajala is fairly typical of the dozens of settlements...
Most Russians would be forgiven for skipping this month’s presidential election. With...
Lawmakers in Kazakhstan have approved an agreement allowing the United States to...
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...
Kalandar Sadurdinov, a 70-year-old from Tajikistan, is one of thousands wanted back...
On the eve of a trial in Uzbekistan against a prominent journalist...
Powerbrokers in Armenia are set to elect a new president, completing the...
In a sublime feat of Russia-trolling, a theater in Uzbekistan is marking...
With all the fanfare that accompanied the recent start to work on...
Last August, a new, Azeri-language media brand appeared on Facebook and immediately...
Family members of a Georgian man who died in custody in the...
A year ago, when the European Union declared that Georgian citizens could...
Statements by Azerbaijan’s president calling for a “return to historical lands” in...
Sometimes a corruption case is about more than just the corruption....
The scandal involving a Kyrgyz lawmaker arrested in Kazakhstan last week on...
The United States has reportedly notified Armenia and other countries that they...
For years, Beijing has cast a shadow on a patch of swamp...
Armenia’s only alpine skier at the Winter Olympic games in South Korea...
An opposition politician from Tajikistan has...
A member of parliament from Kyrgyzstan has been detained by law enforcement...
For centuries, mountainous southwestern Georgia lay at the crossroad of the Ottoman,...
More than 400 representatives of Uzbekistan’s self-described intelligentsia have signed an online...
A sign above the entrance to the local highways department office in...
The Armenian Ministry of Health has proposed significantly increasing fines for smoking...
“To be a Eurasianist should be cool, it should be stylish.”...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved 1.5 billion euros in financing...
A historical dispute between Armenia and Russia over Armenia's liberation-hero-turned-Nazi-collaborator has reignited,...
China has formally denied reports that it is building a military base...
China’s Belt and Road infrastructure development initiative may be in its infancy,...
Since the soil beneath Uzbekistan is brimming with oil and gas riches,...
Armenia has managed to block a significant arms sale from Belarus to...
Two kilometers from the border crossing into breakaway Abkhazia, the village of...
Azerbaijan has unexpectedly announced that it is moving up presidential elections, previously...
Three men in plain white face masks gaze into the camera as...
The Death of Stalin may not be on general release in Kazakhstan,...
A head severed almost 180 years ago is causing a stir in...
Gafur Rakhimov, a businessman from Uzbekistan who has been linked by US...
On January 25, the chairperson of the National Assembly of the Republic...
Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to increase the size of the international...
Without warning one evening in November, agents from Kazakhstan’s security services mobbed...
On January 19, Armenia’s outgoing president Serzh Sargsyan presented his ambassador to...
A tiring, uncomfortable bus trip to Russia ended in tragedy for 52...
The first specialized academy of higher learning in Uzbekistan devoted exclusively to...
Azerbaijan’s appetite for the grandiose shows no signs of satiation, as it...
Emergency officials in Kazakhstan have reported that at least 52 people were...
Turkmenistan has adopted broadcasting legislation that in effect bans the depiction on...
The visit of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev to Washington has generated a...