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Astana rejects Belarussian leader’s criticism over Russia-Ukraine war stance.

Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan account for 92 percent of newly registered HIV cases in the region.

Two Kazakh nationals wanted on suspicion of carrying out hit on émigré dissident in Kyiv.

Social media influencer shot in head in Kyiv.

Summit communique urges dialogue to end warfare without providing roadmap for talks.

A Homerian epic flavored with a dash of Ivan Denisovich and Dante.

A two-time exile’s spirit is undiminished.

The Bucharest Nine group of states should be empowered to lead.

Captive journalists treated as dangerous political dissidents in violation of Geneva Convention.

They issue a declaration calling for regime change, but thin on details.

In addition to the risk of the Ukraine War spreading to Georgian territory, the planned Russian naval base in Abkhazia could threaten Georgia's status as a global east-west connectivity hub.

A Q&A with Georgian author Tinatin Japaridze on history, trauma and collective guilt.

AI can facilitate an expansion of the surveillance state.

National security services claim a coup is being plotted against the Georgian government from Ukraine.

Amid denials there is a hint of Kyrgyz willingness to step up export controls.

Decolonization activism is on the rise in what Russia considers its traditional backyard

Environmental authorities have intensified water monitoring amid concerns about the wider effects of the Kakhovka dam collapse.

Nationalist calls for migrants in Russia to "pay their dues" are starting to be heard against a mounting backdrop of xenophobic sentiment.

The signs of solidarity and resilience shown by Ukrainians were evident in the decade leading up to the war, but the Kremlin ignored the evidence.

Ever since the start to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, anything with the slightest whiff of separatism in Kazakhstan has elicited a harsh crackdown. Except this time.

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

Kyrgyz authorities do not want pollsters or journalists to probe public opinion about the war.

The Soviet-era constraint of collective decision-making seems to have eroded in Putin’s Russia.

Priced out of Georgian cities by Russians fleeing conscription, many Ukrainian refugees have ended up in small, remote towns, where resources are few.