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,...
A group of representatives for Afghanistan’s Taliban militant organization last week wrapped...
Contrary to what some may believe, Uzbekistan does have a political opposition. ...
Art experts have begun assembling an online catalog of the collection at...
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...
If the gamble behind the Astana International Financial Center pays off, Kazakhstan...
Jafariddin Yusufov’s friends and neighbors say he vanished two months before the...
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...
In the escalating trade dispute between Washington and Beijing, Central Asia stands...
In late June, the Dostuk crossing on the border between Kyrgyzstan and...
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 Uzbekistan’s capital has convicted five people for membership in...
It’s time for a reality check on Uzbekistan’s reforms....
A military helicopter in Kyrgyzstan has crashed during a rescue of tourists trapped...
A whimsical plaque at the entrance to an exhibition hall in Uzbekistan’s...
New rules have reportedly been put in place limiting the amount of...
Prosecutors in Uzbekistan have said that they are in talks with their...
A detailed report by an international human rights organization has documented how...
Dynastic rule is coming back into fashion in Central Asia. And the...
It is five in the morning. Khayotjon Mamadaliyev is doing the rounds...
Gold: Uzbekistan’s latest wheeze for drawing foreign visitors....
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 president of Turkmenistan’s love affair...
The joy that Tursynzhan Yesenalyuly felt in moving to his ethnic homeland...
Remote western regions of the Uzbekistan have for several days been assailed...
Fans of low-cost communication in Uzbekistan celebrated on May 23 as Skype...
The opening hearing of Guzal Tokhtakhadjayeva’s criminal trial last month began late...
As the Washington rain beat down during the conclusion of Uzbek President...
Thoughts in Uzbekistan have turned to introducing Islamic banking services — a...
What is the right bar against which to measure the seriousness of...
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With each year that passes, the Immortal Regiment in the northern Kazakhstan...
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...
A prominent journalist in Uzbekistan has been found guilty of public calls...
One recent evening, visitors to Tashkent’s Ikhom Theater were met at the...
Central Asian states are collectively known as a wellspring of migrants, most...
Akhal-Teke is a Eurasianet column compiling news and analysis from Turkmenistan....
The renewed friendship between Turkey and Uzbekistan has generated a few more...
The latest contribution to the field of research on violent religious radicalization...
Uzbekistan has committed to take part in constructing the natural gas pipeline...
Uzbekistan and Russia have pledged to jointly create a television channel, potentially...
Border officials in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have agreed to intensify coordination following...
Uzbekistan has just adopted a new law regulating the functions of its...
The main alleged recruiter of Central Asian nationals into the ranks of...
Uzbekistan has resumed delivering natural gas to neighboring Tajikistan, ending a six-year...
The security services in Uzbekistan have laid down a bold red line...
It has been many a year since Uzbekistan’s capital has seen such...
Since assuming power over 18 months ago, Uzbekistan’s president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has cultivated...
“And who are you?” Robiya Rahmonova asked expectantly one March morning when...
Senior officials with Uzbekistan’s state-run power company have said work has begun...
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...
Before all the trouble began, Nursultan was a model pupil....
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...
In the boldest signal of bilateral amity to date, Uzbekistan’s president announced...
“Today is the last day you will be watching your heroes. […]...
On the first day of hearings in the sedition trial of journalist...
Lawmakers in Kazakhstan have approved an agreement allowing the United States to...
Authorities in Uzbekistan last month arrested long-serving former General Prosecutor Rashid Kadyrov...
On the eve of a trial in Uzbekistan against a prominent journalist...
In a sublime feat of Russia-trolling, a theater in Uzbekistan is marking...
Uzbekistan and Tajikistan opened 10 new bordering crossings on March 1, adding...
A curious little drama has played out in Tajikistan that neatly encapsulates...
With all the fanfare that accompanied the recent start to work on...
Uzbekistan has reportedly completed repair works on a long-idle railroad linking it...
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 prominent rights activist in Uzbekistan has said that the criminal case...
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...
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...
From around lunchtime on February 12, internet users in Uzbekistan have been...
A rights activist in Uzbekistan has claimed that sedition charges against reporter...
Weeks before Uzbekistan’s president shoved the head of the security services out...
Since the soil beneath Uzbekistan is brimming with oil and gas riches,...
Just in time for the tourist season, Uzbekistan is undertaking another attempt...
The morning in Uzbekistan began, fittingly enough, with an earthquake....
The first turbines at Tajikistan’s Roghun hydropower plant are set to go...
Work has resumed in Tajikistan on construction work on a natural gas...
The president of Uzbekistan has in his most dramatic personnel reshuffle since...
Gafur Rakhimov, a businessman from Uzbekistan who has been linked by US...
A state-owned newspaper in Uzbekistan for the ethnic Tajik community has published...
The continuing rapprochement between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan could provide a boost to...
On the first day alone of a public charity drive to assist...
Academic freedom is imperiled in Tajikistan, and determined action by the international...
A tiring, uncomfortable bus trip to Russia ended in tragedy for 52...
The first specialized academy of higher learning in Uzbekistan devoted exclusively to...