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Glaciers are disappearing around the world. Here’s how it happens in Central Asia.

For all the government's boasts of transparency, critics of the trial say rigorous scrutiny has been sorely lacking.

Temperatures in Kazakhstan are slipping to below -30 degrees Celsius.

The bank is a minnow, but its sale allows Tashkent finally to start slashing state ownership of banking sector assets.

Kazakhstan saw some of the priciest damage in the world.

Uzbekistan is the second-largest market for Indian pharmaceuticals in the former Soviet Union.

Making an example of this group looks like an attempt to put an indefinite end to Kyrgyzstan’s periodic cycle of extra-parliamentary regime changes.

The number of government employees will be cut by 30 percent.

An earlier mooted vote was derailed by political unrest.

The official investigation into bloody chaos this summer has yet to deliver. Even the names of the dead remain a secret.

Mirziyoyev's pledges come amid a torrid time of power shortages and a slowdown in economic growth.

Central Asia’s most populous country is suffering serious energy shortages. Chinese companies will be part of the solution.

A vaunted meeting to discuss shipping Turkmen gas to Turkey and Europe ended without a breakthrough. But Uzbekistan is buying. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

The most prominent defendant had previously accused the judge of embezzlement.

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Central Asia’s most populous country is keen on the Green Card lottery, but low returns stoke demand for alternatives.

While households are struggling to deal with a heating crisis, some private enterprises have been able to receive steady supplies of gas.

Anomalously cold temperatures that are exacerbating the shortages will continue into next week.

Putin's spokesman has denied the proposal is being used to advance political objectives.

The train arrived with 40 carriages loaded with household appliances.

The state is ending its monopoly on the aviation sector by certifying a press-shy private carrier.

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A peaceful protest degenerated into violence as a result of what the authorities claim was a plot directed from outside the country.

The Khovos plant has capacity to produce up to 1.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity per year.

Plans to increase trade depend on new transport routes skirting Russia.