Eurasianet

While any sale may have been long planned, the family may be under pressure to reduce its presence in Kazakhstan’s financial sector.

The embassy's chief of security was shot dead, and two other staff were wounded. The attack comes amid Azerbaijan's increasingly strained relations with Iran and blossoming friendship with Iran's archrival Israel.

The airline cancelled flights to the country last year, fearing its leased aircraft could be seized.

This time, the two countries are rowing over the provision of arms and the possible resumption of air travel between Russia and Georgia.

A statement by the Foreign Ministry alluded to a potential confrontation with Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh and Russian border guards in Armenia.

It’s not always for fear of reprisals. And it can undermine trust in journalism.

Already battling double-digit food inflation, a deep freeze threatens to destroy winter crops across Central Asia.

Kyiv has long taken a pro-Azerbaijan position vis-a-vis the conflict with Armenia. Now officials say that Armenia and Russia are using the blockade to try to steal attention from Ukraine.

Moscow is driving forward its energy ambitions in Central Asia as it seeks new markets for gas that Europe now shuns.

Armenia sees the new EU mission as a force for peace and security, but there is no buy-in from Azerbaijan or Russia.

Three years ago, Moscow's unilateral flight ban was intended to shock Georgia. Now many Georgians dread the resumption of air connections.

Brussels notes some "progress" toward addressing its conditions for membership candidate status. But no one knows how much will be enough.

The hardest thing to change may be patriarchal stereotypes.

Multiple journalists have been on the receiving end of alleged vandalistic assaults and threats.

Polygamous marriages can grant women some financial stability, but no legal protection if they are abandoned.