Kazakhstan: Major data hack bears Chinese fingerprints The targeted individuals apparently included employees of the National Security Committee and the Defense Ministry. Almaz Kumenov Feb 22, 2024
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan reach 90 percent agreement on border Topographers and legal experts from the two countries this week reached a resolution on another 3.71 kilometers of the border. Feb 6, 2024
Turkish envoy drops hint on imminent Kyrgyz-Tajik land deal Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in remarks broadcast on Tajik state television that a frontier demarcation agreement would be signed in March. Jan 11, 2024
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan drop fresh hints on border deal Conversations have focused on key roads and access to remote settlements. Dec 4, 2023
Cautious hopes mounting for Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan border deal At present, around one-third of the border remains undefined. Oct 13, 2023
Azerbaijan-Iran normalization on the horizon The two countries, whose relations have long been strained, are now working together on a transit corridor and discussing normalizing their relations. Heydar Isayev Oct 10, 2023
Tajikistan hands control over border airports to armed forces The airports have lain largely idle since the fall of the Soviet Union. Sep 27, 2023
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan presidents meet to tamp down border tensions The head of the Kyrgyz security services sparked alarm by asserting that Bishkek was willing to uphold its territorial claims through force. Sep 20, 2023
Putin seeks to project sense of normality with calls to Central Asian peers Officials in the region have refrained from commenting publicly on the unfolding instability in Russia. Jun 24, 2023
Tajikistan opens military vehicle assembly plant Rahmon is selling this as a triumph for his industrialization agenda, but there are concerns of mounting militarization. May 24, 2023
HRW accuses Kyrgyz, Tajik forces of committing war crimes in border conflict The rights group's report suggests that troops on both sides knowingly targeted civilians with deadly force. May 2, 2023
Kyrgyzstan allowing indigenous horses to die out, breeders complain Kyrgyzstan’s indigenous horses, adapted to the country’s high-mountain terrain, are at risk of extinction. Aigerim Turgunbaeva Apr 20, 2023
Azerbaijan suggests Iran behind MP's shooting, warns of looming "crisis" Six people, allegedly with ties to Iran, were detained as suspects in the shooting of MP Fazil Mustafa. Heydar Isayev Apr 3, 2023
Azerbaijani MP survives shooting His outspoken criticism of Iran, and the timing coinciding with the opening of Azerbaijan's embassy in Israel led some fellow MPs to point the finger at Tehran. Heydar Isayev Mar 30, 2023
EurasiaChat: Lingering tensions with the Taliban Spring is when unmarked uranium tailings are most vulnerable. Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov Mar 27, 2023