Eurasianet

Rodney Dixon, lawyer for victims of Chinese repression in Xinjiang, speaks with Eurasianet about seeking justice at the International Criminal Court and how Central Asian countries are vulnerable.

The shortages have been fueled by a Russian export ban.

The 20-year-old informant for Russia’s security services was sent to Tbilisi to report on the many exiles here. Now, he says, he’s come clean.

The announcement seems to be tied to a deranged post on the former Russian president’s social media.

The country’s pro-Europe elite sees a millennia-old history of belonging to Europe. Will it matter for Georgia’s EU aspirations?

Statistics on drug use in Kazakhstan are hard to come by, and the government is more comfortable prosecuting addicts than overseeing their rehabilitation.

Is graft becoming more common, or is the uptick in arrests due to greater political will to clean up?

The Chinese leader downplayed repression in the region, while hyping economic possibilities.

Climate change and human activity threaten to drive the apple from its native soil by the end of the century, new research warns.

July has seen 100 convictions so far, but there is little faith in investigators’ impartiality.

The culture minister says he is responding to calls from the public.

Locals say authorities are arbitrarily seizing their homes to make way for a road from China.

Government explanations are hard to believe, and do not hide the poverty and abuse fueling unrest.

In multicultural Kazakhstan, unions between members of different ethnic groups are not uncommon, but they can meet resistance.

The plan is to shoot 80,000 of the antelope in the west of the country.