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A former top U.S. diplomat reflects on Central Asia’s identity crisis.

A charismatic, handicapped singer has gone viral, triggering appearances with Russian superstars and a member of the ruling family.

The country no longer has a choice, the president says.

Officials blame an 8 percent spike in consumption on crypto miners from China.

Relations between upstream and downstream Central Asian countries can be tense. This won’t help.

Even in the late 1990s, there were already signs that President Rahmon would ignore the peace accords, writes the former U.S. ambassador.

The project is intended to partially bridge the language knowledge gap with Russian.

Kazakhstan’s energy needs are overwhelmingly served by burning dirty coal.

Behind the scenes with an American negotiator who helped forge a radical new level of U.S. engagement in Central Asia after 9/11.

While clumsy on COVID-19, Turkmenistan is being more sure-footed, or consistent at least, on the Afghanistan front. Plus, unsustainable agriculture. Our weekly briefing.

The U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe became a frenetic staging post for the Afghan war in late 2001.

The small community has been thrust back into the news by the Taliban advance. But there are no easy answers to questions about their future.

Can the former president, in exile for 16 years, help the government's case that a major foreign investor has played dirty from the start?

Water is scarce and food prices already rising.

Diverting 315 million cubic meters could help Kazakhstan avoid a summer of drought.