An acute water shortage in Uzbekistan seems to have a silver lining. The brewing crisis is forcing officials to speedily ...

The Russian accidental downing of an Azerbaijani civilian jetliner just over a year ago is an irritant in bilateral relations ...

An analysis published by Zakon.kz outlet portrayed the US power play in Venezuela as “the most significant geopolitical ...

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a controversial set of amendments into law banning “LGBT propaganda.” ...

Central Asia. The Chinese yuan is making gains on the US dollar in Central Asia as a form of payment in commercial tra ...

In early March 2017, the Solomyansky district court in Kyiv was the scene of a compelling crime drama. Inside the courtroom, the nation’s top tax inspector, Roman Nasirov, appeared on a stretcher ...

225 miles upstream from where the Aral Sea used to be: Water gurgles out of sprinklers, coaxing thick tufts of marigold and hibiscus from the loamy soil before pooling on the hot cement sidewalks.

The coastline vanished from his village long before Kenzhetay Akseitov was born. With it went the fishing that had once been the backbone of the local economy, leaving the nearby salt works as the ...

On January 1, 2024, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the entity at the heart of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, ceased - officially - to exist. The self-proclaimed republic's last leader, ...

The authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh have restored a 19th century mosque, the first Muslim monument to open as a tourist attraction in the entirely Christian-populated territory. But the mosque ...

Thirty days into the brutal war between Armenia and Azerbaijan last autumn, a small, London-listed company staked its claim to what lay beneath the killing fields. Anglo-Asian Mining had been waiting ...