From Kazakhstan to Tajikistan, procedures have been adopted throughout the region to change the spelling of surnames by ...

Six police officers were sentenced to three years in prison in relation to the torture of 44 foreign nationals in the dark ...

Satire has long been a form of political expression around the world. In some countries, including the United States and many ...

We consider it discrimination by Human Rights Watch against the Azerbaijani people on ethnic and religious grounds. Racial discrimination is not acceptable in any case. When this discrimination is ...

Blogger Dana Ormanbayeva, who insulted Russian-speaking residents of the Central Asian republic, has been put on the ...

Police in Almaty arrested Temirlan Yensebek, the creator of QazNews24, a satirical news site, on the evening of January 17, ...

ASTANA — Almaty will host one of the most striking and unique events in the world of culture — the debut performance of the Birlik ensemble — only once on Jan. 30, the ensemble’s art director, Anel ...

Police in Almaty arrested Temirlan Yensebek, the creator of QazNews24, a satirical news site, on the evening of January 17, ...

Because of Central Asia’s isolation from the world during the Soviet era, these artists remain little studied outside the ...

Police forces and courts are collecting less data on the ethnicity of criminals than at any time in the past 15 years amid fears of being called racist, figures have shown. Senior Tory MPs ...

Ethnic Serbs living in Kosovo have denounced raids by authorities on municipal offices in 10 Serbia-backed areas. The January 15 raids are part of an effort by the government in Pristina to close ...

The Uyghurs are one of several predominantly Muslim ethnic minority groups in China’s Xinjiang region, which borders Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan. Formally called the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...