At the start of 2024, Central Asian states collectively owed Chinese state entities roughly $20 billion, with Kazakhstan’s ...

Afghanistan’s agricultural sector is likely to experience the most climate-related stress of any Central Asian state in the ...

The high-profile arrest phase got underway in late May, with the jailing of two prominent figures from the pro-Western Coalition for Change, Zurab Japaridze and Nika Melia. The group won more votes ...

“Many studies suggest that access to childcare enables women to enter the workforce simply by freeing up time. But Uzbekistan ...

Central Asian states are demonstrating an increasing willingness to cooperate in managing water resources.

Albania is emerging as a diplomatic hub in the Western Balkans region for efforts aimed at countering Russian influence, a ...

The prime minister evidently considers the Armenian Apostolic Church as a major impediment to his modernization plans, so on ...

The United States is making a diplomatic push in the Caucasus to promote peace and commerce. But the underlying aim of a bevy ...

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s administration in Kazakhstan has sacked the last top official appointed during the ...

Rustam Emomali, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon’s 37-year-old son, had his first official meeting with Putin on May 28, ...

The Taliban’s acting minister of commerce and trade, Haji Nooruddin Azizi, showed up at the Astana International Forum on May ...

The IEA’s Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025 notes that global demand for lithium increased by 30 percent in 2024 over the ...