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 ...

The US government has agreed to help train Kazakh specialists in the operation of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), ...

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 ...

This essay is part of a series by American diplomats sharing their impressions of the dramatic early years of Central Asia's independence from the Soviet Union. These memoirs were written at the ...

Few people better embody Ukraine’s struggle with vested interests than industrialist Rinat Akhmetov. Revolutions in 2004 and 2014 hurt his bottom line, but Akhmetov is still Ukraine’s richest man. He ...

Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan may be inching closer than ever to hashing out a border delimitation deal that will end decades of territorial ambiguity. Less talk has been devoted, however, to the ...

In the summer of 1998, up-and-coming political and business star Viktor Pinchuk had just moved to Kyiv from his native Dnipropetrovsk. Only 38, he already had led an extraordinary life: He had built ...

Following Azerbaijan’s victory over Armenia in the 2020 Second Karabakh War, the country has seen a large-scale revival of attention to an obscure, extinct group once prominent in the region: 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, ...

After much suspense and speculation, Europe's doors opened slightly wider for Georgia on November 8 when the European Union laid out its plan for making itself a bigger place in the future. Georgia ...

On September 19, just days after Azerbaijan had launched an attack on Armenia, reviving fears of a larger invasion, an ominous campaign was launched in Azerbaijani pro-government media. Several news ...