Kazakhstan and, to a lesser extent, Uzbekistan and other Central Asian states are finding themselves caught in the middle of ...

Amid a typically slow news cycle during vacation season, an intriguing tidbit appeared August 17 on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s official website, a couple of lines about a tête-à-tête with ...

Kyrgyzstan has provided some clarity on the source of the recent blackout that impacted four states in Central Asia, while vigorously denying blame for the cascading outage. Power outages were first ...

Kate Watters, executive director of the environmental and human rights organization Crude Accountability, said that US and EU diplomatic approaches have undergone a “whole paradigm shift,” in which ...

Despite apparent financing difficulties hovering over the construction of nuclear reactors in Uzbekistan, the Russian nuclear ...

The bad economic news keeps coming for the Russian economy. An analysis of Russian government data by the business daily Vedomosti shows that the influx of Central Asian labor migrants to Russia fell ...

Iran’s military is conducting large-scale military drills on its border with Azerbaijan, including practicing crossings of the Aras River, which defines a large part of the border between the two ...

Repeated Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries have caused the Kremlin to limit exports of fuel products, including ...

Erlan Benedis-Grab is a researcher at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute. He holds a dual B.A. in Economics and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, and his research focuses on ...

Amid a thicket of hopeful rhetoric surrounding the construction of a trans-Afghan pipeline that would carry natural gas from Turkmenistan to South Asia, tangible signs of progress are hard to find.

A decision reportedly adopted by Kazakh-language primary schools near Kazakhstan’s capital to allow instruction in some classrooms to take place in Russian is angering local champions of the native ...

After more than three decades of closure, the Türkiye-Armenia border may soon reopen. A string of recent developments, including the launch of Turkish Airlines flights to Yerevan, agreements to ...