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

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has signed a law requiring all trials to be recorded and makes the failure to do so grounds ...

For the principle of “constructive engagement” to prevail, Tokayev argued for far-reaching structural reform of the United Nations so that it “reflects the world as it is, not as it was.” For the UN ...

The race to build Kazakhstan’s first nuclear power plant appears to be tightening. The Russian nuclear entity Rosatom has ...

It looks like Armenia and Azerbaijan are in for a very warm peace if they ever they get around to signing a treaty to end ...

Russia has long used the food and beverage industry as an instrument of coercion. Georgians have experienced such pressure ...

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

Khurshed Faizullozoda, the head of the Presidential Agency for Innovation and Digital Technologies, blamed mountains for ...

The government’s fixation on shadowy conspiracies predates their use of the term ‘deep state.’ Years earlier, the party ...

In mid-March, the Trump Administration began its attempts to dismantle U.S. international broadcasting, including RFE/RL.

Since the pandemic, Uzbekistan has successfully attracted growing numbers of Russian and Chinese tourists, who enjoy ...