Central Asia and the South Caucasus were once tightly bound to the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union. When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the region inherited messy borders, fragile ...

Alerts for a potential tsunami were issued for coastlines in North America, Hawaii, Russia and Japan after a powerful ...

This outbreak of reasonableness is fairly novel; in the past, Central Asian countries have generally preferred to bicker rather than to co-operate. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 ...

The default position in the capitals of the five Central Asian republics, known as the “Stans” (see map), has been to profess neutrality over the war and refuse to give Russia diplomatic cover ...