Tumar, a 14-year-old Karakalpak shepherd, sits on a ledge watching over her flock on a beautiful sunny day. Down in the valley below, the Amu Darya River flows calmly as Bobur, a 14-year-old Uzbek boy ...

The coal-powered Balkhash power station is the oldest in Kazakhstan, first launched in 1937. Kazakhstan hopes to build a ...

The latest set of European Union sanctions aimed at exerting pressure on Russia includes two companies based in Uzbekistan among the list of entities seen lending support to the ongoing invasion of ...

A decade-long battle over multibillion-dollar assets involving the bête noire of Kazakhstan’s government has dragged a powerful billionaire close to ruler-for-life Nursultan Nazarbayev into a court ...

A court in Kazakhstan has inserted itself into the Russia-Ukraine conflict, ruling in favor of the Ukrainian state gas entity ...

Kyrgyzstan’s parliament seems ready to authorize a significant expansion of the state security services’ powers to surveil ...

At the same time, a study published this winter found that glacier mass in Central Asia could decline by one-third by 2040, ...

Azerbaijan is opening its land border for the first time since the start of the Covid pandemic, announcing the resumption of ...

The Middle Corridor trade route is filling out. China and Kazakhstan have announced the launch of a new freight rail transit line that will deliver Chinese goods to Europe while bypassing Russia.

Kazakh officials are haggling with a Rosatom subsidiary, asserting that the Russian entity has failed to fulfill contractual ...

The International Energy Agency is spotlighting Uzbekistan for the country’s rapid embrace of electric vehicles. An IEA report, titled Global EV Outlook 2025, notes that electric vehicle sales have ...