Even as Russia stages a series of military drills with its allies in Central Asia, Moscow's hold over a region it considers its own backyard appears to be growing increasingly tenuous.

Read on! Central Asia has always been left out in the study of politics. For the Cold War, it basically means US-Soviet Union—the Soviet Union was ruled by the Russians—in fact, the term “Soviet” and ...

ASTANA – The Astana Times has picked a selection of articles on Kazakhstan published in international media across the world.

Very little information has appeared about the region of Central Asia in books and articles. There are two reasons for this problem. First of all, there is really no country that one can identify in ...

The flag carrier of Kazakhstan, Air Astana, was launched 23 years ago to succeed the nation's former flag carrier, Air ...

Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia, offers 15 ... all 15 republics in the union. With discos raking ...

By Kanat Shaku in Almaty Olaf Scholz concluded his first visit to Central Asia as German chancellor with a September 17 “5+1” ...

The seeds of the Aral Sea basin water crisis were planted in 1959 when the Soviet Union picked Central Asia to serve as its cotton supplier. Though cotton had been grown in Central Asia before ...

Only Central Asia and Azerbaijan will weather the demographic storm affecting the rest of the former Soviet Union.

Azerbaijan and Central Asia are joining forces to explore new strategic opportunities and tackle regional challenges ...

By Uditha Devapriya This is the first of a two-part article published in The Diplomat. On Wednesday, August 21, 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sri Lanka, together with The Geopolitical ...