In the late 1970s, Central Asia could seem to some like just another stagnating Soviet backwater. News of the day praised economic achievements that weren't real — just as local communist leaders ...

By Seymur Mammadov for News.Az in Baku More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asia remains a region defined by a striking paradox. It possesses abundant natural ...

Almaty, Kazakhstan (CNN) — Several cities around the globe have reinvented themselves in recent years, but none more successfully than Almaty. Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city ...