The 52-year-old former sports teacher will join the millions of ethnic Russians who have left Central Asia since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union -- dismayed by shrinking job opportunities ...

Central Asia relies on remittances from migrant workers in Russia, as well as imports of sugar and wheat. One of the world’s biggest pipelines carries most of Kazakhstan’s oil to a Russian ...

The 52-year-old former sports teacher will join the millions of ethnic Russians who have left Central Asia since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union — dismayed by shrinking job opportunities ...

Many ethnic Russians in Central Asia share the same story. Their parents were sent there under the Soviet Union to develop agriculture in the steppes of Kazakhstan, extract raw materials from the ...