Central Asia is balancing economic ties with Russia, avoiding sanctions fallout, and leveraging Western initiatives while ...

By Bruce Pannier When the Taliban took control of most of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, the governments of the Central Asian ...

A special adviser to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is scheduled to embark on an 11-day trip to five Central Asian countries through Feb. 8, beginning with Kazakhstan, the Japanese government said ...

One of the biggest threats to human health, and a major source of air pollution, is regularly hidden in statistical reports ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is raising hopes in Kazakhstan that long-reviled Jackson-Vanik trade restrictions ...

Central Asia is cementing itself as a confident middle power region, exerting its independence through strategic partnerships ...

As the new administration charts its foreign policy course, a stronger Central Asia-U.S. partnership can serve as a model for ...

Over 10 weeks, RFE/RL hosted discussions on Twitter Spaces on various issues that affect daily life in Central Asia. We looked at global issues -- from the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine ...

ASTANA – The Astana Hub, Kazakhstan’s international technology park, was awarded the Top Startup Ecosystem in Central Asia by ...

Human Rights Watch report released last week describes the five Central Asian republics as an environment under law-breaking ...

Soviet-influenced curricula excelled at producing specialists in subjects that served centrally planned economies. As Central ...

Human Rights Watch criticised the "worsening" rights situation in Central Asia in a report published this week, saying the region's five ex-Soviet countries had all jailed dissenters and ramped up ...