As Stalin-era factory turns to crypto mining, Georgian workers protest
The Agara Sugar Company, in the eponymous town about 90 kilometers from...
The Agara Sugar Company, in the eponymous town about 90 kilometers from...
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The president of Kyrgyzstan has earned some brownie points with the activist...
Armenia’s National Assembly voted overwhelmingly to install Serzh Sargsyan as prime minister...
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Mondays are not normally a busy day for cinemas, but at least...
A recent desperate and quixotic measure by Tajikistan’s government to boost budget...
Kazakhstan’s security services are sounding the alarm about a possible increase in...
The sweet, pungent aroma of vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves hangs in...
Residents of a town in southern Kyrgyzstan opposed to the construction of...
The high-ranking holdover allies of Kyrgyzstan’s former president are tumbling like bowling...
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On its heavily fortified border with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Armenia...
The utter control wielded by Tajikistan’s ruling family over business in the...
Sometimes, Zeinulla Kakimzhanov enjoys appearing in Forbes magazine....
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The Georgian government has unveiled an ambitious new project to reintegrate its...
The language of gold-making spills easily from people’s mouths in Kazarman. Every...
When the chief executive of one of Tajikistan’s few banking success stories...
Police in Kazakhstan have raided the offices of the local online edition...
It was like he had never left. Kyrgyzstan’s former president, Almazbek Atambayev,...
It has been many a year since Uzbekistan’s capital has seen such...
Security services in Kyrgyzstan have opened a second criminal investigation against former...
Kazakhstan has responded to a deadly blaze at a shopping mall in...
Nowruz, the Persian New Year, brings one certainty to Armenia, Azerbaijan and...
The set for Berkutchi, a movie production about the manmade famine that...
Azerbaijan’s controversial Formula 1 Grand Prix, scheduled to be held this April,...
Masha Udensiva-Brenner tells the story of New Yorker staff writer Adam Davidson’s...
Before all the trouble began, Nursultan was a model pupil....
Nowruz, the festival of the spring equinox, a ritual celebration of renewal,...
There were two certainties during the buildup to Russia’s presidential vote on...
A gathering of Central Asia presidents held in Kazakhstan’s capital this week...
Two high-profile criminal trials in Kazakhstan — one for murder and the...
In the two months between Vladimir Putin’s virtually assured victory on March...
A court in Kazakhstan has ruled to designate an opposition political movement...
The president of Uzbekistan was due to fly out of Tajikistan around...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly promised to tackle corruption. But in...
Both Russian and American media have come under scrutiny in the United...
In the boldest signal of bilateral amity to date, Uzbekistan’s president announced...
The village of Karajala is fairly typical of the dozens of settlements...
Most Russians would be forgiven for skipping this month’s presidential election. With...
The president of Kazakhstan’s daughter, who is herself also a high-ranking politician,...
Powerbrokers in Armenia are set to elect a new president, completing the...
With all the fanfare that accompanied the recent start to work on...
One year since a mid-sized bank in Tajikistan collapsed, savers have barely...
For years, Beijing has cast a shadow on a patch of swamp...
An opposition politician from Tajikistan has...
A member of parliament from Kyrgyzstan has been detained by law enforcement...
Murathan Tokmadi, a prominent businessman arrested in Kazakhstan last year on suspicion...
A good Muslim should look the part – legislation now being pushed...
Aruş Taş, a silversmith in Istanbul’s historic Grand Bazaar, has witnessed decades...
Nigar Kocharli opened her first bookstore – a small space in a...
Released from prison for a day to attend a memorial service for...
Armenia’s prime minister flew to the World Economic Forum in Davos using...
“To be a Eurasianist should be cool, it should be stylish.”...
It is the natural gas pipeline project that many have long said...
Azerbaijan has unexpectedly announced that it is moving up presidential elections, previously...
The largest hydroelectricity project in Georgia’s independent history looks set to go...
The morning in Uzbekistan began, fittingly enough, with an earthquake....
The president of Uzbekistan has in his most dramatic personnel reshuffle since...
Gafur Rakhimov, a businessman from Uzbekistan who has been linked by US...
People in Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh are increasingly opposed to making any...
A two-year moratorium in Tajikistan on inspections of privately owned industrial production...
Many of Tajikistan’s traditional banks are wobbling due to years of chronic...
Without warning one evening in November, agents from Kazakhstan’s security services mobbed...
On January 19, Armenia’s outgoing president Serzh Sargsyan presented his ambassador to...
A tiring, uncomfortable bus trip to Russia ended in tragedy for 52...
The Issyk-Kul highway was supposed to demonstrate that Kyrgyzstan was capable of...
The Armenian defense minister's attempt to crowdfund money for a wounded soldier's expensive...
Azerbaijan’s appetite for the grandiose shows no signs of satiation, as it...
Khinkali and Mikheil Saakashvili are among Georgia's best known brands. Combine the...
The visit of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev to Washington has generated a...
In a speech full of surprises over the weekend, the president of...
While low energy revenues have forced Azerbaijan's government to cut back in...
A scroll through Olim Sulaimanov’s Facebook page suggests nothing of a man...
Ilhom Nodirov, 25, has been working in Berlin for the past three...
The president of Uzbekistan called in a wide-ranging and consequential four-hour speech...
Since it’s that time of year again, readers with (or without) an...
On his land in the Svaneti mountains, Zaza Vibliani shows off his...
The state anticorruption agency in Tajikistan has detained three major debtors to...
China’s Belt and Road infrastructure development initiative will have its winners and...
The Paradise Papers comprise millions of leaked documents relating to offshore activities of...
In its annual budget, Tajikistan is relying on unusual accounting maneuvers to ensure...
A few weeks ago, residents of the village of Dadash, on Georgia's...
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has threatened companies stashing money abroad with ominous...
With its aged nuclear power plant scheduled to close in a decade,...
In 2011, Donald Trump and Georgia’s then president, Mikheil Saakashvili, signed an...
The president of Afghanistan has visited Uzbekistan on a mission to plug...
Kazakhstan’s state-run uranium producer has said it plans to cut back output...
In a long-awaited move, authorities in Kazakhstan have announced they will rename...
On November 28, a court in Yerevan sentenced Karabakh war hero Samvel...
A playwright in Tajikistan has written a semi-mystical and highly complimentary play...
A notorious high-ranking customs official in Kyrgyzstan has been fired in a...
The president of Tajikistan appears to be seizing on the audiobook fad...
With only days remaining before his six-year tenure as chief executive ends,...
Eurasia has no shortage of ambitious, difficult-to-implement transit route projects in the...
Kazakhstan’s National Bank will embark on research next year to find out...
Given the highly regionalized nature of power dynamics in Tajikistan, this weekend’s...
A court in Kazakhstan has ordered the release on parole of a...
The main losing candidate in the recent presidential election in Kyrgyzstan has...