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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a vision for a Soviet Union-lite he hopes will become a new Moscow-led global powerhouse. But, his planned Eurasian Union won't be grounded in ideology: This time it's about trade.
Switch on Kazakhstan state television's evening news and it almost always opens with an item testifying to the nation's stability and economic prowess. So it was a shock when a recent edition began with the president announcing a state of emergency in a town rocked by deadly clashes between demonstrators and police.
At least 10 people were killed Friday in violent clashes between police and demonstrators in an oil town in western Kazakhstan where workers have been protesting for higher wages, authorities said.
Kyrgyzstan presidential election winner Almazbek Atambayev's moment of glory was soured Monday by a stinging assessment from international vote monitors and news of protests in the turbulent south of the country.
Glamour queen. International diplomat. Plunderer of the poor.
Russia lashed out Tuesday at an offer by the European Union to broker talks between energy-rich former Soviet nations Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan aimed at creating a natural gas pipeline that would carry Turkmen fuel to the West.
Authorities in Uzbekistan have blocked dozens of Internet sites in an apparent attempt to further stem the flow of information into the authoritarian Central Asian nation, online media said Thursday.
A top oil producer in Kazakhstan announced Wednesday that it has resumed laying off striking workers at one of its production plants in an attempt to stem the severe drop in output caused by the industrial action.
Discussing potential successors to the long-serving president of oil-rich Kazakhstan is normally a political parlor game to be played behind closed doors in this authoritarian Central Asian nation.
Prominent figures in Turkmenistan's exiled opposition say they intend to accept the president's invitation to return to home and take part in the Central Asian nation's elections next year.
The authoritarian government of Turkmenistan said Sunday that 15 people died after a large explosion rocked a town outside the Turkmen capital earlier this week and lashed out at the coverage of the blast by the Russian media.
Human Rights Watch condemned Kazakhstan's government on Friday for forcibly repatriating more than two dozen people to neighboring Uzbekistan, where the group says they may face torture.
Dance music blares from reopened discos. Outdoor markets throng with shoppers. The aromas of skewered lamb waft across crowded eateries.
Turkish president held talks Monday with Turkmenistan's officials amid complaints by Turkish construction companies that they are owed about $1 billion in unpaid bills for their work in revamping the capital city.
The isolated former Soviet nation of Turkmenistan is likely sitting on top of the world's second-largest gas field, British energy auditor Gaffney, Cline & Associates said Wednesday.
A top adviser to Kazakhstan's president has proposed transforming a business lobbying group into a political party that could break up the Nur Otan party's monopoly grip on parliament.
Kazakhstan's longtime leader overwhelmingly won re-election in a vote sharply criticized Monday by international monitors who cited numerous cases of ballot box-stuffing, voter intimidation and a lack of transparency.
As a Soyuz spacecraft slowly rolls to its launchpad on the icy cold steppes of Kazakhstan, even the most seasoned space fan cannot help but be spellbound by the sight.
Turkmenistan's authoritarian president has been described in leaked U.S. diplomatic dispatches as a vain, vindictive liar, and authorities reportedly feared his being assassinated so much that a stray cat was once a suspect.
The former Soviet republic of Belarus announced Wednesday that it will give up its stockpile of material used to make nuclear weapons by 2012.
They call him Tajikistan's Osama bin Laden.
Kyrgyzstan's attempt to bring parliamentary democracy to Central Asia got off to a rocky start Monday with an election surprise that handed a leading position to a nationalist party opposed to the country's new constitution.
Down the entire length of Navoi street in this southern Kyrgyz city, piles of sand await use as construction materials by homeless ethnic Uzbeks.
Softly singing along to the wistful strains of Ethiopian music, Haymanot Tesgaye and his friends are transported back to their homeland in Africa, far from this Central Asian nation where they have been stranded for two decades.
Kazakhstan's failure to improve media freedom has damaged its international standing and the situation is getting worse, not better, a media advocacy group said in a report Tuesday.
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