ASTANA – Kazakhstan has improved its global standing in the Henley Passport Index, climbing three positions to 63rd place, ...

Local authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second city, said Lenin’s removal was for purely aesthetic reasons; they would re-erect him in another, less central spot. Not everyone in Russia was convinced.

ISLAMABAD -- Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan signed a framework agreement last week to build a railway line connecting landlocked Central Asia to Pakistani seaports, although analysts say the ...

Central Asia has been a bellwether of the Sino-Russian relationship. Russia accounts for almost all of Kazakhstan’s imported ...

The Israel-Iran conflict has shown that Central Asia’s bid for strategic autonomy is deeply fragile. In a world of unraveling alliances and multiplying crises, Central Asia is quietly finding its ...

Across Kazakhstan, and more broadly in Central Asia, an evolving censorship achieved by various means -- from algorithmic ...

Home to Central Asia’s biggest Comic Con, Kazakhstan nurtures home-grown talent In this episode of Modern Nomads, we dive into Kazakhstan’s emerging comics scene—following a local artist who now works ...

Central Asia is the northern frontier of the Islamic world, and Central Asian leaders have mixed feelings about this. Being part of the Islamic world separates the region from former colonial ...

CABAR.asia: Recently, the authorities of the Central Asian countries have been actively regulating online activities, adopting various laws that help them control the internet.