- Responsible AI Rankings: Uzbekistan Leads in Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan to Increase Trade and Economic Cooperation
- China the Largest Market for Kazakhstan’s Agricultural Products
- Daughter of Civil Activist in Turkmenistan Not Allowed to Leave Country
- Dangerous Afghan Sodas Seized in Kyrgyz Stores
- Cardiff University to Open Branch in Astana
- Kazakhstan Intensifies Efforts to Combat Extremism
- Tajikistan-Born Singer, Criticized in Russia, Prepares to Release an Anti-War Song
- Signs of Ancient Urban Culture Unearthed in Turkmenistan
- Kyrgyzstan Raises Price of Coal Exports to Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan’s Capital to Switch to Russian Gas
- How Limits on Electricity Use will Impact Uzbekistan
- Nursultan Nazarbayev Stripped of Academy of Sciences Membership
- Russia Deports Thousands of Tajik Citizens
- Turkish Company to Build Vegetable Storage Facility in Kazakhstan
- Rise in Uzbekistan’s Foreign Trade Turnover
- British Publisher Promotes Kyrgyz Artists
- Kazakhstan to Increase Municipal Waste Processing
- Kyrgyz Labor Migrants Now Welcome in Sardinia
- Turkey Seeks Deal on Turkmen Gas
- China to Help Kazakhstan Plant Artificial Forests on the Aral Sea
- Kazakhstan Welcomes Prospect of French Cuisine in Almaty
- Kazakhstan Refuses to Finance an Artificial Rain Project over the Aral Sea
- EFSD to Build Nine Schools in Kyrgyzstan
- ADB to Support Climate-Friendly Business Environment in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan to Introduce Tourist Tax for Foreign Visitors
- Ex-Chairman of Kazakhstan’s KNB Denied Pardon
- Rise in Kyrgyzstan Foster Families
- Foreign Investment in Beverage Production and Bottling Plant, Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan Launches NATO-Standard Armored Vehicle
- Saudi and Chinese Companies to Cooperate on Wind Power Projects in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan Sends Almost 4 Billion Cubic Meters of Irrigation Water to Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan Launches Export of Mineral Fertilizers to Afghanistan
- U.S. to Assist Kazakhstan in Rare Metals Exploration
- Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan Plan New Railway Line
- Mark Cavendish, British Cyclist from Astana Qazaqstan Team, Takes Record Stage Win
- IMF: Uzbekistan’s Foreign Debt to Decrease by 10% in 2029
- A Eurasian Perspective on the Historic Conviction of U.S. Senator Bob Menendez
- Kazakhstan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Russia to Develop North-South Transport Corridor
- Chinese Company Opens Genetic Laboratory in Astana
- Russia Ups Ban on Migrant Employment
- Kazakhstan to Export Meat and Live Cattle to China
- Ashgabat Hosts Seminar on Artificial Intelligence
- Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan Launch Joint Projects, Seek to Increase Trade
- Saudi Islamic Development Bank Increasing Its Presence in Central Asia
- Construction begins on Kazakhstan’s First Hybrid Power Plant
- Kyrgyz Security Chief’s Brother-In-Law Detained on Large-Scale Fraud Charges
- Large-Scale Logistics Center to Open in Samarkand
- ADB Allocates $100 Million for Perinatal Care in Uzbekistan
- Four New Gas Processing Plants to be Commissioned in Kazakhstan
- EU Urges Tajikistan to Investigate Human Rights Violations
- Turkmenistan Unblocks 3 Billion IP Addresses — But Why?
- Kazakhstan Weighs Down on Human Trafficking
- Uzbekistan Opens New Credit Line for Tourism Projects
- Facing Pressures, Koytendag Nature Refuge in Turkmenistan Aims for UNESCO Status
- Prime Minister: Kyrgyzstan’s Economy Needs to Make a “Leopard’s Leap”
- Danish Actor Mads Mikkelsen to Headline Comic Con in Kazakhstan
- The Rules of the Steppe: Countdown to the 2024 World Nomad Games
- Trading Volume of Ruble-Tenge Pair on Kazakh Exchange Tripled in June
- Belgian Company Expands Turkmenistan Operations to Support Growth of Middle Corridor
- Uzbekistan Sends Aid to Kyrgyzstan After Osh Region Floods
- Tigers to Return to Kazakhstan
- English Courses for Labor Migrants Open in Kyrgyzstan
- World Bank Projects Tajikistan’s Economic Growth
- Kazakhstan to Increase Transit of Russian, Turkmen, and Uzbek Gas in 2024
- Energy Minister: Kazakhstan Needs Liquefied Gas For Petrochemical Industry
- First Chinese Freight Train Leaves For Iran via Turkmenistan
- Production of Granulated Gold and Silver Launched in Uzbekistan
- EDB Forecasts Slowdown in Kyrgyzstan’s Economic Growth
- Kazakhstan Reports Steady Economic Growth in First Half of 2024
- Stay or Go? Uzbek Students Ponder Studies at Home, Abroad
- Teacher Alua Zhanatova Outlines the Growing Popularity of the Kazakh Language Amongst Young People
- Tajikistan Denies Report of Secret Chinese Military Base
- Henley Passport Index 2024: Kazakhstan Again the Strongest Central Asian Passport
- Chinese Company Plans to Produce Solar Panels in Tajikistan
- Head of Kazakhstan Football Federation Under Investigation by UEFA
- Large Bribes Being Extorted from Graduates of Foreign Universities in Turkmenistan
- Russia Prepares Course for Central Asian Migrants on How to Assimilate
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Set to Expand Economic Cooperation
- Transnational Companies Implement Seven Projects in Kazakhstan’s Agro-Industrial Sector
- The State of Civil Aviation in Central Asia Post-Pandemic and Amid Russia Sanctions
- Central Asia Reacts to Trump Assassination Attempt
- Erdogan: Turkey Wants to Become Full SCO Member
- Russian Securities Are Leaving Kazakhstan — Reports
- Afghanistan Ready to Implement TAPI Project
- Kazakhstan Seeks to Increase Local Content in Oil and Gas Equipment Production
- Uzbekistan’s Investment in Kazakhstan Reaches Record Levels
- An Overview of Kazakhstan’s Comic Industry by Oraskhan Zhakup, CEO Khan Comics
- World Bank to Provide Additional Support for Kambarata-1 Hydropower Project in Kyrgyzstan
- Boom in Uzbekistan’s International Flights
- New Projects Launched in Uzbekistan’s Fergana Region
- Eurasian Creative Week Held in Uzbekistan
- Law Firm That Helped Johnny Depp Has Another Big Client: Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan Urges Bulgaria to Utilize Potential of Trans-Caspian Transport Route
- Eurasian Development Fund: Funding for Rogun HPP Jeopardizes Other Projects
- Uzbekistan Creates Law to Address Excessive Energy Consumption
- Electrification of Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan Railroad Will Cost $300 Million
- Chinese Company to Invest in Uzbekistan’s Coal Mines
- It Wasn’t Like This Under Nazarbayev: Kazakhstan’s Party Political Landscape
- Kyrgyzstan and Russia to Expand Cooperation Across the Board
- EDB to Finance Mountain Resort in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan-EU Transport and Logistics Cooperation
- A Rocky Romance in Kyrgyzstan: Boyfriend of President’s Niece is Arrested
- Almaty’s Aspan Gallery Champions Central Asian Art at Home and Abroad
- Why Is Bishkek Getting Rid of Trolleybuses?
- Uzbekistan and Afghanistan Discuss Railroad Projects and Freight Traffic
- Turkmenistan Discusses Transit Logistics With Company From China’s Shandong
- Central Asia’s Water Crisis
- Russian Laboratory to Combat Dangerous Infections in Kyrgyzstan
- Poland Asks Turkmenistan to Open a Consulate in Warsaw
- Kyrgyz Minister: Dependence on Western Technology to Blame for Russian Payment Ban
- Expansion of Japanese Investment in Uzbekistan
- USAID Equips Mega Fruit Storage Facility in South Kyrgyzstan
- Will Kazakhstan Manage to Save the National Fund?
- Intrigue Shadows a Rugged Motor Race with Central Asian Roots
- Uzbekistan: Bukhara Administration Denies Relocation of “Eternal Bukhara”
- Over 200 UNDP Projects Implemented in Kazakhstan
- UN’s Guterres and Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov Discuss Development, Security
- Turkish Vice President: Turkmen Gas Supplies Via Turkey Will Help Ensure Energy Security in Europe
- World Bank Establishes Permanent Office in Tajikistan
- Turkmen Watermelons Struggle to Compete with Iranian Imports
- Uzbekistan Offered Opportunity to Invest in Gas and Oil in Afghanistan
- China Supports Kazakhstan’s Bid to Join BRICS
- Kazakhstan’s Rail Transportation of Cargo Rises to Over 122 Million Tons
- Kazakhstan to Double Milk Production in Three Years
- Kyrgyz-Turkish Oil Refinery Nears Completion in South Kyrgyzstan
- Central Asian Countries and Azerbaijan Begin Military Exercises in Kazakhstan
- Paving the Path Westward: Insights from the Astana and Shusha Summits
- SCO Summit: A Battle for Influence in Central Asia
- Roundtable on Uzbekistan’s Reform Agenda
- EDB Identifies Key Risks for Tajikistan’s Economy
- Kyrgyz Council Deputy Arrested for Calling for Riots
- OECD Representative Office May Open in Kazakhstan
- Foreign Political Parties Banned in Uzbekistan
- Nuclear Race: Will Central Asia Build a Nuclear Power Plant?
- More Invacarriages Added to Kazakhstan’s Trains
- Kyrgyz-Uzbek Automobile Plant Imports Components from Uzbekistan
- Turkmen Sewing: From Ancient Traditions to Modern Art
- EBRD Plans to Double Investments in Kazakhstan in 2024
- UN: Central Asia’s Big Youth Population is Key to Progress
- Kazakh Government Is Trying (Again) To Introduce An Unpopular Betting Law
- Kazakh Art Abroad: Interview with Saida Sheikhova
- Tourist Accommodation Booms in Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan and China Tighten Strategic Partnership
- Tokayev Calls For Expanded SCO to Play Greater Role on Global Stage
- Kyrgyzstan to Support Female Entrepreneurship
- Mixed Results for Kazakhstan in Media Freedom Rankings
- Tajikistan and Switzerland Strengthen Cooperation in Banking
- Case Opened Against Subsidiary of Russia’s Lukoil in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan Poised to Host the 2035 Asian Cup
- Kyrgyzstan Parliamentarian in Brawl with Security Guard
- China Seeks to Import 20,000 Tons of Pork from Kazakhstan
- Drop in Uzbekistan’s Gold Sales
- UNDP Launches Course on Gender Issues in Turkmenistan
- Universities of Kazakhstan and China to Cooperate on Microsatellite Launch
- Kyrgyzstan and Switzerland Strengthen Cooperation
- Taking the Necessary Steps to Curb Child Abuse in Kazakhstan
- Astana Unveils Monument to Great Turkmen Poet Pyragy
- Astana Qazaqhstan Team’s Stellar Rise from the Ashes
- Travel Guide to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan Presented in Seoul
- Kyrgyz Supreme Court Upholds Sentence of Activist Zarina Torokulova
- Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan Nominate Traditional Craft of ‘Guram’ for UNESCO Cultural Heritage List
- Illegal Underground Tunnel Unearthed on Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan Border
- SCO Summit: Eurasian Alliance Signs Security Agreements; Welcomes Belarus
- Remittances to Central Asia and Europe Down 10%
- Turkmenistan and Iran Sign Natural Gas Swap Deal
- Hungarian Company to Develop Smart Parking for Tashkent
- Uzbek Afghan Business Forum
- Chinese Power Plant for Western Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan’s Foreign Trade Turnover Reaches $62 Billion
- SCO Round-Up
- Two-Dimensional Outlook Characterizes Western Media Response to SCO Summit
- Kazakhstan and China Cement Strategic Partnership
- China Invests over $5 billion in Tajikistan’s Energy Sector
- Iran to Provide Kazakhstan with Irrigation Technology
- Diplomatic Scandal: Kyrgyz Ambassador Fired for “Khanate of Permissiveness”
- New Plant for Deep Processing of Grain in Kostanay, Kazakhstan
- AstraZeneca Manufacture of Medicines in Kazakhstan
- Turkish Investment in Greenhouses in Kazakhstan
- South Korea to Build Biofuel Plant in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan and China Collaborate on Container Hub for Aktau Port
- Former Employee of Academy of Sciences Detained in Kyrgyzstan
- Astana Hosts SCO Summit: A New Platform for Kazakh Diplomacy
- Putin in Full Diplomatic Mode on SCO Sidelines
- SCO Summit: Tokayev and Xi Laud Kazakhstan-China Ties
- A Permanent Piece of ‘Home’: The Trend for Kyrgyz Ornament Tattoos
- First Container Train on South Korea – China – Kazakhstan – Uzbekistan Route
- The National Bank of Uzbekistan Places Bonds on the London Stock Exchange
- Representatives of World Bank and IFC Speak About Projects in Tajikistan
- Uzbek Electronics Retailer Secures EBRD $10 Million Loan
- Turkmenistan to Start Cargo Transit via Iranian Railroads
- Kazakhstan to House One of Central Asia’s Largest E-Commerce Distribution Centres
- Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea Level Rises by Over a Metre
- ADB to Allocate $50 Million to Support Economic Reforms in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakh journalist Aidos Sadykov died in Kyiv
- A Greater Role for Kazakhstan’s Media
- Top Kazakh Businessman Denies Allegations about Greek Island Fire
- Participants at SCO Summit in Astana to Adopt New Security Paradigm
- SCO Summit in Astana: Will the West Accept the Role of the “Middle Powers”?
- SCO Summit in Astana: Correspondents from China Global Television Network, Times of Central Asia Discuss Upcoming Meeting
- Qosh Tepa Canal Threatens Water Balance in Central Asia
- Pakistan Can Become a Transport Hub for Central Asian Countries
- Push to Increase Youth Employment in Uzbekistan.
- Almaty to Host International Conference KazHackStan-2024
- Uzbekistan’s Consumer Confidence Index Falls to Record Low
- U.S. State Department Criticizes Tajikistan for Religious Restrictions
- Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Holds Meeting with U.S. Business Mission
- Development of Uzbekistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan Transport Corridor
- Islamic State Khorasan Province as Part of the Struggle for Central Asia
- Iranian Cooperation with Kazakhstan on New Terminal at Bandar Abbas Port
- Construction Starts on Kyrgyzstan’s Latest Hydropower Plant
- U.N. Chief to Deliver Peace Message during Central Asia Tour
- Children Among Nine Killed in Mudflows in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan, UNDP, and Eurasian Development Bank Unite in Water Management
- Central Asia Needs $12 Billion to Secure Drinking Water
- Uzbekistan and Turkey to Develop Military and Technical Cooperation
- Journalist and Politician Ahmadshokh Komilzoda Detained in Tajikistan
- Investigation into ISIS-linked Group Smuggling Uzbek Migrants into the U.S.
- Russia Sends Some 10,000 Migrants to War in Ukraine
- Turkmenistan Strengthens Cooperation with Japanese Investors
- U.S. Seeks Alternative Routes for Central Asia’s Exports
- Turkmenistan to Increase Border Crossing Limit from Afghanistan to 120 Trucks Daily
- Largest Makerspace Opens in Kyrgyzstan with U.S. Support
- Fugitive Oligarchs Ablyazov and Khrapunov Ordered to Return $32 Million to Kazakhstan by U.S. Court
- New Report Analyses Eurasian Transport Network
- New Industrial Zone Launched with Chinese Investment in Uzbekistan
- Islamic Development Bank Pledges up to $2 Billion for Infrastructure Projects in Kazakhstan
- Inside Turkmenistan: What Self-Isolation Reveals About the Nation
- Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry Accuses David Cameron of “Misinformation”
- Kazakh Tourists Who Left Greece Face Charges in Island Fire
- First Electric Vehicles Roll Off China’s BYD Assembly Line in Uzbekistan
- Kuandyk Bishimbayev Murder Sentence Appeal Rejected
- Will Kumtor’s ‘Tails’ Benefit or Harm Kyrgyzstan?
- Turkmenistan Discusses TAPI Pipeline with Officials from UAE, Pakistan
- Tajikistan and OSCE Discuss Cooperation
- Kyrgyzstan to Construct Solar Plant with Chinese Partners
- Doctor Shortage in Turkmenistan’s Prisons
- Tokayev Announces Referendum on New Power Plant
- Uzbekistan to Protect Children from Religious Extremism
- Kyrgyz-Chinese Trade and Economic Cooperation Centre Opens in Urumqi
- China’s Xinjiang Offers Kazakhstan Assistance in Cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao
- EU-Funded Projects Strengthen Central Asia’s Trade and Economic Ties
- Kyrgyzstan’s President Apologizes Over Niece’s Use of State Helicopter
- Kazakhstan’s Attempts to Address Disinformation and Media Freedom
- Kazakh Poet Bakhyt Kenzheev Dies at 74
- Uzbekistan Unveils Development Plan for Copper Industry Cluster
- Kyrgyzstan and EU Strengthen Economic Cooperation
- The Government of Tajikistan and FLSmidth to Cooperate in Mining
- Kazakhstan Stock Exchange Set to Recoup Shares from Moscow Exchange
- Kyrgyzstan Raises Doctors’ Salaries
- EDB Annual Meeting and Business Forum to Focus on Eurasian Transport Network
- Chinese Investment in Deep Processing Grain Plant in Kazakhstan
- A Million New Jobs on the Horizon in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan and EU Sign Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement
- Mirziyoyev Discusses Cooperation with Russian Minister of Internal Affairs
- Uzbekistan Launches Mechanism for Recognizing Foreign Citizens as “Undesirable” Elements
- Kazakhstan Facing Challenge of Developing Roads in Ninth Largest Country in World
- Uzbekistan: Deaf Photographers Document the World Around Them
- Kazakhstan Supplies Vital Radiopharmaceuticals to Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan and Mongolia to Develop Multifaceted Cooperation
- TikTok Tourism in Kazakhstan
- Water in Kazakhstan’s North Aral Sea Rises by Over a Billion Cubic Meters
- U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan Matthew Klimow Completes His Mission
- French Company Signs Contract With Karachaganak Consortium
- Uzbekistan to Present Silk Roads Exhibition at British Museum
- Over a Million Ethnic Kazakhs Have Returned to Kazakhstan Since 1991
- Alleged Arson: Greek Authorities Detain Crew of Pleasure Boat Carrying Kazakh Tourists
- Central Asian Leaders Offer Support, Condolences to Putin After Dagestan Attack
- Tajikistan to Export 70% of Rogun Electricity to Central Asia
- U.S. Ranks Among Top Ten in Uzbekistan’s Foreign Trade Turnover
- Kazakhstan to Invest $1 Billion in Repairing Water Management Infrastructure
- Uranium Purification Plant to be Rebuilt in Kyrgyzstan
- Virtual Academy on Countering Corruption to Start Work in Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan Province Bans Child Labor in Cotton Harvesting
- Prominent Political Figure Akbarsho Iskandarov Detained in Tajikistan
- UNDP and Samruk Kazyna Support Socially Vulnerable Young People in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan to Build New Checkpoint on Border with China
- Border Dispute No More: Are Bishkek and Dushanbe Ready to Make Peace?
- ADB Funds Wastewater Management and Sustainable Tourism in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan
- Decline in Uzbekistan’s Production of Natural Gas, Oil and Coal
- Kazakhstan Pushes New Measures to Utilize its Transit Potential
- Results of Visit of the U.S. Trade Representative to Kazakhstan
- Firefighters Evacuate People from Burning High-Rise in Astana
- EDB Upgrades Economic Growth Forecast for Most Member States
- Uzbek Prison Visit by EU, US, and UK Diplomats
- Aidos Sadykov Shooting: First Suspect Detained by Kazakhstan Authorities
- “Photography in Kazakhstan is Characterized by Local Flavor”: Interview with Photographer Veronika Lerner
- In Kyrgyzstan, a Woman Kept Foreigners in Slave Labor
- Kazakhstan: Preconceived Notions and Changed Minds
- Who is Aidos Sadykov?
- Companies from the Netherlands Consider Investing in Turkmenistan’s Agricultural Sector
- Testing Limits: Marathoners Head For the Shrinking Aral Sea to Run in the Desert
- Rice Production on the Rise in Turkmenistan
- Uzbek Citizens Still Facing Difficulties When Entering Russia
- Uzbekistan Joins ILO Convention on Equal Opportunities for Working Family Members
- Alternative Transport Routes in Kazakhstan: Potential and Current Opportunities
- World Bank Awards Uzbekistan $7.5 Million in Carbon Credits for Emissions Reduction
- Kazakhstan to Build the Largest Poultry Farm in CIS
- Tajikistan’s Former Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi Detained in Dushanbe
- Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production in Kazakhstan
- Campuses of Three Foreign Universities to Open in Kazakhstan
- Is Kazakhstan’s Parliament About to Ban Religious Clothing?
- Kyrgyz-German Business Forum
- Suspected Attackers of Kazakhstan Blogger Aidos Sadykov Identified
- Chinese Company to Build Automobile Plant in Uzbekistan for $1.5 bln
- Kazakh MP Accuses Nazarbayev’s Relatives of Raiding
- Threat of Cholera Prompts Tajikistan to Test Its Water
- Central Asian Countries Gather to Share Air Pollution Solutions
- Tajikistan Killings Happened in Isolated Area with Volatile History
- Rosatom Begins Construction of NPP in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan and EU Negotiating on Simplification of Visa Procedures
- Uzbekistan Seeks to Boost its Jewellery Industry
- Malaysian and Chinese Companies to Aid Development of Green Energy in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan Offers Low-Interest Loans for Agro-Industrial Sector
- ‘Save the Berkuts’ Campaign Launched in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: A Partnership Born From Rivalry
- Kyrgyzstan to Take Chinese Loan to Build Railroad
- Kyrgyzstan Promotes Investment in Mineral Resources
- One Dead in Mudflows in Southern Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan Reports Rise in Rail Cargo
- Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan to Invest in Fiber Optic Cables in Caspian Sea
- Kazakhstan’s Irrigation Water to be Swelled by 560 Million Cubic Meters from Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan to Establish 5G Mobile Coverage by 2026
- Sogd-2024 International Trade Fair Marks First Decade
- Controversial Kazakh Opposition Figure Aidos Sadykov Shot in Kyiv
- Men in Black Blamed for Series of Murders in Northern Tajikistan
- Eurasian Connectivity Comes One Step Closer at the 2024 CAMCA Forum in Bishkek
- Petition against ‘LGBT Propaganda’ in Kazakhstan: Opinions and Comments
- World Bank: Uzbekistan Must Tackle Gender Inequality
- UN Approves Uzbekistan’s Initiative to Develop Global Safe Tourism Code
- Kazakhstan Developing Digital System of Flood Forecasting and Modeling
- Decrease in Uzbek Labor Migrants to Russia Forecast to Continue
- China to Invest $1 Billion in Andijan Province of Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan in 80th Place in New Global Ranking of Average Wages
- Focus on Central Asia’s Acute Shortage of Drinking Water
- Kazakhstan and South Korea Forward Cooperation in Forestry
- Two City Railway Stations Renovated in Kazakhstan
- Iran Seeks Observer Status in EEU
- Kazakhstan Mourns Murat Auezov – Intellectual, Diplomat, Activist and Patriot
- Afghan and Emirati Companies Making Use of Turkmenistan Stock Exchange
- Kazakhstan Insurers Sign Partnership with Warren Buffett’s Company
- Germany Negotiating Afghan Deportation Deal with Uzbekistan
- IFAD Representative Office Opens in Uzbekistan
- U.S. Blacklists Uzbek Nationals Due to ISIS Connections
- Water Shortages in Kyrgyzstan’s Cities Despite Full Reservoirs
- The Evolution of Kazakh Ornamentation
- Success of Kazakhstan’s JobEscape Start-up
- Former Opposition Party Leader Saidjafar Usmonzoda Arrested in Tajikistan
- USAID Supports Central Asian Women Working in Hospitality
- Kazakhstan Set to Develop Halal Market
- Kazakhstan and Central Asia Present Investment Opportunities to Swedish Parliament
- Kyrgyzstan’s President Says Acquitted Protesters Deserved “At Least a Fine or Probation”
- Dreaming of Paris, Fighting for Power: Electricity in Central Asia
- Cannes Award-Winning Film, “Anora” Vexes Uzbek Public
- Controversial Petition on “LGBT Propaganda” Passes Threshold for Consideration in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan and U.S. Focus on Strengthening Trade and Investment Cooperation
- U.S. and Central Asia Further Trade, Economic and Investment Cooperation
- Uzbekistan and Korea Forge New, High-Tech Agenda for Strategic Partnership
- Kyrgyz Banks Restrict Money Transfers to Russia
- PepsiCo to Build Snack Production Plant in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan President Pinpoints Flaws in Tourism Development
- Famous Tajik Blogger Subjected to Domestic Violence
- Uzbekistan to Establish International Financial and Technology Center
- Uzbekistan Purchases High-Speed Electric Trains
- Kazakh Chess Player Wins World Junior Title in India
- Radicalism Attracts Disenfranchised Youth in Tajikistan
- Pavel Durov’s Visit to Issyk-Kul Sparks Investment Hopes
- Kyrgyzstan Pays Russia $64 million for Stake in the Eurasian Development Bank
- Mass Brawl Between Citizens of Pakistan and Bangladesh Reported in Bishkek
- Indian Companies Interested in Turkmenistan’s Seaport
- Virtual Standstill in Tajikistan’s Baljuvan Oil Production
- How Sanctions Against the Moscow Exchange Will Affect Kazakhstan
- Arrests of People from Tajikistan Who Crossed Border into U.S. Fuel Terrorism Worries
- Cargo Transport from Uzbekistan to EU Countries via Latvia
- South Korean Corporation Bank to Open in Kazakhstan
- First Cargo Transported from Pakistan to Azerbaijan via Kazakhstan
- U.S. Program Improves Lives of Over 300,000 Kyrgyz Citizens
- SPECA Countries’ Digitalization of Multimodal Data Exchange along Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor
- Kazakhstan and South Korea to Cooperate in Critical Minerals, Oil and Gas
- Women in Central Asia in Need of Protection from Violence
- Kazakhstan and South Korea: “A Golden Bridge of Friendship”
- Kazakhstan’s National Railway Carrier Under Threat of Default
- Kyrgyzstan Introduces Temporary Ban on Deputies’ International Travel
- Kyrgyzstan’s Eco-Activists Question Official Data on Rare Animals
- Kazakhstan’s First Automobile Tunnel and Largest Bridge to be Completed this Year
- Turkmenistan and UAE Expand Cooperation in Oil and Gas
- U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tay Visits Uzbekistan
- Decolonial Futurism: A Focus on Kazakhstan’s Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale
- Eight Men from Tajikistan, Suspected of Terror Links, Face Deportation from U.S.
- EU and Kazakhstan Launch Coordination Platform of Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor
- Kazakhstan and Congo Ready to Cooperate in Oil and Gas
- U.S. Program Promotes Women Entrepreneurship in Turkmenistan
- New U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers Arrive in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan’s Reserves Reached $36.6 Billion in May.
- Turkmenistan President’s Visit Causes Havoc in Dashoguz
- Two Arrested Over Calls for Milk Riots in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkey Lifts Restrictions on Import of Livestock and Poultry Products from Kazakhstan
- UN Supports Uzbekistan and China’s Initiative on International Day of Dialogue Among Civilizations.
- Islamic Development Bank Supports Rogun HPP Project in Tajikistan
- By 2025, All of Kazakhstan Will Have Access to Clean Drinking Water
- Price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas to Rise Again in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan and IFC Sign Agreement on Two Solar Power Plant Projects
- Uzbekistan Plans to Earn $300 Million a Year From Medical Tourism
- Donor Coordination Committee Established for Kyrgyzstan’s Kambarata HPP-1 Project
- Reporter in Turkmenistan Freed After Four Years in Jail
- Elite Kyrgyz Climber Gets Warm Homecoming After Himalayan Ascents
- Story of a Statue: Turkmenistan Shapes National Identity
- VI ECG Film Festival Goes Beyond the Moving Image
- Is Afghanistan Ready for Dialogue with Central Asia on Water Issues?
- How the Trans-Caspian Corridor will Revitalize Trade between Asia and Europe.
- First NPP Reactor in Uzbekistan May Start Before 2033
- Child Malnutrition Hits Central Asia
- South Korea Set to Intensify Cooperation with Central Asia
- Residents of Turkmenistan Urged Not to Disseminate What’s Happening in the Country
- How Kazakhstan Is Cleansing Itself of Nursultan Nazarbayev’s Legacy
- Traders Rally in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan Poised for Large-Scale Locust Invasion
- Kyrgyzstan Seeks Investment in Energy
- Uzbekistan’s Soaring Air Transit Potential
- Rise in Grain Exports from Kazakhstan to China
- Russia’s Gazprom Secures Long-Term Natural Gas Supply to Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan’s Unexploited Potential of Deep Processing of Coal
- Kazakhstan’s Goodwill Ambassadors
- Human Rights Organization Demands Release of Tajik Journalist
- EDB Concept for Eurasian Transport Network
- Uzbekistan and Turkey Deepen Strategic Partnership
- China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan Railway
- Central Asian Public Opinion is the Latest Battle Front Between Putin and Zelenskiy
- Central Asia – EU Political and Security Cooperation
- Central Asia Asks: Are Afghanistan’s Taliban Government Terrorists?
- Turkmenistan to Ditch Forced Labor in Cotton Harvesting
- Kazakhstan’s President Tokayev Foresees a Bigger Role for Middle Powers in Solving the World’s Problems
- Peace for Women and Children Returning from Syria to Tajikistan
- Protecting Women and Children Helps Preserve, Not Contradict, Traditional Family Values in Kazakhstan
- International Development Association Allocates $25 million to Kyrgyz Universities.
- Uzbekistan-EU Trade Reaches 5.13 billion Euros
- Kazakhstan’s Constitution Now Published in Braille
- British Magazine Ranks Kazakhstan’s Katon-Karagay Top Travel Destination
- Kazakhstan-Russia Relations in Focus at St. Petersburg
- Kazakhstan Actions ‘Lifelong Learning’
- Kazakhstan Reports Another Big Jump in Saiga Antelope Numbers
- Heavy Chinese-Made Trucks Churning Up Kazakhstan’s Roads
- The Aral Sea: Addressing Water Issues, Crisis, and Striving for a Better Life in Central Asia
- Two Uzbek Universities Enter the QS World Rankings
- Erdogan: Turkmenistan Gas Exports to Turkey “Only a Matter of Time”
- Endangered Wild Horses Return to Kazakhstan’s Golden Steppe
- Turkmenistan Hosts European Exhibition on Energy-Saving
- Green Light for Hydrocarbon Development in Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea Sector
- Farms in Tajikistan Being Abandoned Due to Lack of Money
- S&P Keeps Uzbekistan’s Credit Rating as “Stable”
- Kazakhstan’s Al-Farabi Innovation Hub Boosts Start-Up Opportunities in Saudi Arabia
- World Bank to Support Kyrgyzstan’s Food Industry
- Kazakhstan Promotes Investment Opportunities in South Korea
- Foreign Investment in Central Asia is Following Demographic Trends
- French Cargo Airline Plans to Use Uzbekistan’s Navoi Airport
- Kazakhstan’s Bolashak Program: More Trouble Than It’s Worth?
- Nazarbayev In-Law, Askar Kulibayev’s Oil Terminal Seized
- Investigative Website Kloop to Remain Blocked in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan Lifts Ban on Mining of Uranium and Thorium
- UNICEF Donates Vehicles to Distribute Vaccines in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan Set to Maximize Tourism
- Turkmenistan Restricts Women From Obtaining Driving Licenses
- Uzbekistan and Turkey Enhance Strategic Partnership
- Water Levels of Kazakhstan’s Reservoirs Continue to Rise
- Chinese to Build Industrial Park and Bonded Warehouses in Kyrgyzstan
- International Association of Crypto-Economy and AI Created in Kyrgyzstan
- Copper Smelter To Be Built In Eastern Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan to Build the World’s Largest Greenhouse
- Uzbekistan Representative Elected to UN Human Rights Committee for First Time
- In Unequal Relationship, Trade Turnover Between Tajikistan and Russia Increases
- Renewable Energy “Key” for Uzbekistan: Interview with IFC Regional Manager
- Uzbekistan Park Managers Arrested for Mass Distribution of Toys
- Turkmenistan Residents Detained for Public Displays of Affection
- Kazakhstan Works with Armenia and Azerbaijan for South Caucasus Peace
- New Concept Announced for the Development of Oil Refining in Kazakhstan
- New Flights Launched between the Capitals of Qatar and Uzbekistan
- New International Terminal Opens at Almaty Airport
- U.S. Delivers Cutting-Edge Technology to Kyrgyzstan’s Renewable Energy Sector
- Construction of Gas Chemical Complex, Solar Plant and Airport begins in Bukhara
- Kazakhstan and United States Strategic Partnership
- Kyrgyzstan Plans to Export Electricity to Pakistan Next Year
- OSCE Representatives Arrive in Uzbekistan For Talks on Upcoming Elections
- Ten Years of the EAEU: Trade Wars Rumble On Against Backdrop of GDP Growth
- CASCA+ Transport Corridor Freight Transit
- Close Associate of Tajikistan’s Prime Minister Rasulzoda Detained on Suspicion of Large-Scale Fraud
- U.S. Support for Uzbekistan’s Pharmaceutical Industry
- Deutsche Bank Loans €165 Million to Uzbekistan’s Uzpromstroybank
- AIIB Forwards Construction of Strategic Bridge in Tajikistan
- Almaty Hosts Russia’s Defense Head Belousov in First of a Series of CSTO Events
- First Meeting of Central Asia – GCC Investment Forum
- Turkmen Student Takes Gold at Innovation Competition in London
- Mixed Reaction to Uzbekistan’s New Fruit Export Policy
- Foreign Ministries of Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan Discuss Safety Amid More Raids on Foreign Citizens
- Mining Output Grows in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan Changing Its Labor Laws to Better Reflect the Country’s Needs
- Chinese Company to Build Solar Power Plant in Uzbekistan’s Tashkent Region
- Turkmenistan Officials in Georgia to Prepare for WTO Application
- Uzbekistan Moving Closer Towards WTO Membership
- Justice Prevails in Kazakhstan Murder Trial Exposing Rift Between Government and Old Regime
- Rome Hosts Third Central Asia + Italy Ministerial Meeting
- Kazakhstan and EU Seek Increase in Trade of Agricultural Products
- Netherlands to Help Develop Kazakhstan’s Water Sector
- Nuclear Power in Uzbekistan Has a Political Aspect – Economist Behzod Hoshimov
- Ten Thousand Hectares of Land in Tajikistan Left Without Water
- Uzbekistan and Russia Discuss Rearmament of Republic’s Air Defense
- China and Central Asian Countries to Jointly Respond to Emergencies
- Largest Amusement Park in Central Asia to be Built in Uzbekistan
- The Fight Against Corruption Allowed Kyrgyzstan to Increase the State Budget
- A Welcome Expansion of Kazakhstan’s Invataxi Fleet
- Signs of Racism in Central Asia
- International Flights from Kazakhstan on the Rise
- Kazakhstan Motoring Towards to Fuel Self-Sufficiency
- Kazakhstan’s Reservoirs Brimming with 12 billion Cubic Meters of Water
- The Geography of Labor: Where Do Central Asian Migrants Travel To?
- World Economic Forum Names Kazakhstan Best Tourism Destination in Central Asia
- Dushanbe: Water for Sustainable Development
- One-Stop Service Center for Victims of Violence Opens in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan to Increase Production of High Added-Value Products
- Gasoline Smuggling a Growing Business in Kyrgyzstan
- World Bank to Help Uzbekistan Improve Social Protection
- Kazakhstan and the Netherlands to Further Bilateral Cooperation
- Police Officers in Bishkek Fired Over Mob Conflict with Foreign Students
- Tajikistan and Russia Discuss Labor Migration, Security
- Middle Powers Converge: Kazakhstan and Singapore Strengthen Bilateral Ties
- World Bank Helps Kyrgyzstan To Restore Its Natural Landscape
- Three Kazakh Officials Suspected of Taking Large Bribes
- Almaty Hosts Conference on Tackling Climate Change in Central Asia
- Kazakhstan’s Nomadiq Innovation Hub Opens in Singapore
- Uzbekistan to Build a Nuclear Power Plant
- Korean Company to Build Solar Panel Production Plant in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan Wants to Use AI in Drafting Laws
- Poland and Russia Ensure Continued Transit of Kazakh Oil to Germany
- Rahmon Orders Map of Environmental Hazards
- Uzbekistan to Establish Atomic Energy Agency
- Uzbekistan Interested in Afghan Oil and Gas
- Authorities in Turkmenistan Using Cab Drivers As Informants to Identify “Unreliable” Citizens
- First Uzbek to Receive Doctoral Degree from Harvard Business School
- Kyrgyzstan Proposes To Fine People For Speaking Substandard Kyrgyz
- Central Asia-EU Conference Focuses on Security Issues
- Kazakhstani Movies No Longer Playing Just a Supporting Role
- The Middle Corridor is Being Funded Faster than Expected
- Test Run of Trans-Caspian Route from China to Europe via Kazakhstan
- Why Have Women’s Carriages Become So Popular in Kazakhstan?
- World Bank Helps Improve Social Services for Vulnerable People in Uzbekistan
- US Donates 12,000 English-Language Books to Schools and Libraries in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyz Banks Urged to Unite and Create Single ATM Network
- The Power of Kindness: Psychologist Kamilla Turakhodjaeva Promotes the Value of Volunteering in Tashkent
- Tajikistan Doubles Down on Fines for Wearing “Foreign Clothes”
- Turkmen Gas to Europe Mooted Again
- Uzbekistan to Increase Production and Export of Medicines
- Kazakhstan and China to Cooperate on Innovative Technology
- Kazakhstan and South Korea to Strengthen Economic Cooperation
- Kazakhstan and Singapore Join Forces to Boost Economy and Transport
- Kazakh PM Meets With German Rhenus Group to Discuss Middle Corridor
- Another Uzbek Citizen Convicted of Insulting Mirziyoyev
- Central Asia’s Combined ‘Army of Turan’: Could a Hypothesis Become a Reality?
- U.S., Uzbekistan Discuss Judicial Reforms and Combating Corruption
- Kyrgyz Pharmacists Speak Against Abolition of Tax Exemptions
- Construction of First IT Town in Uzbekistan Begins
- Despite Negative Outlook, Moody’s Upgrades Kyrgyzstan’s Credit Rating
- Focus on Ethnic Germans in Kazakhstan
- Alatau IT Hub Opens in Kazakhstan’s Almaty Region
- Amid Russian Sanctions, Kazakhstan Can Benefit From Shanghai Cooperation Organization
- Only Turkmen Graduates Allowed to Participate in “Last Call”
- Green Light for Uzgen Bypass, South Kyrgyzstan
- Tajik Schoolchildren to Be Taught English From Third Grade
- Kyrgyzstan President Announces New Social Welfare Measures
- Bishkek Thermal Plant Set For Upgrade With Eurasian Development Bank Funds
- Turkmen Scientists Find Way to Make Depleted Gas Wells More Productive
- U.S. and Kazakhstan Discuss Shared Values at High-Level Dialogue on Human Rights and Democratic Reforms
- What Does Raisi’s Death Mean for the Caspian Sea Region?
- Higher Education in Central Asia: Leaders and Outsiders
- Eurasian Development Bank To Finance Another Solar Plant in Kyrgyzstan
- The Outlook for Kazakhstan’s Rail Network
- Airport Opens in Talas, Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan to Build Central Asia’s First Solar Plant with Battery Energy Storage System
- Turkic Investment Fund Opens Operation
- One Dead and Six Missing in Turkmenistan Mudslides
- Kazakhstan Aims to Increase Non-Resource Exports
- NGOs in Kyrgyzstan Have Two Months to Register as “Foreign Agents”
- Arrest Made in Connection with Bishkek Unrest
- Uzbekistan’s Banks Double Their Capital in Five Years
- Kyrgyzstan’s President Warns of Swift Crackdown If Unrest Flares Again
- More Irrigation Water Pledged for Southern Kazakhstan
- Prospective Kazakh Citizens Must Know Country’s Language and History
- Kazakhstan Increases Cargo Transshipment through Caspian Seaports along TITR
- Construction of HPP in Talas region of Kyrgyzstan Allocated $32.6 Million
- Japanese Company to Develop Urban Master Plan for Bishkek
- Ruins of a Sixth-Century Castle Discovered in Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan Bans People From Talking About the Weather
- A Demographic Phenomenon in Kazakhstan — the Population is Rapidly Getting Younger
- Central Asian Views on Pro-Palestinian Protests in the West
- Lost Identities: Tackling Statelessness in Central Asia
- Why Have Cases of Abduction of Women for Marriage Not Decreased in Kazakhstan?
- Central Asia’s “C5” Security Bloc Can Become a Reality
- Kazakhstan Joins UN Crime Prevention Commission for First Time
- Floods in Kazakhstan: Affected Citizens Make Demands to the Authorities
- Educating Uzbekistan: QR Codes, Quizzes and Some Critical Thought
- High Gold Prices Keep the Uzbek Economy Afloat
- An Uneasy Calm After Unrest in Bishkek
- Electronic Information Exchange Systems to Be Introduced in Turkmenistan’s Agencies
- Villagers in Tajikistan Building a Hospital With Their Own Funds
- Agreement on Classified Military Information Signed between Uzbekistan and U.S.
- Kazakhstan Looks to Israel’s Innovative Water Technologies
- Kyrgyzstan and China Aim to Increase Trade
- Sixth Eurasia Creative Guild Film Festival to be Held in the U.K.
- EU and Partner Banks Upgrade Water Supply in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan and Malaysia Investment Roundtable
- Tension Spills Into Streets of Bishkek After Fight Involving Foreigners
- Bishkek Bets on Bikes and Buses
- IMF Positive on Uzbekistan’s Progress
- EBRD: Uzbekistan’s Economy Shows Stable Growth
- Medical Universities of Kazakhstan, Tatarstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan Synchronize Study Programs
- French ELLE to be published in Uzbekistan
- Men in Kazakhstan Paid Almost One-Third More than Women
- Real Estate Worth $8 Million Found in Dubai Belonging to Son of Ex-Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan
- UN Special Rapporteurs Denounce Repressions of Independent Media in Kyrgyzstan
- “I Hope Saltanat’s Family Can Find Peace” – Women of Kazakhstan Speak Out on Bishimbayev’s Sentence
- Kazakhstan and Malaysia Set to Expand Cooperation
- Russian Online Retailer Wildberries to Build Logistics Center in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbek Politician Decries Dominance of Russian Language in Country
- First Kazakh Woman Reaches the Summit of Everest
- UNDP and British Embassy to Help Increase the Capacity of Turkmenistan’s Boards of Lawyers
- Kazakhstan’s President Commends Growing Cooperation Between Central Asian States
- Kyrgyz Sugar Farmers Being Ruined By Imports
- Kyrgyzstan and Malaysia to Revive Bilateral Cooperation
- Liberalizing Kazakhstan’s Economy Must Not Become Uncontrolled Privatization, Expert Warns
- Coca-Cola Opens New Production Plant in Uzbekistan
- New Program Lets Kyrgyz Students Study For Diplomas in Germany
- Kazakhstan Still Repatriating Its Citizens From War Zones
- Nationwide Survey on Domestic Violence in Kazakhstan Publishes Results
- Turkmen Gas To Be Supplied To Turkey Via Azerbaijan And Georgia
- Kyrgyzstan To Receive Customs Duties In The Eurasian Economic Union in Russian Rubles
- Kazakhstan Becomes First CIS country to Join ICAO Program on Environmentally-Friendly Aviation Fuel
- Kazakhstan and Vietnam Look to Expand Economic Cooperation
- Uzbekistan to Launch New International Bus Routes
- Major Mineral Fertilizer Production Plant Planned for Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan To Reconnect To Central Asia’s Unified Energy System
- IFC to Support Central Asian Tech Startups With New Fund
- EU’s Central Asia Representative Reaffirms the Union’s Commitment to the Region
- UNDP Launches Project in Turkmenistan to Help Women and Young People Find Jobs
- Turkmenistan Plans to Create Powerful Bio-industry Sector
- Kyrgyz Writer Oljobai Shakir Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
- Large-Scale Cyberattacks on Kazakhstan Continue
- Kazakhstan Launches Battle against Counterfeit Medicines
- Kazakhstan Secures Almost Billion Cubic Meters of Irrigation Water from Uzbekistan
- Launch of Flights Between Almaty and Nukus
- Uzbekistan Set to Increase Coal Production
- Uzbekistan to Create IT Towns Across its Regions
- Up to 300,000 Uzbeks Labor Migrants Expected to Return Home
- U.S. Authorities Asked to Sanction Violators of Religious Freedoms in Tajikistan
- The 2024 UN Asian Women’s Forum Begins in Samarkand
- Kyrgyz Farmers Given Ultrasonic Sensors to Monitor Water Consumption
- Uzbekistan Ranked Fifth for Number of Students Studying Abroad
- Kuandyk Bishimbayev Given 24 Years in Prison — But Kazakhs Ask How Long He Will Really Serve
- Prosecutor General’s Office of Tajikistan and U.S. State Department Sign Memorandum of Cooperation
- A Steep Rise in Popularity of Women-Only Carriages on Kazakhstan’s Trains
- Kuandyk Bishimbayev Sentenced to 24 Years for the Murder of Saltanat Nukenova
- Turkish Company to Manufacture Irrigation Equipment in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan To Work With Hungary on Nuclear Projects
- Kyrgyz Banks Try to “Warm Up” Economy With Interest Rate Cut
- Cleaning up the Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund
- Learning English: A Growing Trend in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan to Develop Additive Technologies Industry
- Turkish Company to Manufacture Irrigation Systems in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Boost Transport Cooperation
- Saudi Al Faris International Proposes to Open Schools in Uzbekistan
- Bishimbayev: Kazakhstan Awaits Verdict in Pivotal Murder Case
- Healing Properties of Uzbekistan’s Chashma Spring Draw Curious Tourists
- Buildings “Full of Tattoos:” Tashkent Mosaics, Newly Protected, Tell of a City’s Rebirth
- New Measures to Boost Agriculture in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan and Netherlands Cooperate in Agriculture and Healthcare
- Case Documents for 11 Temirov Live Journalists Submitted to Court in Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan Abolishes Electricity Rationing
- Son-in-Law of Former Kazakh President Nazarbayev Sells His London Mansion
- Kyrgyzstan’s New 5,000 Som Banknotes Enter Circulation
- UNDP Supports Export Promotion Center in Kyrgyzstan
- EU to Allocate €600,000 to Uzbekistan for Green Budgeting
- Reporters Without Borders Downgrades State Of Press Freedom in Uzbekistan To “Very Serious”
- Campaign to Restore Kyrgyzstan’s Forests
- USAID to Host 13th Central Asia Trade Forum in Kazakhstan
- Uzbek Citizens Warned of New Entry Rules to Kazakhstan
- Kazakh Pensioner Takes A Trip To Paris — On His Bicycle
- “This Disaster Has Shown We Are All United”: An Interview with Zakirzhan Kharisovich, Deputy of Petropavlovsk, about the Kazakh Floods
- Favorable Water Volumes Forecast for Uzbekistan’s Amu Darya and Syr Darya Rivers
- Victory Day Comes in Central Asian Countries Without Much Pomp, but Plenty of Feeling
- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan Favor EEU Economic Integration
- Central Asian Leaders Gather in Moscow for Economic Meeting, WWII Anniversary
- Uzbekistan and the EU Celebrate 30 Years of Mutually Beneficial Cooperation
- Kazakhstan Set to Reimburse Businesses for Equipment Costs
- Dushanbe Conference to Discuss New Mass Media Law
- Uzbek Businesswoman Diora Usmanova Recounts Own History of Marital Violence
- Central Asian Countries Allocate Various Sums to WWII Veterans
- Uzbekistan and Hungary Expand Economic Cooperation
- Why Kazakhstan’s Deepening Ties With Afghanistan Are Significant
- Tajikistan Warns Its Citizens to Be Ready for Additional Checks at Kazakhstan’s Airports
- Central Asia as an Emerging Economic Region
- American Travels to Kazakhstan to Seek Information on Father’s Fate in 1940s
- Uzbekistan’s Supreme Court Vacates Convictions of 198 Victims of Stalinist Repressions
- New UN Program to Help Kyrgyz Apiaries Develop Export of Honey
- Central Asian Entrepreneurs in Russia Shutting Down Hospitality Businesses Due to Xenophobia, Police Inspections
- Kumtor Gold Boosts Kyrgyzstan Economy
- Kazakh Embassy Counselor in UAE Recalled After Domestic Violence Allegations
- Campaign to Save Bishkek’s Trolleybuses
- Bishimbayev Trial: Will the “Show” Shift Reality?
- Kazakhstan Suspends Sugar Exports Until August
- Kyrgyzstan to Create New Village for Citizens Resettled from the Barak Exclave
- Kazakhstan to Host Armenia-Azerbaijan Talks on May 10
- Time Spent by Tajikistan Citizens Sleeping, Eating and Working
- Citizens of Kazakhstan Aren’t Being Detained at Borders with Russia, Ministry Claims
- Kazakhstan offers to host platform for Russia-Ukraine negotiations
- Saudi and Emirati Companies to Build Two Wind Farms in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan Forwards Water-Saving Technology
- Citizens of Turkmenistan Being Prevented From Flying Abroad
- Joint Portfolio of Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia Projects Exceeds $30 Billion
- Kazakh Billionaire Lomtadze Buys Majority Stake in English Soccer Club
- Ex-Minister Bishimbayev Delivers Last Words in Court Amid Murder Case
- Kazakhstan Proposes Life Imprisonment for Drug Traffickers
- Victory Day Payments for WWII Veterans in Former Soviet Republics
- Kazakhstan Establishes Forest Protection Service
- Celebrating Russian Orthodox Easter in Central Asia: A Fusion of Traditions and Cultures
- Outcome of First Turkmenistan- UN Strategic Advisory Council Meeting
- Chinese Сompanies’ Generous Aid for People Hit by Kazakhstan’s Floods
- Is the China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan Railway Project Losing Steam Again?
- Turkmenistan’s Public Sector Employees Pay Up to Care for Mulberry Silkworms, Cotton Fields
- First Kazakh Kindergarten Has Opened in California’s Silicon Valley
- Turkmenistan Ousts Uzbekistan from Tajikistan’s Market for Greenhouse Tomatoes
- Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan to Unite Their National Card Payment Systems
- Tajikistan Faces Acute Shortage of Human Capital in Field of Land Reclamation and Irrigation
- Uzbekistan’s Schoolchildren to Sit International PISA Tests
- EBRD Launches New Training Program for Female Entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan
- Transshipment of Russian Oil Through Kazakhstan to China to Become More Expensive
- Kyrgyz Authorities Believe Negligence Caused Truck to Hit Students
- Kyrgyzstan Again Tells Citizens: For Now, Don’t Go to Russia
- USAID Funds Improved Water Management in Turkmenistan
- EBRD Funds Upgrade of Major Highway in Uzbekistan
- South Korean Сompanies to Modernize Kazakhstan’s Power Plants
- Tashkent Investment Forum Focus on Kyrgyzstan’s Kambarata HPP-1
- Satellite Internet Connection to Start Working in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan: Truck Hits Students Performing at Event, Injuring 29
- New Case Against Nazarbayev’s Former Niece-in-Law Brought to Court
- Uzbekistan’s President Guarantees Protection of Foreign Investors’ Rights
- OPEC Fund to Allocate $500 Million for Tourism, Logistics Development in Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan May Swap Territories to Ease Border Tensions
- EU and FAO Aid Uzbekistan’s Management of Hazardous Chemicals
- Kazakhstan, Russia and China Create New Transport Hub
- Strapped For Cash: Officials in Turkmenistan Have to Buy Watches With the Berdymukhamedovs’ Faces on Them
- Digitalization Eases Cargo Processing on the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route
- Central Asia Has a Problem, and It Is Russia
- Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to Export Green Power to Europe
- Kazakhstan Says It’s Ready to Host Azerbaijan-Armenia Talks; No Date Announced
- Czech Authorities Suspend Investigation of 2014 Explosions; One Suspect Allegedly Posed as a Tajik Citizen
- Kazakhstan Engages Hydrogeology to Address Water Issues
- Uzbekistan Raises Its Poverty Line Due to Increases in Gas, Electricity Prices
- American Company Launches CO2 Production in Uzbekistan
- Divisive Forces Prompt Tokayev’s “National Unity” Message
- Uzbekistan Opens New Museum Commemorating WW2 Japanese POWs
- ADB Allocates $56 Million for Sewage Treatment Plant to Protect Issyk-Kul
- Visit by UK’s Cameron Doesn’t Oblige Central Asian Countries to Do Anything, Expert Says
- What Will Uzbekistan’s Role in Central Asia’s Connectivity Be?
- Uzbekistan and EU to Increase Extraction of Rare Earths, Critical Metals
- National Bank of Kyrgyzstan Slashes Its Key Lending Rate, Explains Move Amid Weaker Inflation
- Lavrov Calls Tajik Counterpart to Smooth Over Cracks
- Kazakhstan and Tajikistan Plan to Double Trade to $2 Billion
- Uzbekistan Signs More Export Contracts With Afghanistan
- Over 100,000 People with Disabilities Employed in Kazakhstan
- First-Time Graduates of U.S. Program for English and Professional Skills in Central Asia
- Wages in Uzbekistan Continue to Rise in Early 2024
- Kyrgyz Authorities Ask Moscow to Improve Situation for Labor Migrants
- EBRD Helps Improve Dushanbe’s Environment and Support Tajikistan’s Banking Sector
- Uzbekistan’s Trade Volume Shows Healthy Growth
- Operator of France’s Courchevel Ski Resort to Build Slopes in Kyrgyzstan
- U.K. Plans to Open an Investment Fund in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan Charges Former Minister Yerlan Turgumbayev With Abuse of Power
- Kyrgyz Authorities Promise Not to Persecute Human Rights Advocates Using Foreign Agent Law
- Military in Kazakhstan Head Back to Bases After Working to Contain Floods
- Twenty New Reservoirs for Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan Earns Removal From U.S. Intellectual Property Rights Blacklist
- Kyrgyzstan Looks to Azerbaijan to Replace Russian Fuel
- Uzbekistan Will Allow Gambling From Next Year
- Tajik Nationals Held in Moscow Airports as Russia Tightens Border Controls
- Turkmenistan’s Gas and Türkiye’s Plans to Become a Gas Hub
- EU Gives Uzbekistan’s Agriculture Another Boost
- Uzbekistan Moves to Speed Up Privatization of State Property
- Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan to Cooperate in Freight Transit
- Kazakhstan’s Production of Gas Set to Soar
- U.S. to Restrict Firearms Exports to Central Asian Countries
- Doing Deals: At Paris Forum, Turkmenistan Makes a Pitch to the West
- A View from the Rally in Prague in Support of Saltanat Nukenova
- Kazakhstan Postpones Games of the Future
- US Embassy Boosts Preservation of Tajikistan’s Ancient City
- Turkmenistan’s Policy of Suppressing Public Criticism, Dissent Continues, Says Amnesty
- Uzbekistan’s Migrant Laborers Remittances From Russia in Sharp Decline
- Without Security, There Can Be No Development in Afghanistan
- Kyrgyz Farmers Urged to Supply Agricultural Products to China
- President Rahmon Meets with Pope Francis
- 300 Children Killed on Kyrgyzstan’s Roads
- British Companies Enter Commercial Agreements with Kazakhstan
- Starlink Broadband Reaches More Schools in Kazakhstan
- The Art of Words: Writer Andrei Orlov Discusses the Development of Kazakhstan’s Literary Industry
- Kazakhstan Welcomes Turkish Investors
- Kazakhstan and the Taliban Discuss Transport Links
- Russian Comments Put Kazakhstan’s Oil Transit to Germany Under Threat
- Azerbaijan and Armenia to Hold Talks in Kazakhstan
- Samarkand to Host Asian Women’s Forum Next Month
- Uzbekistan’s First Quarter 2024 Gold Exports Rise to $2.66 Billion
- Group of Central Asians Charged in Germany on Terrorism Offenses
- Central Asians Not Bananas About Bananas
- Starlink Close to Providing Internet Access in Remote Parts of Kyrgyzstan
- Kuandyk Bishimbayev Pleads Guilty to Negligent Homicide
- Britain’s Cameron Signs Strategic Partnership Agreement in Astana
- Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan Expand Economic and Transport Cooperation
- Uzbekistan and Afghanistan Shore Up Places in Eurasian Transit Corridor
- Kazakhstan Likely To Insist on Revisions to Kashagan Oil Contracts
- Germany Increases Investment and Trade in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan Repurposing Floodwater
- Kyrgyz Servicemen Will Be Allowed to Buy Their Military Housing
- Kyrgyz Football Gets Boost as Construction Starts on New Stadium
- AI Takes Hold in Kazakhstan’s Finance Industry
- Rosatom Set to Build Small Nuclear Power Plants in Uzbekistan
- Growth of Non-Custodial Sentences in the Kyrgyz Republic Since 2020
- Kazakhstan Encourages Ethnic Kazakhs to Return to Historical Homeland
- Chinese Entrepreneurs to Help Address Environmental Issues in Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan and Italy Engage in Dialogue to Enhance Collaboration
- Kazakhstan Plans To Stop Bloggers From Promoting Gambling
- U.K. Company to Manufacture Innovative Material to Improve Irrigation in Kyrgyzstan
- Mudslides in Kyrgyzstan Flood Over 200 Homes
- U.S. Government Discusses Data From Air Quality Monitor at Tashkent Embassy
- EU Provides Humanitarian Aid to Victims of Kazakhstan Floods
- Kyrgyzstan and U.S. Review Political, Security and Economic Cooperation
- China Remains Uzbekistan’s Top Trade Partner
- Britain’s Cameron to Central Asia: Work with Us
- Turkmen Dissidents Mark Anniversary of Deadly Storm With Government Protest
- Disinformation Targets Kazakhstan’s Ties with China, Russia, and the U.S.
- A Third Of Kazakhstan’s Flood-Protection Structures Are Damaged
- Kazakhstan Has Become Main Trade Partner of China’s Xinjiang Province
- Kyrgyzstan’s Law on NGOs: What Alarms Human Rights Activists?
- Uzbekistan Seeks to Expand Trade Horizons with Europe
- Uzbekistan to Open Centres for Workers Seeking Employment Abroad
- Central Asian Countries Set 2024 Quotas for Amu Darya, Syr Darya River Water Usage
- USAID for Cold Storage Facility in South Kyrgyzstan
- US Helps Train 18,000 English Teachers in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan Makes Inroads into Silicon Valley
- World Bank Helps Uzbekistan With Digital Inclusion Project
- Uzbek Refineries Abandoning Kazakh Oil in Favor of Cheaper Russian Crude
- Funds from Kazakhstan’s National Fund to be Invested in New Format
- Uzbekistan Sends Humanitarian Aid to Kazakhs Affected by Floods
- Kyrgyzstan Completes Resettlement of Residents From Exclave in Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan’s Government Employees Should Know President’s Biography in Order to Pass Certification
- Tennis World No. 4 Rybakina Wins Third Tournament of Year in Stuttgart
- Kyrgyzstan’s Special Services Take On The Drug Mafia
- Kazakhstan: Floods Still a Threat, but Some Residents Returning Home as Waters Ebb
- Kazakhstan Imported 500 Million Cubic Meters of Russian Gas in First Quarter 2024
- Kyrgyz Authorities Seeking Monopoly on Insurance, Industry Group Says
- EU Supports Uzbekistan’s Anti-Corruption Efforts
- German Company to Manufacture Ultralight Aircraft in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan Debates Foreign Media Accreditation
- TikTok Users Struggle to Access App after Kyrgyzstan Announces Restrictions
- Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Enhance Allied Relations
- Kazakh, Chinese and Russian Companies Unite on Polyethylene Production Plant
- The Taliban and its Neighbors: An Outsider’s Perspective
- Chinese Investors Plan to Build Solar Power Plant in Tashkent Region
- Poor-Quality Gasoline Refused by Taliban Doesn’t Belong to Uzbekistan
- Port of Turkmenbashi Begins Cargo Transport With Russian Port of Olya
- Traffickers of Human Organs Detained in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan To Increase Number of Female Police Officers
- Kazakh News Publisher Says New Media Law Does Little for National Press
- Development of Kazakhstan’s Cinematography: An Inside Look – An Interview with Kazakh Actor, Abay Kazbayev, on Kazakhstan’s Film Industry and its Prospects for Development
- Carlsberg Expands Production in Kazakhstan
- U.S. Helps Decrease Tuberculosis Mortality Rates in Kyrgyzstan
- USAID Launches $18 Million Program to Boost Economic Growth in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan Seeks EU Assistance in Sustainable Water Management
- Central Asia’s Scorecard on Women’s Rights and Welfare
- Tajikistan and Uzbekistan Sign Allied Relations Treaty
- Google to Help Transform Kyrgyzstan’s School Education System
- Low-Income Kyrgyz Citizens Offered Financial Literacy Training
- Authorities Find Secret Tunnel Connecting Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan Increases Amount of Claim Against Western Oil Companies to $150 Billion
- Innovating in Uzbekistan: Council Aims to Nurture Young Scientists
- Uzbekistan Planning to Abandon State Regulation of Coal Prices
- Tajikistan Takes Steps to Punish Sorcerers and Fortune-Tellers
- CSTO Says It’s Satisfied With Negotiations on Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Demarcation
- Air Travel Between Tajikistan and Russia Rebounding After Terrorist Attack
- Kazakh Military to Receive Transport Plane From Airbus
- Market Capitalization of the Kyrgyz Stock Exchange Reaches Record Level
- Turkmenistan Opens New Section of Strategic Highway
- Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Sign Commercial Deals Worth $300 Million
- Uzbekistan’s Population Rises to Almost 37 Million
- Russia to Aid Construction of Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plants in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan to Raise Energy Prices for First Time in Five Years
- Tajik Citizens Now Banned From Entering Georgia
- Seismologists From Japan to Study Earthquakes in Almaty
- No Lessons Being Learned From Kazakh Floods, Says Political Analyst
- Islamic State – Khorasan Province: An Element of Geopolitical Rivalry?
- Uzbekistan Considers Hosting Relocated Ukrainian Enterprises
- Uzbek Military Receives NATO Training
- Kazakhstan Seeks Investment from South Korea
- Challenges Facing Uzbekistan’s Textile Industry
- IMF Forecasts 2.3% Growth in Turkmenistan’s Economy
- Kyrgyz Climber in Nepal Sets Sights on Three of the World’s Highest Peaks
- Migrant Laborers in Russia Deprived of Free Medical Care
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- Turkmenistan’s GDP Expands by 6.3% in First Quarter of 2024
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- Electricity Prices in Kazakhstan Rise by 26% Over Year
- Turkey Cancels Visa-Free Regime for Citizens of Tajikistan
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- Qazaq Culture Portal Launched in Kazakhstan
- EU and Uzbekistan Establish Strategic Partnership on Critical Raw Materials
- Sell-Out of U.K. Tours to World Nomad Games in Kazakhstan
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- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Enhance Strategic Partnership
- Scientists in Kyrgyzstan Predicting More Earthquakes
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- Uzbeks, Tajiks Expelled from Chechnya; Turkey Releases Uzbek Suspect
- Transport Diversification Allows Resumption of Kazakh Oil Product Exports to Europe
- Central Asia and Turkey Serving as Way-Points for Russia’s Explosives Imports
- Authorities in Central Asia Warn Against Terrorist Recruitment
- Saiga Antelope Revival Pleases Kazakh Naturalists — And Leonardo DiCaprio
- The Priority of Maintaining a United and Stable Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan Working on Economic Reforms, Wants U.S. to Get More Involved
- Central Asia Counts the Cost of Drug Trafficking
- Turkmenistan Poised to Supply Energy Resources to Tajikistan
- UK Concrete Canvas Ltd. Set to Solve Kazakhstan’s Irrigation Issues
- In Fear of Sanctions, Kyrgyz Banks Shun Russian Cards
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- Uzbekistan and Pakistan Strengthen Ties in Trade, Transportation
- EU Project Grants to Empower Civil Society in Uzbekistan
- Tungsten Production in Almaty
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- Video of Beating of Saltanat Nukenova on the Day of Her Death Presented in Court
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- South Korea Stops Importing Kazakh Oil Over Red Sea Ship Attacks
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- Uzbekistan Offers More Help to Its Citizens Moving Abroad
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- Travelers to Turkmenistan Still Forced to Pay for COVID-19 Test
- Will Europe Learn Lessons From Central Asian Gas Failures to Secure Oil Imports Bypassing Russia?
- Uzbekistan to Support Migrant Workers
- Kazakhstan-Korea Drone Roadshow in Astana
- New Somon Air Flights from Dushanbe to Astana
- Uzbekistan’s Banks Top List of Country’s Most Valuable Brands
- Kyrgyzstan and China’s Xinjiang Expand Economic Cooperation
- Kazakhstan Adjusts Migration Rules to Attract Foreign Specialists
- Islamic State Attack in Turkey Foiled; Tajik, Kyrgyz Citizens Arrested
- Uzbekistan to Participate in International TALIS Study for First Time in 2024
- Bishkek Tightens Grip on NGOs
- Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to Unite Against External Military Threat
- Renewables Generated Almost 6% of Kazakhstan’s Electricity in 2023
- Kazakhstan Poised to Battle Bombardment of Locusts
- Uzbek Reforms Already Being Felt in Agriculture
- Turkmenistan’s Balkan Shipyard to Partner with Dutch Company
- Experts Warn Kazakhstan Over Possible Consequences of Further Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
- Uzbekistan, EU Team Up to Train Local Ecology Specialists Amid Central Asia’s Water Crisis
- Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Economy Proposes Canceling 21% of Taxes
- Kyrgyz Fuel Rules Set to Raise Prices Amid Fight With Black Market
- President of Turkmenistan Pardons 356 Prisoners
- The Middle Corridor: How Kazakhstan is Carving its Niche in Europe-Asia Transport
- Kazakh Tennis: Foreign-Born Talent and Grassroots Programs
- Tashkent Announces First Car-free Day
- Launch of Central Asia–China Secretariat
- Kazakhstan Floods: Rescuers Lend Helping Hand to Camels
- Uzbekistan to Plant 125 Million Trees
- Kazakhstan and China Strengthen Strategic Partnership
- Uzbekistan’s Gold Mining Aims to Replace Labour Migration
- Railway or Another Way: Transportation Dilemma for China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan’s Eastern Dry Port to Get New Airport With German Cooperation
- Construction of Waste Processing Plant Launched in Bishkek
- Year of Kazakhstan Tourism in China
- Kazakhstan to Earn $1.7 Billion from Russian Oil Transit to China
- Car Seat Factory under Construction in Almaty
- Uzbek-born Billionaire Alisher Usmanov Takes On German Prosecutor
- Major Storms Cause Injuries and Disruption Across Swathes of Central Asia
- Tajikistan’s Rahmon Wants Government Staff to Speak Three Languages
- Central Asia’s Hospitality Market Showing Significant Growth
- Trial of Former Minister Bishimbayev Charged with Murdering Wife Begins
- Tokayev Celebrates Kazakh-Chinese Economic Ties at Boao Forum
- Turkmenistan to Host Another Exhibition of Afghan Goods
- Kyrgyzstan Assassination Plot: Suspected Crime Boss Raimbek Matraimov Held in Pretrial Detention
- Kyrgyz Surgeons Performed Unique Heart Surgery in One Minute
- Uzbek Cultural Agency Seeks to Prevent Damage to Archaeological Relics
- Kazakh-Italian Project to Install New Hybrid Power Plant in Zhanaozen
- Kazakhstan to Start Producing Cars for Chinese Brand KAIYI
- Kyrgyzstan to Switch to 12-Year School System
- Kazakhstan Wants to Import Gas, Electricity From Turkmenistan
- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: the EU’s Indecisive Strategy Towards Eurasia
- Former Kyrgyz Official Matraimov Extradited in Connection with Assassination Plot
- China Mining Energy Group to Partner in Uzbek Copper Project
- Kyrgyzstan Takes Issue With Uzbekistan’s Hydropower Plans
- Man with Kyrgyzstan Links Among Suspects in Moscow Attack
- Uzum Deal Makes It Uzbekistan’s First Tech ‘Unicorn’
- Production Decrease and Import Increase in Energy Resources in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan’s First Tire Recycling Plant to Produce Crumb Rubber for Sports Grounds
- Russia’s Rosatom to Build Wind Farm, Nuclear Plant in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry Lists Oil Reserves, Export Metrics
- Turkmenistan’s Government-Supplied Agricultural Services Soar in Cost
- Kyrgyz National Bank, Other Agencies Can Resume Sanctions-Related Inspections
- Canada Joins List of Developed Countries Seeking Uzbek Migrant Labor
- Ancient Turkmen City of Anau Declared Cultural Capital of the Turkic World 2024
- Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Ministry Urges Its Citizens to Temporarily Refrain From Traveling to Russia
- Tajik Migrants Facing Xenophobia in Russia After Moscow Terrorist Attack
- Russian Atomic Energy Company to Build Renewable Energy Facilities in Kyrgyzstan
- EU Supports Renovation of Agricultural College in Bukhara
- Tashkent to Establish Yangi Avod Industrial Zone
- Uzbekistan To Open Three New Power Projects in Namangan
- Central Asians Barred From Flying to South America From Turkey
- Uzbekistan Launches Construction of New Power Plants
- Demolitions in Bukhara Continue Despite UNESCO Demands for a Halt
- Assassination Plan by Criminal Group on Kyrgyz Leaders
- EBRD Adds Kazakh Companies to Blacklist
- Kazakhstan’s SMEs Borrowed Almost U$17 Billion from Banks
- Uzbekistan’s IT Sector Sets Sights on United States
- Extremists See Some Central Asian Communities as Fertile Recruiting Ground
- Container Trains from China to Europe through Kazakhstan reaches 80%
- Kyrgyz Teenager Saved Lives During Moscow Terror Attack
- Rise in Kazatomprom’s Revenue Amid Nuclear Ramp-Up
- Kazakhstan Replaces Russia As Destination For Uzbek Migrants
- Death Toll Rises to 137, as Russia Continues With Ukraine Narrative
- UN Adopts Turkmenistan’s Peace Resolution at General Assembly
- Automatic Air Pollution Monitoring Stations Installed Across Uzbekistan
- American Cowboys to Compete in 5th World Nomad Games in Kazakhstan
- Kazakh Peacekeepers to be Sent to the Golan Heights
- Soyuz Launch Successful
- Tajikistan Warns Against “Unverified” Reports About Moscow Attack
- Russia Detains Suspects with Tajik Passports – Death Toll Rises to 133
- Central Asian States Respond to Moscow Attacks
- Kyrgyzstan to Start Producing Chevrolet, Isuzu Cars This Year
- EU Looks to Help Uzbekistan Develop Vocational Education
- Kazakhstan Ranked Among 50 Happiest Countries in the World
- Kazakh Musicians Turn to Old Instruments to Make New Music
- Kazakhstanis Keeping Less Foreign Currency, Buying More Gold
- Kazakhstan Refuses to Ban Kyrgyz-Licensed Products Despite Threat
- German Company to Make Cosmetics From Kazakh Mare’s Milk
- Kazakhstan Admits There Are Three Russian Military Test Sites On Its Territory
- Soyuz Launch Scheduled for Saturday 23rd March
- Nazarbayev’s Nephew Samat Abish Handed Eight-Year Suspended Sentence
- Huge Increase in Gas Supplies to Uzbekistan Sparks Debate Over Russian Influence
- Turkmenistan and Italy Expand Transport Cooperation
- Kazakhstan and Qatar to Implement Projects Worth $17.6 Billion
- Kyrgyz Parliament Developing a Russian-Kyrgyz Legislative Dictionary
- Kazakhstan Sells More Sunflower Oil to Afghanistan; Imports More Matches and Jade
- Kazakhs Owe Almost Quarter Million Dollars in Alimony and Child Support
- Kazakhstan’s Public Debt Falls Below $60 Billion
- Dushanbe, Tashkent Are Worst Central Asian Cities for Air Quality
- Tajikistan Intensifies Efforts to Train Locals for Work Abroad
- FAO to Improve Soil Health In Uzbekistan
- Launch of a Clinker Line for Kyrgyzstan’s Largest Cement Plant
- AIIB Allocates $670 Million for Uzbekistan’s Economic Transition
- Turkmenistan and EU Discuss New Projects
- Kazakhstan Bank Deposits Decline by $1.1 Billion
- Drug Dealing in Kazakhstan Continues to Gain Momentum
- Uzbek Environmentalists Propose Harnessing Rainwater to Combat Water Crisis
- South Korea to Supply Uzbekistan With High-Speed Trains
- London University Installs Bust of Persian-Tajik Cultural Force Rudaki
- Tears and Laughter: An Evening at an Uzbek Theater
- Scandal on Khabar TV Raises Discussions About Domestic Violence in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan: A Rising Global Player in Trade and Diplomacy
- Swiss Holding to Invest in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan And Uzbekistan To Install Transboundary Water Meters
- Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Be Responsible!’ Health Program Screens 680,000 Men
- Uzbekistan Plans to Increase Exports of Agricultural Products to $3.5 Billion Annually
- Samarkand Replaces Paris as Host of UNESCO Conference
- Turkmenistan Bans Iranian Colas and Face Creams
- Central Asia Can Help Bring Afghanistan into the International Fold
- Kazakhstan and China Increase Trade by 30 Percent
- Oil Products Were Kazakhstan’s Most Transported Cargo in 2023
- North Caspian Operating Company Preparing for Onshore Oil Production at Kashagan
- Kazakhstan to Expand Trade Cooperation with Chinese Provinces
- EDB Boosts Investment in Kazakh Projects
- EBRD Finances Wastewater Treatment Plant in Kazakhstan
- What Bank Loan Data Can Tell Us About Kazakh Business in 2023
- Uzbekistan to Increase Production and Export of Agricultural Produce
- Creation of Kazakhstan–Azerbaijan “Supreme Interstate Council” Marks New Era of Cooperation
- Uzbekistan Starts Exporting Copper Products to the U.S. and Mexico
- Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan Agree to Further Border-Demarcation Protocol
- EU Allocates $49 Million to Tajikistan for Energy Projects
- Turkmenistan’s Food Prices Continue to Rise
- Health Specialists Visit Almaty Reference Laboratory
- Montana Farmer Pleads Guilty to Cloning Endangered Kyrgyz Argali Sheep
- Uzbekistan Reforms Punishments for Importation of Drones
- Starting Over: Central Asian Countries Celebrate the Arrival of Spring
- Astana Projects Attract Qatari, Turkish, Russian Interest
- Kazakhstan Bans LPG Export and Wheat Import
- US Helps Kyrgyzstan Prepare for Future Pandemics
- EBRD Supports Expansion of Kazakhstan’s Salt Production
- Potential Impact of EU Carbon Tax on Kazakhstan’s Industries
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Set to Increase Trade
- Optimism Meets Reality at the B5+1 Forum in Almaty
- Hundreds of Cargo Trucks Queued Up at Kyrgyzstan Border to Enter Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan Agree to Improve Ecology of Aral Sea Basin
- German Investors Plan to Build Airport in Khorgos
- Turkmenistan May Supply Gas, Electricity to Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkey
- Air Asia, Malaysia Airlines to Receive Fifth Degree Air Freedom in Kazakhstan
- World Bank Supports Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan
- Manufacture of Chevrolet Onix Cars Launched in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan Tightens Control Over Foreign-Funded NGOs
- High-Profile Speakers Open B5+1 Forum in Almaty
- UAE’s Masdar to Build Four Pumped-Storage Power Plants in Uzbekistan
- Kazakh IT Companies Seek to Expand Operations in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan’s Uranium Deposits Attract Foreign Investors
- President of Kyrgyzstan Withdraws Controversial Draft Mass Media Law
- Problems and Solutions: Uzbekistan Presents National Report on the State of the Environment
- Movie Streaming Grows as Kazakhstan’s Film and Media Prices Rise
- Kyrgyzstan to Open Trade Promotion House in Kabul
- Kazakhstan’s Potential to Overtake China in Production of Rare-Earth Metals
- Over 100 Cases of Terrorism and Extremism Addressed by Kazakh Courts
- Kazakhstan Poised to Spend almost Half a Billion Dollars on Recycling
- Kazakhstan and China to Expand Trade and Economic Cooperation
- Uzbekistan Foreign Minister Visits Afghanistan to Boost Economic Ties
- Thirteen Thousand Foreigners Working in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan Taking Steps Towards Cleaner Water
- Food Aid for 1.5 Million People in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan to Lay Fiber-Optic Communication Cables Along Caspian Sea Bed
- CIPE’s Inaugural B5+1 Forum Opens in Almaty
- Turkish Doctors to Help Create a Centre for Organ Transplants in Kyrgyzstan
- Tajik Citizens Committed Terrorist Attacks in 10 Countries in the Past Three Years
- Uzbekistan Ranks Fifth Among Tajikistan’s Bilateral Trade Partners
- “You’re Afraid I’m Not Beautiful; I’m Afraid You’ll Kill Me” – Women Rally in Bishkek
- Kazakhstan to Introduce Luxury Tax on Items from Yachts to Cigars
- “Your Life is Your Freedom” – Women Rally in Almaty
- Kazakhstan Secures Foreign Investment in 40 Major Projects for 2024
- Kazakhstan and Great Britain Sign Strategic Partnership on Critical Minerals
- Female Entrepreneurs to Expand Mentoring – Great Strides for Uzbekistan
- Iraq in Negotiation with Iran to Transfer Gas from Turkmenistan
- Kazakhstan to Satisfy Italy’s Appetite for Horsemeat
- Turkey to Step up Investment in Uzbekistan’s Production of Footwear
- Uzbekistan’s Gold, Hard Currency Reserves Down by $2.4 Billion in 2024
- Russia to Allocate Over $23 Million for Remediation of Uranium Tailings in Kyrgyzstan
- Artificial Intelligence to Monitor Kyrgyzstan’s Glacial Lakes to Prevent Outburst Flooding
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- U.S. Ambassador Calls on Tajik Government to Protect Journalists’ Rights
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- Japan and UN WFP Support Vulnerable Citizens in Kyrgyzstan
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- Kazakhstan soars on gender data transparency amid mixed results from rest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan Joins the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Despite Being a Landlocked Country
- Uzbekistan to Get Two More Wind Farms to Support Domestic Energy Sector
- Climate Change Threatens Kyrgyzstan With Potential Energy Crisis
- Turkmenistan Border Seeing Illegal Economic Activities Committed From Afghanistan’s Side
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- US Policymakers and Central Asian Business Leaders Gather in Almaty for the CIPE B5+1 Forum
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- World Bank Group Landmark Visit to Central Asia
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- Kazakh-European Proposal for CRM and Green Hydrogen Strategy
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- China to Send Container Trains From Jiangsu Through Kazakhstan
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- Chinese Company to Establish a Bank in Kyrgyzstan
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- Turkmenistan Eyes Greater Role in Organization of Turkic States
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- Uzbekistan to Introduce New Visa Program for Those Looking for ‘Second Home’
- Kazakhstan, Lithuania to Launch Joint Container Transportation Program
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- Uzbekneftgaz’s Gas Production Target Declines Again
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- Kyrgyzstan Responds to Climate Change with Artificial Glaciers
- USAID Supports Uzbekistan’s First Green Hydrogen Hub
- Kazakhstan Seeks U.S. Cooperation to Develop Critical Minerals
- EBRD Announces Third Stage of Funding for Green Projects in Kyrgyzstan
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- Development Plan for Astana Agglomeration Approved
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- About 100 Kazakhs Are Enslaved Laborers in Southeast Asia
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- Uzbekistan to Help Afghanistan Repair Hairaton – Mazar-e-Sharif Railroad
- Tatneft to Explore for Hydrocarbons in Kazakhstan
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- Kyrgyz Re-Exporters of Chinese Cars Will Soon Pay Higher Duties
- Children in the Fields, Not at Their Desks: Turkmenistan Continues to Use Child Labor in Cotton Harvest
- Italian Company to Begin Cultivating Snails in Kazakhstan
- Exclusive: Breaking Down Kazakhstan’s Claims Against International Oil Consortiums
- Uzbekistan’s Upper House of Parliament Undergoes Structural Changes
- Uzbekistan Signs $246 Million Loan Agreement With Japanese Agency
- Chinese Hackers Accessed Kazakh Telecoms Data for Two Years
- Uzbekistan Plan to Invest $470 Million to Increase Gas Imports From Russia
- Kazakhstan to Increase Production of Auto Components
- Five Hundred Uzbek Orphans Will Be Provided With New Homes in 2024
- Spanish Company Ready to Explore for Groundwater in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan to Report to UN on Events of January 2022 Unrest
- Bodies of Kazakh Rescue Workers Swallowed by Sinkhole Still Missing After Seven Weeks
- Peace Following Kyrgyz-Tajik Clashes Allows Hydro Engineers to Visit Tajikistan
- Record Numbers of Pink Flamingos Are Wintering in Turkmenistan
- The Cost of Bread and Flour in Turkmenistan is Steeply Rising
- Kazakhstan Peacekeepers Deployed to Golan Heights
- Major Kazakh Oil Company Fined Over Fire that Wasn’t Extinguished for 200 Days
- Nearly 750,000 Students in Kazakhstan to Get a New School
- Eco-Activists Tackle Dust Storms on Karakalpakstan’s Aral Sea
- Kazakhstan Receives $46 Million Grant From World Bank’s Pandemic Fund
- China Replaces Russia as Kazakhstan’s Biggest Trade Partner
- U.S. Company Takes Over Kazakh Locomotive Plant
- Uzbekistan Ranks First in Central Asia in Number of Marriages and Last in Divorces
- EBRD and Shinhan Bank Upgrade Almaty’s Atakent Conference Hub
- Central Asians Continue Working in South Korea Despite Legal Issues
- Daughter of Uzbekistan’s First President Sells Beverly Hills Home for $36 Million
- Kyrgyzstan’s Kumtor Begins Underground Gold Mining
- Kazakhstan Mulls Alternative Freight Routes
- Germany and Kazakhstan Expand Their Partnership
- EDB Reports Economic Growth in Three Central Asian Countries
- Problems and Prospects for Development: Raushan Yeschanova on Art in Kazakhstan
- What to Expect from Central Asian Economies in 2024
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan To Build ‘Central Asia’ Industrial Center
- IFC Invests in Tajikistan’s First Green Bond
- Kyrgyzstan Sees Surge In Car Imports From China
- It Has Been 25 years Since the Terrorist Attack in Tashkent
- Uzbek Children for Sale: What Compels Mothers to Part With Their Young Ones?
- Kazakhstan’s Dimash Kudaibergen becomes UN Ambassador
- Qatari Companies to Invest $500m in Kazakhstan’s Agriculture
- Kyrgyzstan’s Migrant Workers Remitted $2.7 Billion in 2023
- Germany Interested in Kazakh Lithium
- U.S. Embassy Creates English Textbooks for Schools in Tajikistan
- Gold Kyrgyzstan’s Main Export Item in 2023
- Death of Navalny Met With Mixed Feelings in Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan’s President Declares Own Multi-Million Dollar Property as Part of Asset Legalization
- Time for the U.S. to Cement a “Nuclear-Weapon-Free” Central Asia
- Foreign Companies Operating in Kazakhstan Double in Five Years
- Child Brides, Forced Marriages Among Gender Equality Topics
- Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan Move to Simplify Travel Rules for Each Other’s Citizens
- Uzbekistan Builds First Wind Farm
- Global Ecological Connectivity Partnership Launches in Uzbekistan
- EBRD Acquires Stake in Air Astana
- One Health Nature Conservation Project Launches in Central Asia
- Air Astana: LSE’s largest IPO of 2024 Set to Test Appetite of Investors
- Doha Hosts Kazakhstan–Qatar Investment Roundtable
- Kazakhstan’s Proposed Nuclear Power Plant: a Geopolitical Tightrope amid Environmental Concerns
- Bridging East and West: Kazakhstan’s Changing Foreign Policy in the 2020s
- Kazakhstan Uses Income Declaration to Fight the Shadow Economy
- Kazakhstan’s President Among First Foreign Leaders to Address Quorum of Qatar’s Parliament
- Women in Uzbekistan May Now Drive Buses and Heavy Trucks
- Doctors, Teachers Among Lowest-Paid Trained Professions in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan Continues Countdown Ahead of Move to Single Unified Timezone
- Kazakhstan to Team Up With Turkish Partner to Produce Warships at Caspian Port
- USAID Helps To Eradicate Tuberculosis In Tajikistan
- Cocaine Smuggled Into Kazakhstan From Italy and Poland Hidden in Coffee Capsules
- Uzbekistan Launches Reforms to Boost Economy
- Almaty the Most Popular Tourist Destination in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan’s Military Blasts Mountains With Anti-Aircraft Guns for Avalanche Safety
- Kozy Korpesh – Bayan Sulu: Kazakhstan’s Valentine’s Day
- U.S. and Central Asian Countries Launch C5+1 Critical Minerals Dialog
- Kazakhstan’s Government aims For 6% Economic Growth
- Uzbekistan’s Lake Julturbas Added to List Of Vital Wetlands
- Kazakhstan to Build Supercomputer
- Why Are You Allowed and We Are Not? Japarov Responds to U.S. on Foreign Agents Law
- Central Asia’s First Green University Opens in Uzbekistan
- Central Asian Countries Work together to Protect Migratory Species
- Farmers in Uzbekistan to Receive 60,000 Hectares of Land
- EDB Plans $3.5bn investment in Kazakhstan Projects in 2024
- Kyrgyz Court Rules in Favor of Shutting Down another Mass Media Outlet
- Two New tourist Stops Open on Kyrgyzstan’s Silk Road
- Uzbekistan Warns of Labor Migration Fraud involving United States
- Cases of Hepatitis, Measles and influenza Spiking across Central Asia
- Water Crisis in Uzbekistan: an interview with Eco-journalist Nargis Kosimova
- Endangered Fish Species in the Amu Darya Basin May Disappear Due to Hydropower Plants
- Uzbekistan Continues Switching Public Transport to Electric-Powered
- Potential Water Crisis in Uzbekistan: An Interview with Eco-journalist Nargis Kosimova
- How Kazakhs see their personal and national well-being at the end of 2023
- Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Business Forum Held in Ankara
- Georgia to Help Kazakhstan Develop Olive Production
- Shares of Air Astana Begin Trading on Local and London Bourse
- Japan-Funded Project Helps Tajikistan Manage Its Border With Afghanistan
- Thirty-Three Children Die from Influenza
- China The Largest Foreign Investor In Uzbekistan
- China Lifts Restrictions On Importing Livestock From Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan Struggling With Cost of Imports
- Kazakhstan And Great Britain Discuss Further Cooperation
- Inspection of TPP in Tashkent Region Reveals Harmful Emissions
- Karaganda Authorities Refuse Picket Over Renaming Nursultan Nazarbayev Avenue
- Central Asia’s First Center for the Support of Women and Girls to Open in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan to Strengthen Protections Against Domestic Violence
- Turkmenistan Participates in Meeting on Ending Discrimination Against Women
- Tajikistan’s Hajj Pilgrims Reach Record Numbers
- U.S. State Department Asks Kyrgyzstan To Reconsider Foreign Agents Law
- Lukashenko In Uzbekistan To Talk Trade
- EDB To Help Tajikistan’s Somon Air Buy Two Aircraft
- Kyrgyzstan To Pay Over $1.2bn Of Foreign Debt Before 2026
- Kazakhstan And Hungary To Cooperate On Petrochemicals
- Kazakhstan To Work With United Kingdom On Green Energy
- Keeping Central Asia Out of Conflicts: An Interview with Political Analyst Uran Usenov
- Kyrgyz Authorities Confiscate $35 Million of Oligarch Matraimov’s Assets – Plan to Nationalize Another $50 million of Property
- Kazakhstan Claws Back Another $98.5 Million From Nazarbayev’s Nephew
- Russian E-Commerce Giant Wildberries Heads for Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
- Rahmon Approves New Leadership of Anti-Corruption Agency
- Kazakhstan Shapes an Ambitious Future
- Turkmenneft Building Closer Relationship With UAE’s Dragon Oil
- From Sabotage to Negligence: Kyrgyz Parliament Seeks to Hold Bishkek Plant Management Accountable After Accident
- Kazakhstan Launches Online Safety Campaign
- Kazakhstan Extends Oil Exports To Germany
- Uzbekistan Boosts Electric Vehicle Industry
- Kazakhstan Political Experts Outline Tasks Ahead for New Government
- Turkmen Prosecutors Fired in an Attempt to Curb Corruption
- Tokayev Outlines Vision for New Government of Kazakhstan
- World Bank’s Kyrgyzstan Head Discusses Energy Sector Needs
- All Kyrgyz Citizens in Need of Kidney Transplants to Receive Free Operations
- Uzbekistan Sold the Second Most Gold Last Year; Kazakhstan Held Top Spot
- Set of Quadruplets Born in Dushanbe
- One of Malaysia’s Largest Supermarket Chains to Open in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan Produces Over Half Of The EU’s Critical Raw Materials
- Stepping Out of Stalin’s Shadow: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan Demarcate 90% of Border
- Tajik President, Kyrgyz FM Discuss Border Delimitation
- Kazakhstan To Increase Oil Shipping Along Trans-Caspian Route
- Kazakhstan To Co-Chair Conference On Nuclear Security
- Harnessing Social Media for Social Change: An Interview with Tashkent-based Eco-Blogger Mutabar Khushvaktova
- Bektenov Named as New Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
- Residents of Central Kazakhstan Village Arrested For Trying To Halt Saiga Killings
- Almaty Woman Protests Banning Of Women’s Rights March
- Uzbekistan Tightens Requirements for Medicine Sales and Storage
- Uzbekistan, Germany to Establish Informational Platform for Tourists
- Turkmenistan Sends 2,000 Tons Of Liquefied Gas To Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan Urges EEU Countries To Develop Transport Infrastructure
- Kyrgyzstan To Breed Belgian Blue Cows
- Kazakhstan’s Economy Forecast To Grow By 5.3% In 2024
- UNDP Supports Sustainable Development of Caspian Region
- Understanding the Changes in the Kazakhstan Government
- Kazakhstan’s Government Resigns Amidst Sweeping Reforms
- Central Asia’s Mineral Wealth Can Help the West Unlock a Greener Future
- USAID Helps Improve Kazakhstan’s Investment Legislation
- Bishkek Heating Plant To Be Modernized After Breakdown
- Uzbekistan To Increase Agricultural Exports
- Year 2022 Marked the Beginning of the End of Nazarbayev’s Rule
- Elbasy No More: Monument to Nazarbayev Removed From National Museum
- Domestic Violence Victims Can Now Obtain EU Refugee Status After Ruling
- The Global Family: How Would-Be Parents From Abroad Adopt Kazakhstani Children
- Uzbekistan’s Rare Ancient Trees Cut Down Illegally Once Again
- U.S.-Kazakhstan Relations: Trade Revenue Has Risen to Record Highs, But Investments From U.S. Side Have Fallen
- Uzbekneftegaz Partners With Canadian Firm Condor Energies
- Kazakhstan And Kyrgyzstan Address Border And Water Issues
- Kyrgyzstan Looks To Harness Geothermal Energy
- Drip Irrigation Equipment Plant To Open In South Kazakhstan
- Plans Underway For Central Asia’s First Privately Owned Airport
- Uzbek Film “Dreamers” Wins Award at Cannes World Film Festival
- Chinese Partners To Help Modernize Uzbekistan’s Electric Power Industry
- Almaty Hosts First SCO Digital Forum
- Bishkek Plans A Cable Car Line
- World Bank Provides Additional Support For Rural Water Services In Kyrgyzstan
- 70% Of Kazakhstanis Happy With Their Life, World Bank Survey Finds
- Electronic Devices Banned From Classrooms
- Earthquakes Rekindle Fears Over Lake Sarez
- Kyrgyz Gold Mines Produce Over 20 Tons Annually, But Local Jewelers Pay Above Global Price
- Kyrgyzstan Wins ICC Case Against Kazakh State Gas Company
- Indian Pharma Makes Changes After Cough Syrup Kills Uzbek Children
- Model From Kazakhstan Receives Top Award From U.S. Social Media Firm
- Central Asia’s Only Intercity Trolleybus System: Where Does It Run And How Does It Work?
- Kazakhstan Tries To Ward Off Locust Invasion
- Kazakhstan Produced Four Million Tons of Steel In 2023
- Trans-Caspian Corridor Receives Boost
- Kazakhstan Searches For More Military Personnel
- Uzbekistan Gains Ground Against Corruption in Annual Perception Ranking
- What Awaits the Media in Kazakhstan: Changes to the Draft Law on Mass Media
- Pilot Public-Private Partnership Project to Modernize Power Distribution System
- Will Construction Of Kyrgyzstan’s “Chinese Railroad” Start This Year?
- Forest Nurseries Created In Turkmenistan
- China’s Sinopec To Join Polyethylene Project In Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan Could Become Main Transport Link Between Europe And Asia
- Kazakhstan Improves Its Water Infrastructure
- Why Do People in Kyrgyzstan Refuse Seasonal Vaccinations?
- Waiting for Cubs: How Almaty Zoo is Helping Save the Amur Tiger Population
- Uzbekistan’s “Plant 100 Saplings” Initiative: A Green Response to Illegal Tree-Felling
- Kazakhstan Becomes Most Attractive Country for Migrants From Uzbekistan
- Almaty is the Most Expensive City in Central Asia
- First Regular Flights From Beijing Arrive In Bishkek
- EU To Simplify Visa Regime For Kazakhstanis
- Platform Supporting Female Entrepreneurs Launches In Uzbekistan
- Mirziyoyev Fortifies China-Uzbekistan Relations for Economic and Green Transformation
- €10bn To Be Invested In Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor
- Kyrgyzstan’s GDP Reached $13.7bn In 2023
- EU And AFD Support Uzbekistan’s Drinking Water And Livestock Sectors
- German Company To Help Create Medical Cluster In Turkmen City Of Arkadag
- Japan to Assist Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in Seismic Risk Detection
- Leopard Shot Dead In Turkmenistan
- Kazakhstan Creates Caspian Sea Research Institute
- EBRD Approves New Strategy For Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan Freezes Transit Cost of Russian Oil To China
- “Close Your Windows, Avoid Outdoor Exercise” – Residents Fear Air Pollution in Tashkent
- Visit of a Delegation from Turkmenistan to Japan: Prospects for Cooperation
- Rain in Tashkent Reduced Air Pollution by Three Times
- Croatia To Transport Kazakh Oil To European Markets
- What types of crimes did the people of Uzbekistan commit in 2023?
- Astana Motors To Build New Plant In Almaty
- Unplanned vacations: 50,000 Aktobe Schoolchildren Missed Classes Because of Fake Terrorist Threat
- Chinese Company To Build Four Power Plants in Kyrgyzstan
- Tashkent To Introduce Cable Car To Help Resolve Transport Problem
- EBRD Invested More Than €1.2bn In Central Asian Economies In 2023
- Aral Sea Parallels Loom Over Lake Balkhash
- Mirziyoyev Speaks At Uzbek-Chinese Investment Forum
- Chinese Company Launches Assembly Of Electric Vehicles In Uzbekistan
- Italy Proposes Project To Mitigate Climate Change Consequences In Aral Sea
- Tajikistan Sums Up Economic Results For 2023
- President Mirziyoyev Meets Xi Jinping on State Visit to China
- Negotiations on Syria Have Started in Kazakhstan
- China and Uzbekistan Cement Strategic Partnership
- Digital Almaty Forum To Be Held In February
- Mirziyoyev, Chinese Premier Discuss Economic Cooperation
- USAID Delivers 131 Tons Of Food Aid To Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan Needs Better Agricultural Technology
- Uzbekistan, AIIB Sign Three-Year Investment Program
- EU Drives Increased Demand For Kazakh Coal
- Kazakhstan at a Crossroads: Navigating Geopolitical Dynamics in Eurasia
- European Parliament calls for close cooperation with strategically important Central Asia
- Kaspi.kz attracts nearly $1bn of investment in US market
- Seasonal workers in Kyrgyzstan look to Europe
- The World Bank will help Kyrgyzstan to build Kambarata HPP-1
- Violence Against Migrants: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan Appeal to Russia
- Monument to Al-Beruniy erected in the USA
- “At a Crossroads” – Atlantic Council Addresses Rare Earth Elements in Central Asia
- Excise tax increase provokes a rise in alcohol prices
- Shipment of psychotropic substances seized in Almaty
- Uzbekistan’s energy production figures have fallen
- Uzbekistan Bans Mining Non-Metallic Materials In Rivers
- Earthquake In Almaty: Residents Speak Of Panic And Damage
- Kazakhstan’s Top Five Tourist Sites Revealed
- President Rahmon Invites Qatari Business to Invest in Tajikistan
- Forum Of Uzbek Regions And Chinese Provinces Held In Xinjiang
- The Last Emir of Bukhara – In the Shadow of Antiquity
- Kazakh PM Reports On Country’s Economic Results For 2023
- Turkmen Foreign Minister Visits Japan, Meets With Business Community
- Earthquake related Fake News stirs concern among tense Almaty residents
- Kyrgyz Republic Unaffected by Recent Earthquake, Says Chief Seismologist
- Magnitude 7 quake strikes China-Kyrgyzstan border area. Buildings evacuated in Kazakhstan’s biggest city.
- Turkmenistan and UNESCO: joint efforts to preserve cultural heritage
- Uzbek President Mirziyoyev Lauds Strategic Partnership with China
- Kazakhstan President Tokayev Makes First Visit to Vatican
- Italian Agricultural Holding Enters Kazakhstan Market
- Senator Zhanna Asanova: the bill against domestic violence is ready to be submitted to the Majilis
- Uzbekistan’s senators amend legislation to improve environmental safety
- Uzbekistan Ratifies Agreement on Transfer of Prisoners with Iran
- Air Astana Preparing for IPO
- The Senate of Kazakhstan approves an agreement with France on fighting climate change
- Infrastructure development: Qatari investors see prospects in Tajikistan
- Year of Kazakhstan Tourism in China to Begin in March
- Kazakhstan Seeks FAO Support in Promoting Exports of Aport Apples
- New Trade and Logistics Center Opened on Kazakhstan-China Border
- Kazakhstan Invites German Businesses to Invest in Its Agriculture Sector
- From Steppe to Subcontinent: The Indianisation of the Huns and Śakas from Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan Announces Date of 5th World Nomad Games
- Chinese Agricultural Drones May Be Manufactured in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan Aims to Attract More Foreign Investment, Increase Exports
- Mirziyoyev: Officials Must Reorient to Preserve Environment
- European Parliament Condemns Repression in Tajikistan, Underlying Issues Persist
- President Tokayev Calls on Italian Businesses to Invest in Kazakhstan
- Mirziyoyev to Visit China – Strengthen Strategic Partnership
- Kazakhstan to Send Peacekeepers on UN Missions
- Changes in Composition of National Kurultai
- Kaspi.kz Announces Plans for NASDAQ IPO
- Kazakhstan Advocates for Cadaveric Donation to Address Organ Transplantation Needs
- Visa-Free Travel from China Could Further Boost Kazakhstan’s Tourism Sector
- Akim of Mangystau Calls for Calm after Mass Swan Die-out
- New International Terminal of Almaty Airport to Open in June
- Kazakhstan Exported Close to a Million Tons of Oil to Germany in 2023
- Russia Reopens Market for Kazakhstan’s Livestock Products
- European Commission Vice-President’s Visit a “New Impetus” to EU-Turkmenistan Relations
- UAE Opens Borders to Tourists from Uzbekistan, Abolishes Visa-Regime
- International Organizations Call on Kyrgyzstan to Stop Crackdown on Independent Press
- Preliminary Agreement for LPG Supplies from Kashagan to Domestic Market Reached
- Kyrgyzstan Gives “National Significance” Status to Strategic Energy Projects
- Despite Challenges, Kyrgyzstan Showed Steady Economic Growth in 2023
- President of Uzbekistan Sets Economic Tasks for 2024
- What the Proposed U.S. Ban on Russian Uranium Imports Could Mean for Kazakhstan
- Surveillance Cameras to be Installed in Samarkand Region to Combat Fly-Tipping
- Ambitious Program to Plant 65 Million Trees and Shrubs Launched
- Mazhilis Expanding Network of Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles
- Kazatomprom Changes Work Plan for 2024
- Dodo Brands joins growing list of companies moving HQs to Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan to launch an entrepreneurship sustainability rating
- Increased Cooperation Between Uzbekistan and Singapore
- Development of Kyrgyzstan’s largest iron deposit begins
- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan continue to work on harmonizing state border
- Nephew of ex-President Nazarbayev to be Tried
- Kazakhstan’s Foreign Debt Inches Upwards
- Kyrgyzstan Budget Surplus for 2024
- EU Ready to Deepen Cooperation with Kyrgyzstan
- U.S. Peace Corps to Help Develop Sustainable Tourism
- Government Addresses Electricity Generation
- Kazakhstan Looks to Increase E-Commerce Share to 20%
- Kazakhstan Invites EU Community to Expand Participation in Joint Projects
- Ministry Looks to Tackle Air Pollution in Tashkent Amid Flash Mob Protest
- Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan Among Nations Prepared to Invest in Afghanistan
- Central Asian Governments Pass Comment on Election Result in Taiwan
- Interest-Free Loans for SMEs in Kyrgyzstan
- Organ Transplantation Developing in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan Sums Up Democratic Reforms, Human Rights Efforts
- Import of Disassembled Right-Hand Drive Cars Banned
- Kazakhstan Launches Online Video Conferencing Platform
- Tajikistan Elevates Cultural Presence with Permanent Delegation at UNESCO
- Citizens Unite for Environmental Clean-up
- German Company to Invest €100 Million in Plastic Production in Kazakhstan
- Oil Exports Across Caspian Sea Increase
- World Bank Provides Additional Support for Kyrgyz Republic’s Digital Transformation
- Mass Die-Out of Swans in Mangystau: What are the Causes?
- Uzbekistan Modernizing Defense Industry
- Chinese Company to Supply Equipment to Businesses via Local Bank
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- U.S. Ambassador Addresses Relations with Kazakhstan
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- Japanese Company to Develop Kyrgyzstan’s Coal Industry
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- Uzbekistan to Boost Development in Karakalpakstan
- USAID Provides $1.4 Million to Strengthen Central Asia’s Power Sector
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- Kazakhstan and Japan to Cooperate in Low-Carbon Development
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- Almaty Ranked 25th in New York Times Cities to Visit 2024
- Bishkek Delegation Visits Chinese Solid Waste Enterprise
- UNDP Supports Kyrgyzstan in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Ecosystem Management
- New City, Alatau, Established in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan Bans Inspections of Businesses Until End of 2024
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- President’s First Book Presented in Turkmenistan
- Kazakhstan to Plant Forests on a Million Hectares of Former Aral Seabed
- Kazakhstan Prepares to Host Fifth World Nomad Games
- Kazakhstan to Host Sixth Digital Almaty Forum
- Uzbekistan Taking Measures to Increase Employment
- Introduction of Separate Collection of Household Waste to Begin
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- Uzbekistan: Successful Reforms in Environmental Protection and Waste Management
- Summit of Heads of Government to be held on 300th Anniversary of Pyragy
- Tajikistan Seeking to Become Key International Transit Hub
- Kazatomprom Qualifies for Production of Advanced Nuclear Fuel
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- Forum to Attract Foreign Investment in Turkmenistan’s Energy Sector to be Held in Paris
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- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to Increase Bilateral Trade
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- President Sends Condolences Following Terrorist Attack in Iran
- Kazakhstan Takes Sixth Position in FDI Standout Watchlist
- Kazakhstan Now Chairs International Fund for Saving Aral Sea
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- President Promises Support for Youth and Business in Uzbekistan in 2024
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- Uzbekistan and Turkey Aim to Increase Bilateral Trade to $5 Billion
- Kazakhstan’s Senate Speaker Highlights Major Laws Passed in 2023
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- Charting the Digital Future: Tokayev’s Billion-Dollar Vision
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- Tajikistan to Achieve Energy Independence and Become Green Country
- Kazakhstan Remains Regional Leader in Attracting Foreign Investment, Says PM
- “Walking the Silk Road” Chinese Cultural Exhibition Held in Bishkek
- Turkmenistan and China to Expand Cooperation in Education
- Kyrgyzstan’s Debt to China: Another lever of Influence?
- ADB and Kompanion Bank to Boost Financing of Women-Led and Small Businesses in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan and CNPC to Expand Cooperation
- Uzbekistan to Cover Growing Demand with Green Energy Sources
- EBRD to Tackle Bottlenecks on Major Logistical Hub
- President Launches Six Green Power Plants with Total Capacity of 2.4 Gigawatts
- Gazprom Eyes Central Asia Amid European Sanctions
- Raids Target Illegal Medicine Sales in Remote Turkmen Villages
- Investigation Launched into Mobile Operators
- Tajikistan in Penultimate Place in English Language Proficiency
- Group-IB Opens First Digital Crime Resistance Center in Central Asia
- Uzbekistan’s Economy Resilient to Global Challenges, Says IMF
- 458 Saiga Antelope Killed For Their Horns
- Kazakhstan: A decree on human rights demonstrates the government is responsive to the people’s demands
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- Islamic Extremism in Central Asia: A Threat to Liberal Progress
- EU’s €20M Project to Diversify Internet Resources in Kazakhstan with Satellite Communications
- OCCRP Reports on Corruption Linked to Berdimuhamedov family
- Leonardo DiCaprio Congratulates Government of Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan Agree on Another Border Section
- EEU Leaders Seek to Strengthen Position of Economic Bloc
- Government to Support Projects of Young Investors and Entrepreneurs
- Natural Gas Production in Uzbekistan Down by 4.5 Billion Cubic Meters in 2023
- Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund to Finance Projects Worth $140 Million
- Kazakhstan Leads Initiatives for Central Asian Trade and Connectivity
- President Reiterates Resolve to Combat Crime and Corruption
- Kyrgyzstan Seeks to Expand Ties with South India
- Despite Protests, Kyrgyz President Signs Bill Amending National Flag
- Inaugural Meeting of Kazakhstan-Saudi Business Council Held in Riyadh
- Uzbek Foreign Ministry Summons Russian Ambassador over Annexation Comments
- EU Calls on Turkmenistan to Protect Rights
- Quality of Communications Checked in Multiple Regions
- How Will Free Trade Zone Between EAEU and Iran Affect Kazakhstan?
- Kyrgyzstan to Create a Ministry of Water Management
- Kazakhstan to Build New Reservoirs to Reduce Dependence on Neighboring Countries
- Large Gas Condensate Field Put into Operation in West Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan Launches Construction of New Railroad to China
- Chinese Company to Produce, Install Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia on Path to Strategic Partnership
- Turkmenistan and EU Discuss Energy, Transport and Environmental Issues
- Iran Cancels Visa Requirement for Citizens of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan’s Investment Opportunities Presented in Indonesia
- Import of Chinese Cars to Kyrgyzstan Surges, with Russia as Final Destination
- UN Declares 2026 as International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development on Kazakhstan’s Initiative
- Monument Symbolizing Fight Against Corruption Unveiled in Tashkent
- Mutual Direct Investments Among Central Asian Countries Growing
- Uzbekistan to Drill Deeper for Natural Gas
- Uzbekistan Provides Incentives for Households to Install Solar Panels
- Government Reports Steady Economic Growth
- Chinese Automaker Chery to Build Auto-Industrial Park in Almaty
- President Japarov: Kyrgyzstan Should Provide Irrigation Water to Kazakhstan
- EBRD to Allocate €200 Million for Development of Youth Businesses in Central Asia
- Turkmenistan – EU: Transport and Energy on Agenda of Upcoming Forums
- “Updates and Reforms”: Communications Service Expands Cooperation with Russian Federation
- Length of U.S. Visas for Kyrgyz Citizens Set to Increase
- Over 10,000 Schoolchildren in Kazakhstan Learning French
- USAID Launches New Project to Empower Communities in Uzbekistan
- Belgian Company Helps Open First Plant for Production of High-Quality Lime in Kazakhstan
- The Impact of the Narcotics Trade in Tajikistan
- The Geopolitical Fallout of Taliban’s Takeover: Neighboring Countries and Their Responses
- The Threat of Taliban to Democracy in Tajikistan: An Intensifying Crisis
- Berlin Eurasian Club Explores Kazakh-German Science and Innovation Synergy
- Uzbekistan Plans to Manufacture One Million Cars a Year by 2030
- Kyrgyzstan to Start Exporting Electricity in 2026, Says PM
- President Speaks about Fighting Corruption, New Trade Routes in Eurasia
- President Writes-Off Debts of Tajiktransgaz
- Mass Die-Out of Seals on the Turkmen Coast of the Caspian Sea
- Australian Company to Help Digitalize Gold Mining in Uzbekistan
- Head of Constitutional Court Addresses Tokayev’s Reforms
- Central Asia’s Growing Economic and Strategic Importance Comes to Fore
- Sentences Handed to Six Individuals in FSB Building Terror Plot Case
- Uzbek Blogger Jailed for 7 1/2 Years
- Consulate General of Uzbekistan Officially Inaugurated in Osh
- Kazakhstan to Intensify Work to Attract Investment in Green Technologies
- Taliban and Turkmenistan Meet to Discuss Energy Collaboration
- Over 300 Individuals, Including Six Foreign Nationals, Pardoned in Turkmenistan on International Neutrality Day
- Major Reshuffle in Turkmenistan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry: New Deputy Ministers Appointed
- WFP to Help Tajikistan Strengthen Food Security
- EDB Forecasts Economic Growth for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in 2024
- Turkmenistan Participates in 75th Anniversary of Adoption of Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Geneva
- Kazakhstan Launches Modernized Water Pipeline in Atyrau and Mangystau Regions
- EDB and Kazakhstan Join Efforts for Water Investment
- World Bank to Help Kyrgyzstan Reduce Air Pollution
- U.S. and Central Asian Countries Focus on Protecting Rights of People with Disabilities
- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan Demarcate More Than 90% of Border
- Tajikistan to Connect to Chinese Internet
- Hyundai Considering Construction of Nuclear Reactors in Uzbekistan
- EU Ready to Develop Cooperation with Turkmenistan
- Turkmenistan to Open Specialized Training Center “Diplomatic Protocol” at the Institute of International Relations
- EBRD Launches Youth in Business Program in Central Asia
- Kazakhstan and Belgium’s Province of Walloon Brabant to Expand Cooperation
- Kazakhstan and Slovakia Discuss Strengthening Cooperation
- Kazakhstan Increases Oil Exports Along Trans-Caspian Route
- ADB to Improve 700 km of Rural Roads in Uzbekistan
- IFC Improves Business Environment in Tajikistan with New e-Services System
- Kazakhstan to Reduce Dependence on Water from Neighboring Countries
- 28 Citizens of Kazakhstan Evacuated from Gaza Strip
- Eight Universities in Turkmenistan Enter UI Green-Metric World Ranking
- Company in Uzbekistan Sanctioned by UK
- Civil Liberties Worsening in Kyrgyzstan Says Civicus Monitor
- Trade Between Tajikistan and Azerbaijan Increases by 26%
- Recent murder in Kazakhstan draws attention to domestic violence and gender discrimination
- Uzbekistan’s Transition to Market Economy to Accelerate
- Korea Helps Build Firefighting Station in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan
- Green Pitching Event at COP28 Focuses on Central Asia’s Sustainable Future
- ADB $40 Million Grant to Strengthen STEM Secondary Education in Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan and India to Establish Cooperation in Defense Industry
- Turkmen Activist Malikberdy Allamyradov Disappears in Russia
- Tajikistan Establishes Diplomatic Relations with Botswana
- Chinese Investors to Build Trade and Logistics Complex in Chui Region
- Government Buys ArcelorMittal Termirtau for $286 Million
- Kazakhstan Holds National Day of Mourning for Miners Killed in Fire
- Ashgabat Hosts Turkmen-Turkish Business Forum
- ADB to Help Improve Agribusiness Value Chains in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan Approves Plan for Oil and Gas Industry Development
- EBRD Supports Capital Markets in Kazakhstan
- Dedicated Space for Children Established in Police Department of Turkmenabad
- Turkmenistan-Iraq Natural Gas Deal: A Complex Balancing Act
- Tajikistan: Atlas and Adras Weaving Included in UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Kyrgyzstan Announces Moratorium on Trade Inspections
- Illegal Electricity Mining Farms Identified in Uzbekistan
- Turkmen-U.S. Business Forum Held in Ashgabat
- Kyrgyzstan’s Economy Grew Strongly in 2022 and So Far in 2023, Says IMF
- Kazakhstan’s Road Freight Transportation Sees 22% Growth: A Boon for the Economy
- Europe-Uzbekistan Association for Economic Cooperation Launched in Tashkent
- Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan Agree on More Disputed Border Areas
- Window to Europe for Uzbekistan to Remain Open Until December 2027
- Turkmenistan Preparing for Accession to Global Methane Pledge Program
- Reserve Fund of the President of Tajikistan set to Exceed US$50 Million
- Plans Approved to Complete the Gasification of Bishkek within Three Years
- Uzbekistan Signs Strategic Partnership Agreement with Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company
- Kazakhstan’s Exports to Organization of Islamic Cooperation Countries Reaches $8.4 Billion
- Turkmenistan and Russia Discuss Cooperation
- Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Energy Projects: Evaluating Potential Suppliers for a Sustainable Future
- UNDP Supports the Development of Adventure Tourism in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan Increases Oil Supplies to Germany via Russia by 54% in November
- CAREC Countries Endorse New Vision to Fight Climate Change Together
- Russia and Tajikistan will Strengthen Fight Against Terrorism, Extremism, Illegal Migration
- Son of Former Minister Faces 7-day Administrative Arrest Following Dushanbe Restaurant Altercation
- Police in Turkmenistan Apprehend Former RFE/RL Correspondent
- Kazakhstan and U.S. Issue Joint Statement on Methane Reduction
- Foreign Investors Look to Build Power Plants in the Kyrgyz Republic with a Capacity of 3.6 Gigawatts
- Uzbekistan to Expand Investment in Renewable Energy
- Uzbekistan to Take Measures for Rational Use of Water Resources in Agriculture
- Kazakhstan Signs Twenty Deals Worth $4.85 Billion in Dubai
- By 2035, the Capacity of Hydroelectric Power Plants in Central Asia Will Increase by 8,900MW
- USAID Announces the Launch of Tuberculosis-Free Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan Strengthens Cooperation with UNODC
- EBRD Commits to Green Investment in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: EU Holds Training Workshops on Sanctions Against Russia
- ADB Helps Support Privatization, Expand Lending to MSMEs in Uzbekistan
- UNDP Outlines Approach for Green Transition
- Teen Jailed for Derogatory Post About President Mirziyoyev
- Kazakhstan: Convicted Former Security Chief Massimov Faces New Charges
- Turkmenistan’s Mejlis Adopts Law on the State Budget for 2024
- Turkmenistan Honors Agrarians with State Awards “For Love of the Fatherland”
- Qairat Boranbaev Released from Prison After Returning Assets to Kazakhstan Treasury
- Taraz and Ancient Olympia: A Union of Cultural Exchange and Growth
- EDB Proposes Ten Steps to Preserve Irrigated Land Potential and Support Water Conservation in Central Asia
- Tajikistan to Connect with China’s Telecommunications Network
- ACWA Power to Build Green Hydrogen Plant
- Turkmenistan Observes World Day Against Human Trafficking
- Leaders of Tajikistan and Iran Deliberate on Bilateral Relations in Dushanbe
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to Bring Mutual Trade to $10 Billion
- World Bank Announces New Country Partnership Framework for Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbek Citizen Imprisoned for Enlisting with Russian Forces in Ukraine
- WFP and Switzerland to Strengthen Rural Communities’ Resilience to Extreme Weather
- Central Asia Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Risks, Primarily Due to Water Scarcity, Says EDB
- Blogger and Activists Placed in Pretrial Detention Following Protest over Drinking Water
- Promoting Sustainable Development in Central Asia: Key Highlights from the Eurasian Development Bank’s Roundtable
- Tajik Political Activist Sentenced to 8 ½ Years in Prison
- What Will the Future Hold for Uzbekistan’s Gas Problems?
- Jailed Former Minister’s Son Extradited from Turkey
- Tajikistan Reports Killing of Three Militants Crossing Afghan Border
- Kazakh Citizen Sentenced to Over Six Years for Joining Wagner Mercenary Group
- USAID Increases Access to Clean Water in Sughd
- Relatives of Exiled Tajik Activists Arrested
- OSCE Campaign on Youth Crime Prevention and Integrity Reaches 1.5 Million People
- IFC Appoints New Country Manager for Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan
- Armenian PM to Stay Away from CIS Summit in Bishkek
- Authorities Close Religious Institutions in Batken Region
- Turkmenistan and China Reaffirm Strategic Partnership
- USAID and Aga Khan Foundation Improve Access to Water and Sanitation in Bartang Valley
- President Tokayev’s Republic Day Speech Marks Thirty-Three Years of Independent Kazakhstan
- President Tokayev Puts Kazakhstan at the Centre of International Diplomacy
- Scores Dead After Fire at Mine Operated by ArcelorMittal
- Swiss Accuse Gulnara Karimova of Running Criminal Organization
- President Tokayev Meets with UN Secretary General Guterres
- Momentum builds for the Game-changing Trans-Caspian International Trade Route
- Kazakhstan and Chinese Premiers Meet to Discuss the New Silk Road
- Kazakhstan’s Deft Diplomacy
- The Significance of Kazakhstan’s 2023 Legislative Elections
- New Parliamentary Elections Set in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan’s progression to a “listening state”
- “This isn’t Moscow” – Kazakh Oligarchs Scuppered in New York Court
- Tokayev and Mirziyoyev make “historic breakthrough” in Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan relations
- Who Should Mediate between Russia and Ukraine? Kazakhstan Could Be the Best Option
- Kazakhstan to end “super-presidential” model of government
- Tajikistan: Remittances from labor migrants exceed foreign investments
- Iran and Afghanistan to complete railway link in March, official says
- Uzbekistan to open investment and trade office in China
- Kazakhstan: Fugitive tycoon’s ex-lawyer says her jailed brother released
- Uzbekistan launches chemical plant built by Chinese companies
- Turkmenistan declares 2020 as ‘Turkmenistan – Home of Neutrality’ year
- Despite exemptions, US sanctions hinder Afghanistan trade via Chabahar port
- Uzbekistan: Blogger freed from involuntary psychiatric care
- New round of talks in Georgia
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- UN refugee agency welcomes move to register all births in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan: Social Democratic Party members charged with attempt to seize power
- Kyrgyzstan: Activist reports being attacked in Bishkek
- Kazakhstan: Plane with 100 people on board crashes, at least 12 killed
- Tajikistan: President suggests measures to attract foreign tourists
- Uzbekistan: President orders to attract more foreign grants, use them effectively
- EuroChem invests $1 billion in mineral fertilizer plant construction in Kazakhstan
- UNDP and Bitfury partner to protect forests in Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan president speaks to Parliament, sets new tasks
- Pistachios provide an alternative to poppy in Afghanistan’s Helmand province
- Tajikistan: State newspaper prints blank front page to protest ‘lack of objective information’
- Kazakhstan to increase the number of livestock and its productivity
- Central Asia countries improve regional cooperation to better manage disaster risks
- India to speed up Iran’s Chabahar project to better access Afghanistan, Central Asia
- Private investment in intelligent systems of Kazakhstan road sector
- European Union supports Kyrgyzstan’s education sector
- Danish company awarded for technology used at GTG plant in Turkmenistan
- Niyazov commemoration services no longer welcome in Turkmenistan
- Kazakhstan: Court rules that ethnic Kazakh will not be deported to China
- Kyrgyzstan: Former Bishkek mayor sentenced to 15 years in prison
- Uzbekistan: All pro-government parties win seats in new parliament
- Georgia’s precarious state
- Turkmenistan: Domestically produced computers demonstrated to president
- Ghani set to win second term as Afghanistan president
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- China’s soft power in Central Asia
- Tajikistan: CARITAS Germany donates heavy machinery to Ayni district
- Kazakhstan: President suggests reforming rules on protests, political parties
- ADB helps Uzbekistan improve schools in Tashkent through public–private partnership
- Kyrgyzstan: U.S. Marines deliver toys to Bishkek’s SOS Children’s Village
- ADB supports women-run businesses in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
- Challenging political and security environment constrains Afghanistan growth, IMF says
- UN Special Programme for Aral Sea countries discussed in Turkmenistan
- Remittances from labor migrants in Russia exceed Tajikistan’s annual budget
- Kazakhstan’s economic growth to moderate in 2020, World Bank says
- Daughter accepts European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for jailed Uyghur scholar
- Iran and Russia warn about IS relocation to Afghanistan
- 9 children killed or maimed daily in Afghanistan, UNICEF report says
- Uzbekistan: Upcoming election a ‘missed opportunity’ for further reforms, HRW says
- Uzbekistan drafts bill toughening punishment for Internet users who call for protests
- Number of Chinese companies operating in Uzbekistan on the rise
- Turkmenistan: The art of carpet weaving included into UNESCO World Heritage List
- Kazakhstan: AIIB to fund construction of Central Asia’s largest wind power plant
- Tajikistan: Police officers sentenced to lengthy prison terms on torture charges
- Kazakhstan: Activists mark Independence Day with unsanctioned protests
- Uzbekistan president to visit Japan
- Turkmenistan will no longer pardon those convicted for corruption, drug trafficking
- Kyrgyzstan’s Ak-kalpak craftsmanship joins UNESCO’s List of Intangible Heritage
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- New vistas for trans-Caspian projects
- OSCE PA deploying first-ever election observation mission to Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan: Small businesses to benefit from EBRD finance
- Kyrgyzstan: Former President Atambayev charged with killing security officer
- Kyrgyzstan to host New Year’s Ethno Festival of Craft and Organic Products
- Central Asia: OSCE supports regional efforts to tackle digital dimensions of violent extremism
- Kyrgyzstan: Court freezes bank accounts of RFE/RL, other media following investigative report
- Kazakhstan’s women and small businesses to benefit from EBRD finance
- EBRD to help modernize healthcare infrastructure in Kazakhstan
- During US visit, Kazakhstan PM agrees on startup, venture capital, digital technology projects
- Former German manager on trial for bribing of Turkmenistan oil officials
- Second shipment of low enriched uranium completes IAEA LEU Bank in Kazakhstan
- EU and Tajikistan hold Cooperation Council meeting
- Kazakhstan ranks 50th in Human Development Index 2018 — UNDP report
- Uzbekistan plans to cancel registration by foreigners for stay under 30 days
- EU and Kyrgyzstan hold Cooperation Council meeting
- US irrigation technologies to increase agricultural productivity in Kazakhstan
- Tyson Foods, Kusto Group to build modern beef processing plant in Kazakhstan
- Xinjiang government head boasts counter-terrorism, deradicalization efforts
- Kyrgyzstan: Former President Atambayev to face psychiatric examination
- Kyrgyzstan: Prosecutors seek lengthy prison terms for two former Bishkek mayors
- Belarus may sign oil supply agreement with Kazakhstan in 2020
- Kazakhstan to keep oil production at 90 million tons a year in the next 2-3 years
- EU commits 20 million euros for hydropower plant construction in Tajikistan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Is this Central Asia’s ASEAN moment?
- ADB’s $110 million grant to build Obigarm-Nurobod road in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: Two former prime ministers receive prison terms
- Kazakhstan: EU presents ‘Letter from Nur-Sultan’ together with Carnegie Europe
- Afghanistan will need continued international support after political settlement — WB report
- Kazakhstan president promises special conditions for German investors
- Kazakhstan president visits Germany to boost economic partnership
- Ukraine responds to Kazakhstan president’s denial of Crimea’s annexation by Russia
- Kazakhstan, US discuss Enhanced Strategic Partnership
- Kyrgyzstan’s medical laboratory first in Central Asia to receive international ISO/IEC accreditation
- Turkmenistan: Former interior minister convicted of abuse of power, corruption
- China firmly opposes US House bill on Xinjiang issues
- Italy’s Eni awarded a 50 MW solar power project in Kazakhstan
- EBRD supports Uzbekistan’s healthcare industry
- Slain businessman at center of Kyrgyzstan corruption scandal moved millions abroad via cash couriers
- Tajikistan: Donors help improve waste management system in Panjakent district
- Kazakhstan aims to achieve urbanization level of 62% by 2025
- Kyrgyzstan’s economy to grow by an average of 3.4% in 2020-21 — EDB
- ADB loans to help improve access to housing finance in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan: US Embassy opens new center for inclusive education in Bishkek
- Turkmenistan’s airline company resumes flights to UK, Germany
- Tajikistan: GDP growth to slow further in 2020–21 — World Bank report
- Afghanistan: IS militants surrender after defeat in Nangarhar province
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- History repeats itself: Uzbekistan’s new Eurasian gamble
- EBRD promotes modern retail trade in Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan hosts second summit of Central Asia states
- Kyrgyzstan’s former consul-general in Istanbul detained on suspicion of abuse of office
- Tajikistan’s economic growth to slow down in 2020-2021 — EDB
- Kazakhstan economy to grow by an average of 3.5% in 2020-2021 — EDB
- During surprise visit to Afghanistan, Trump says Taliban talks resumed
- Kazakhstan: EU holds conference on enhanced integration in Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: Almaty holds investment forum to increase its investment attractiveness
- ADB supports Uzbekistan’s economic reforms with $300 million loan
- Kyrgyzstan: Prosecutors seek lengthy prison terms for former top officials at corruption trial
- Activists rally in Nur-Sultan urging EU to pressure Kazakhstan over rights
- Kazakhstan president says strategic partnership with China very important
- World Bank supports energy access in Afghanistan
- USAID launches new projects to eliminate tuberculosis in Central Asia, Tajikistan
- Tajikistan: Jailed lawyer’s prison term shortened as part of mass amnesty
- Kazakhstan: KMG associated petroleum gas disposal has reached historical maximum
- Swiss-funded project holds forum on family medicine development in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan: Iron ore deposits discovered 3 days after criticism by the president
- ODIHR opens observation mission for parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan to host second consultative meeting of Central Asia leaders
- Uzbekistan and Italy set to expand cooperation
- ADB to support tourism development in Tajikistan
- Afghanistan: US, Taliban holding unofficial talks in Doha
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Chinese repression of Muslims in Xinjiang echoes across Central Asia
- Kazakhstan, Switzerland expand trade, economic and investment cooperation
- US officials on China, India’s role in Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan: President’s office reiterates Jeenbekov had no ties with subject of RFE-led investigation
- Kyrgyzstan: Businessman detailed widespread corruption before killing in Turkey
- Kazakhstan: Turkish company to build a new shopping center in Nur-Sultan
- Kazakhstan: Singapore’s company invests $1.8 billion to build a methanol and olefin plant in Aktau
- EBRD, EU, GCF and South Korea boost climate finance in Tajikistan
- US helps Kyrgyzstan’s honey conquer global markets
- Uzbekistan: New construction phase launched at IT Park in Tashkent
- Opera returns to Turkmenistan after nearly 19 years
- Central Asia: Experts discuss irrigation modernization to enhance water productivity
- Kazakhstan, EU discuss human rights, rule of law and judiciary issues
- Kazakhstan to launch a single portal to support exporters
- Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan launch construction of fiber optic line on Caspian seabed
- Afghanistan: Government forces clear Nangarhar province of Daesh
- Kazakhstan: Activists receive parole-like restrictions for supporting banned opposition group
- Uzbekistan’s Karakalpakstan region attracts foreign investors
- Kazakhstan holds meeting of Council on Improving Investment Climate
- Uzbekistan to improve rural services, infrastructure with community participation
- Turkmenistan needs improved competitiveness, currency convertibility — IMF
- Uzbekistan: Probe started into alleged audio recording of Tashkent mayor threatening to ‘destroy’ journalists
- Green Climate Fund to help fight climate change in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan hosts First Regional SDG Summit
- There is a shrinking space for human rights in Tajikistan, EU says
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan’s president visits China amid troubles at home
- World Bank to help Kazakhstan to become key player in regional meat exports
- Prospects to develop green economy through private sector discussed in Kyrgyzstan
- ADB vice-president highlights Uzbekistan’s capital market development priorities
- Tajikistan: U.S. Department of State warns tourists of risks due to terrorism
- Central Asia: New energy and transport strategies for CAREC region
- ADB president confirms support for expanded agenda of Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
- Kyrgyzstan: US Embassy to open renovated Maker Space Lab and Fair in Bishkek
- Kazakhstan and Italy hold first business forum
- Non-oil growth expected to remain strong in Kazakhstan — IMF
- ADB president visits Uzbekistan to strengthen partnership
- US-Kazakhstan Congressional Caucus established in Washington
- Uzbekistan hosts Central Asia Water Supply and Sanitation Conference
- USAID hosts 9th annual Central Asia Trade Forum in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan’s consul-general in Istanbul sacked following businessman killing
- Nazarbayev offers Kazakhstan as neutral site for Putin-Zelenskiy talks
- Kazakhstan: Government reports steady economic growth in Jan-Oct 2019
- Kazakhstan and Turkey expand cooperation
- EU and UN FAO provide computer equipment to Tajikistan’s Agriculture Ministry
- Man wanted for huge illegal cash withdrawals from Kyrgyzstan shot dead in Istanbul
- Kazakhstan presents its ancient and medieval art in Greece
- ADB to help improve rural water supply and sanitation in Kyrgyzstan
- ADB helps to complete Uch-Kurgan hydropower plant upgrade in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan prepares to elect a new parliament
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Tajikistan president meets with business community in France
- Fourth Aarhus Centre in Kyrgyzstan opens in Naryn
- Uzbekistan, US cooperate in public health education
- RFE/RL president discusses media freedom, accreditation with Tajikistan leader
- Turkmenistan and Italy developing economic cooperation
- Pakistan views Afghanistan’s Taliban as ‘relatively friendly’ — US report
- Kazakhstan and France increase trade, investments
- New rail container service launched from China via Kazakhstan to Prague through Bosphorus
- Russia–Kazakhstan Business Council speaks for more economic cooperation
- Belarus rejects Tajikistan’s extradition request for opposition activist
- Kazakhstan to improve quality of life of 7 million rural residents
- Tajikistan: Unknown persons attack border post, 17 killed
- Germany helps to restore forests in Tajikistan
- China agrees to host meeting on Afghanistan peace between Taliban, Kabul government
- Record number of freight trains cross Kazakhstan-China border
- Central Asia: Women with HIV suffer from high level of violence, survey says
- Kazakhstan and China improve quality of bilateral cooperation
- Kazakhstan among countries with most deteriorating Internet freedoms — Freedom House
- Russia–Kazakhstan forum to discuss prospects for digital transformation
- EDB to finance wind farm construction in Kazakhstan
- FAO, SCO strengthen partnership on food security, sustainable development
- Kazakhstan PM suggests initiatives for SCO economic cooperation development
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Russia moves to strengthen its profile in Central Asian gas politics, threatens Trans-Caspian
- US builds outpost for Tajikistan’s border forces on Tajik-Afghan border
- EU, UN and Netherlands support social reintegration of prisoners in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan: Jailed son of former PM transferred to penal settlement
- Chinese premier calls for closer China-Uzbekistan ties, better SCO cooperation
- Kyrgyzstan parliament urged to reject amendments to trade union law that threaten workers’ rights
- Israel’s Watergen to help Uzbekistan fight water shortage
- Kazakhstan prime minister visits Netherlands, attends Kazakh-Dutch business forum
- Central Asia: US strengthens regional cooperation toward common electricity market
- Turkmenistan: OSCE promotes development of green ports, connectivity in Caspian region
- OSCE supports Central Asian Dialogue on reduction of prison population, development of probation
- EBRD opens second office in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan: Atambayev’s former aide sentenced to 7 years in prison
- Turkmenistan and Italy to hold business forum in Milan
- Kazakhstan: Capacity of renewable energy facilities doubled in 2019
- Kyrgyzstan: US supports Karakhanid-era mausoleum roof restoration in Uzgen
- Doing Business rating: Kazakhstan ahead of Austria, Japan, Spain, France, Switzerland and CIS countries
- US welcomes Afghanistan peace talks in China
- EU takes part in high-level conference on Aral Sea region in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan, China should expand Belt and Road cooperation, experts say
- Uzbekistan: President outlines tasks to reform banking system
- Afghanistan: Government drafts 7-point ‘Peace Plan’
- Tajikistan: President signs bill on mass amnesty
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- China-Russia security cooperation in Central Asia
- ADB to help women access affordable housing finance in Kazakhstan
- Turkmenistan: American film experts present documentary films in Ashgabat
- US launches new effort to end drug-resistant tuberculosis in Kyrgyzstan
- Doing Business 2020 records results in Tajikistan’s reform to improve business climate
- Uzbekistan among world’s top 20 business climate improvers — WB
- Kazakhstan, Great Britain strengthening investment and economic cooperation
- Uzbekistan allows citizens to take more foreign cash abroad in further liberalization
- Kazakhstan launches production of Russia’s Kirovets tractors
- US government celebrates achievements in agriculture and water in Tajikistan
- EBRD president praises Kazakhstan’s investment potential
- Uzbekistan developing economic cooperation with India’s state of Gujarat
- Turkmenistan: US embassy awards grant to restore Silk Road site at Dayahatyn
- Turkish company plans to build a sugar refinery in Kazakhstan
- Central Asia: EU to continue support for region’s sustainable development and circular economy
- Tajikistan: US donates radiation detection equipment to Dushanbe airport
- RSF calls on Kazakhstan to stop persecuting journalists, decriminalize press offenses
- Kazakhstan: Prime minister sets tasks for attracting foreign investment
- Kazakhstan’s offshore oil and gas projects lose major foreign investors
- Kazakhstan: President cedes key powers to Leader of the Nation Nazarbayev
- New Chinese-Kazakh cement plant starts operation in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan-Czech business forum held in Shymkent
- Uzbekistan: President visits new cement plant in Surkhandarya region
- Kazakhstan, US hold first high-level meeting on economic cooperation
- IMF to locate new regional technical assistance center in Kazakhstan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Afghanistan headed for a new spiral of violence as US cancels talks with the Taliban
- Kazakhstan: Leader of the Nation Nazarbayev sets tasks for his ruling party
- First group of Afghan women arrived in Kazakhstan as part of EU-funded educational project
- Central Asia: Poverty continues to decline, but pace of poverty reduction is slowing — WB
- IAEA LEU Bank in Kazakhstan becomes operational with delivery of low enriched uranium
- Turkmenistan: US delegation builds bridges of inclusion through adaptive sports
- Turkmenistan Airlines reauthorized to resume EU operations
- Uzbekistan aims to increase fruit and vegetable export to $5 billion a year
- Air Liquide to build a nitrogen unit in Kazakhstan
- China, Turkmenistan should enhance synergy of development strategies — Chinese top legislator
- Uzbekistan to give 10-year residence permit to foreigners for $3 million investment
- Tajikistan: President proposes amnesty to mark constitution anniversary
- US ambassador urges Kazakhstan to improve rights situation
- Uzbekistan becomes full member of Turkic Council
- Tajikistan: Vloggers go on trial over secret filming of sex workers
- Kazakhstan: Sinologist jailed for treason, stripped of citizenship
- Annual European Film Festival held in Uzbekistan
- Afghanistan-UK trade and investment conference held in London
- Tajikistan labels EU-based opposition alliance as terrorist organization
- Eurasian Culture Week in London highlighted Central Asia creativity
- Kazakhstan: Economic growth reaches 4.3% in Jan-Sept
- Uzbekistan: Andijan region to hold investment forum to attract foreign investors
- Kazakhstan: Ex-president Nazarbayev rejects talk of shared power
- US experts help improve early grade reading and math skills in Uzbekistan schools
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Impact of the US-Iran confrontation on Central Asia
- Expo in Kyrgyzstan gathers US and international investors
- OSCE ambassadors visit Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: Former president Atambayev refuses to attend corruption case trial
- Kazakhstan and Mongolia hold business forum
- World Bank Group supports private sector investments in Afghanistan energy sector
- Uzbekistan: Electric bus from Belarus starts operation in Tashkent
- Kazakhstan: Nur-Sultan hosting Global Urban Tourism Summit
- Uzbekistan hosts business forum on green technologies
- IMF offers recommendations for Tajikistan’s economy
- Kazakhstan and France hold investment forum
- Kazakhstan hosts OSCE regional conference on digital technologies in combating corruption
- Number of foreign tourists to Kazakhstan annually grows 10%
- Kazakhstan and Germany hold business forum, reach investment agreements
- Uzbekistan: President orders to remove barriers to stock market development
- US blacklists Chinese companies, organizations over ‘repression’ in Xinjiang
- ADB plans $404 million to support Tajikistan’s development from 2020-2022
- Kazakhstan’s capital to buy Chinese electric buses
- Digital transformation at heart of Kyrgyzstan development strategy
- Rights groups call on Belarus not to extradite opposition activist to Tajikistan
- Tajikistan president on energy, Arab investment
- Kazakhstan’s civil aviation opening new routes
- Kazakhstan: Almaty region attracts new investments
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Turkmenistan’s gas exports hampered by geopolitical realities
- President highlights digital transformation goals for Kyrgyzstan
- OSCE-led project to strengthen green ports, connectivity in Caspian Sea region launches activities in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan: Authorities reopen case into high-profile murder of journalist
- ADB to finance construction of new hydropower plants in Uzbekistan
- World Bank Group helps Tajikistan to improve access to financial services
- IFC helps Uzbekistan improve electricity supply through public-private partnership
- Kyrgyzstan: Human rights lawyer wins UN award for battling statelessness
- Turkmenistan: President fires interior minister, orders anti-corruption drive
- Tajikistan: EBRD helps develop Dushanbe trolleybus network
- US to provide $50 million for Uzbekistan education reform
- Eurasian Economic Union developing free trade with Singapore, Iran
- EEU countries hold summit, address pressing issues
- EU-Kazakhstan High-Level Business Platform focuses on investment issues
- Kyrgyzstan: HRW demands investigation of attack on RFE/RL correspondent
- Kyrgyzstan: US embassy to co-organize first ever Franchise and Trade Expo in Bishkek
- EU supports Uzbekistan’s new agri-food development strategy
- ADB loan to help improve connectivity and road safety in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan: National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna to launch IPO of 8 more companies
- USAID to host annual Central Asia Trade Forum in Kazakhstan
- Central Asia: EU-funded BOMCA and its national partners wrap up the year, make plans for the future
- Uzbekistan and China to open new air routes
- US government donates 614,000 books to schools across Tajikistan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Afghanistan: Polls close in presidential election
- OSCE Parliamentary Assembly president visits Kyrgyzstan
- USAID donates 385,000 books to 900 schools in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan expands export of agricultural products to China
- IFC loan to help homeowners and micro enterprises in Tajikistan
- EBRD, Green Climate Fund to finance new solar plant in Kazakhstan
- Turkmenistan to merge parliament with People’s Council to form two-house legislature
- Italy’s Eni to build a 48 MW wind power plant in Kazakhstan
- EU helps to boost business climate in Kazakhstan and Central Asia
- Kazakhstan to play pivotal role in trade along China’s Belt and Road — president
- Tajikistan: Rural communities to gain better access to clean water, sanitation with World Bank support
- Afghanistan: Taliban lifts ban on WHO vaccine operations in controlled areas
- EIB, Uzbekistan take first step towards a EUR 100m investment program for Aral Sea recovery
- Chinese corp. launches a large wind power plant project in Uzbekistan
- Norway’s company to assess oil and gas areas in Kazakhstan
- World Bank outlines priorities for improving Kazakhstan’s public procurement system
- Kazakhstan president meets with US political, expert community in New York
- Exhibition to mark 25th anniversary of Kyrgyz-Swiss development cooperation
- Turkish plant expands production in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan introduces 3-year investor visa to attract foreign investment
- Migration from Turkmenistan on the rise as economic woes persist
- US calls to reject Beijing’s demands to repatriate ethnic Uyghurs to China
- Central Asia Countries, U.S. Hold C5+1 Meeting in New York
- Uzbekistan to export electricity to Afghanistan at a reduced price
- Kazakhstan: Police break up opposition rallies
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- First glimpses of Tokayev’s Kazakhstan: The listening state?
- CAREC countries move closer to regional energy market after historic meeting in Uzbekistan
- Russian oil company Lukoil opens lubricants plant in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan opens Central Asia’s first modern photometric laboratory
- Uzbekistan reforms irrigation water management and use in agriculture
- Afghanistan: Taliban must be re-integrated into society or they’ll join Daesh — report
- US to withhold $160 million in aid to Afghanistan due to government corruption
- Kazakhstan: President reshuffles officials, appoints new foreign minister
- Kazakhstan, Belarus set to increase trade, jointly enter Chinese market
- Uzbekistan plans to phase out state control of agricultural sector
- Tajikistan: Jailed lawyer receives human rights award in Warsaw
- Kazakhstan improves position in international ratings
- ADB supports reforms aimed at diversifying Kyrgyzstan’s economy
- Afghanistan: Taliban envoys visit Iran, Russia after collapse of talks with US
- US donates radiation detection equipment to Uzbekistan to be installed at Afghanistan border point
- Turkmenistan: US ambassador closes successful preservation project at Dayahatyn Caravanserai
- Uzbekistan: Tashkent joins European Mobility Week and Car-Free Day
- EBRD, EU help improve water services in Kyrgyzstan’s small municipalities
- One dead as clashes erupt on Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border
- Turkmenistan: Former trade minister jailed on corruption charges
- Kazakhstan and France developing agricultural cooperation
- EBRD and Switzerland help improve water services in Tajikistan
- EBRD extends renewable energy program for Kazakhstan
- Taliban restores security guarantees to Red Cross staff in Afghanistan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- China taking Big Brother to Central Asia
- Uzbekistan applies for membership in Turkic Council
- Feminist group denied registration in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan joins #EUBeachCleanup global campaign to clean Issyk-Kul beach
- EU steps up support to prevent violent extremism, radicalization in Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan hosts 3rd international trade exhibition ‘South-Expo 2019’
- Uzbekistan introduces 7-day visa-free travel for Chinese citizens starting in 2020
- Kazakhstan president outlines priorities of Kazakh-Chinese economic cooperation
- Kazakhstan and China to develop comprehensive strategic partnership
- ADB helps Afghanistan to improve water resources, enhance agricultural productivity
- Tajikistan: Independent news agency facing ‘apparently targeted disruption’
- Kazakhstan: ADB-supported irrigation project to improve agricultural productivity
- Kazakhstan: UAE-based company to invest in 1000-hectare orchards in Almaty region
- Uzbekistan aims to process its entire cotton domestically by 2025
- Foreigners allowed to buy Uzbekistan banks’ shares without central bank consent
- Kazakhstan: Government adopts National Plan for implementation of president’s address
- Kazakhstan to open ‘The Great Steppe: history and culture” exhibition in Turkey
- Turkmenistan to produce computers together with China
- Kazakhstan plans to toughen import regulations
- Tajikistan launches second unit of giant Rogun hydropower plant
- Uzbekistan creates Nukus free economic zone in Karakalpakstan
- Uzbekistan outlines agricultural development strategy
- Afghanistan: US cancels peace talks with Taliban
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Uzbekistan increasingly turns to China for development loans
- Go Viral festival will be held for the first time in Tajikistan
- EBRD Board Directors to visit Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan: Locals will get 95% of jobs created by joint projects with China — official
- Kazakhstan attracted $330 billion of foreign investment since independence
- Kazakhstan and Ukraine developing economic cooperation
- EBRD offers new financing opportunities for Uzbekistan exporters and importers
- France’s Orano to develop uranium mining projects in Uzbekistan
- Turkish company plans to produce leather products in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan approves roadmap to promote non-oil exports
- Tajikistan joins initiative to improve health and nutrition of women and children
- Kazakhstan: People protest Chinese influence for third day
- China-Pakistan Economic Corridor may be expanded to Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: Former US envoys warn hasty troop pullout could trigger ‘total civil war’
- Kazakhstan: Hundreds hold anti-Chinese rally in Zhanaozen for second day
- Uzbekistan: Government to subsidize purchase of solar power devices by citizens
- Kazakhstan increasing grain exports to Turkey, Georgia, Italy, Spain
- Kazakhstan: Protesters demand president cancel visit to China
- Afghanistan: US, Taliban reach agreement ‘in principle’
- Kazakhstan president pledges more democratic freedoms in first state of nation address
- EU and UNESCO support protection of World Heritage sites in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan is the second most integrated EEU economy after Belarus
- EEU largest online retailer to open trade and logistics centers in Kazakhstan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan’s revolving doors of justice and politics
- In rural Kyrgyzstan, Coding Caravan encourages girls’ leadership and entrepreneurship
- Kazakhstan: Activists march for democratic changes as police stay on sidelines
- World Bank says funds used in line with objectives of its Xinjiang vocational education project
- Kyrgyzstan: Arrest warrant issued for son of former deputy minister who detained Atambayev
- Kazakhstan hosts Nazarbayev Prize for Nuclear Weapon Free World and Global Security ceremony
- Trump says US to retain military presence in Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan: Jailed opposition politicians Tekebaev, Chotonov transferred to house arrest
- President of Belarus to visit Kazakhstan in October to boost cooperation
- OSCE and Tajikistan outline priorities for cooperation in 2020
- Kazakhstan hosts event to foster cooperation among nuclear-weapon-free zones
- Uzbekistan: Tashkent police reject claims of forcing men with beards to shave
- Kyrgyzstan: Former deputy interior minister who detained Atambayev placed under house arrest
- Tajikistan: Imports exceed exports threefold
- Kazakhstan: Government approves Forecast of Socio-Economic Development for 2020-2024
- Turkmenistan president completes state visit to Singapore
- Turkmenistan: People detained just for standing at ATMs as country faces cash-flow problem
- Norwegian ‘International Business’ report features Kazakhstan
- Business circles of Turkmenistan and Singapore discuss cooperation
- Uzbekistan: Men reportedly detained, forced to shave beards
- OSCE strengthens Kyrgyzstan’s capacities to prevent, counter use of Internet for terrorist purposes
- Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek to host global technology conference
- Uzbekistan moves toward a new, more open economy — World Bank
- Kazakhstan organizes cultural press tour for foreign journalists
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Will Kazakhstan’s giveaway solve debt disease or postpone it?
- Tajikistan: Ceremony marks start of rehabilitation at Qairokkum hydropower plant
- Afghanistan: US, Taliban may sign peace agreement within next few days
- Uzbekistan: President urges political parties to actively participate in democratic processes
- Kyrgyzstan: Former prosecutor-general under house arrest on corruption charge
- Kazakhstan and Germany to expand investment cooperation
- Apple, Google, Mozilla take steps to protect Internet users in Kazakhstan
- International Silk Road expedition explores Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan: EBRD supports local producer of hygienic goods
- Kazakhstan hosts C5+1 high-level discussion between US, Central Asia states
- Kyrgyzstan: Supreme Court orders retrial of opposition politician Tekebaev
- US investment in Kazakhstan on the rise, bilateral trade grows
- Kazakhstan: AIFC investment residency program to attract new wave of foreign capital
- Uzbekistan moves to floating exchange rate for national currency
- Kazakhstan’s national atomic company to extend uranium production cuts
- US provides additional humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan: Former President Atambayev’s pretrial detention extended
- US under secretary of state travels to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan: Ex-presidential candidate Babanov questioned in bank takeover case
- Uzbekistan: New criminal case launched against late president’s daughter
- Afghanistan: President vows to ‘eliminate’ Islamic State havens
- Uzbekistan: USAID supports first Forum of Public Councils in Tashkent
- Kazakhstan updating National Export Strategy
- Tajikistan: EU, Caritas Germany help provide vocational training for persons with disabilities
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- European Union provides €59 million to improve rural livelihoods in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan: Court fines activist charged with ‘inciting ethnic tensions’
- Kyrgyzstan: Jailed former PM hospitalized with stroke symptoms
- Kyrgyzstan: Former President Atambayev remanded in custody, wife under investigation
- Uzbekistan: President boasts spike in investment, economic growth
- Former British ambassador appointed Kyrgyzstan’s business ombudsman
- Afghanistan: UK and EU reaffirm support to presidential elections
- Uzbekistan takes new steps to boost tourism industry
- Uzbekistan allows land privatization
- Kazakhstan adopts roadmap on dairy industry standards, to create more export opportunities
- OSCE, RSF call on Kyrgyzstan to allow opposition TV channel resume broadcasting
- Kyrgyzstan: Two more charges brought against former President Atambayev
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to bolster cooperation with Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan and China conclude joint counter-terrorism exercises
- OSCE supports Pamir Invest Forum in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Region
- Kyrgyzstan: Former President Atambayev accused of murder, other crimes
- Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, China plan to launch new transport corridor
- Kazakhstan’s investment opportunities presented at Caspian Economic Forum in Turkmenistan
- Kazakhstan: Protesters demand release of jailed politicians, activists
- Turkmenistan president takes part in First Caspian Economic Forum
- Cluster development lags behind in Eurasian Development Bank member countries
- Leading travel bloggers promote tourism in Central Asia
- Russian energy giants show interest in developing Turkmenistan oil and gas fields
- Kazakhstan, UK reaffirm commitment to strategic partnership
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- EBRD promotes flight safety in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: USAID supports photo exhibition on HIV control efforts among vulnerable citizens
- Former presidential candidate Babanov returns to Kyrgyzstan from Moscow
- Prime ministers of Eurasian Economic Union countries meet in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan: Former President Atambayev charged with corruption
- Kyrgyzstan hosts OSCE-supported Central Asian seminar on border delimitation practices
- Tajikistan and China start military drills in Gorno-Badakhshan province
- Kyrgyzstan’s former President Atambayev arrested
- Kyrgyzstan: Former president under siege in his compound near Bishkek
- Regional Explosive Hazards Training Centre inaugurated in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan halts Internet surveillance plan
- Kyrgyzstan: Special forces fail to arrest former president Atambayev
- Kyrgyzstan: Government suspends operation of Chinese mining company
- Kyrgyzstan and China hold joint counter-terrorism exercise
- Kazakhstan: Authorities finishing testing of web traffic spy tool
- Afghanistan: Taliban threatens violent disruption of presidential election
- Kyrgyzstan: Locals clash with Chinese mining company workers
- Uzbekistan attracts $5.6 billion of foreign investments and loans in H1 2019
- US supports soybean production in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan: President shuts down notorious prison
- Kyrgyzstan: Warrant issued for former chairwoman of State Registration Service
- Xinjiang sees an increase in trade with SCO member states
- Uzbekistan president orders new measures for small business support
- Afghanistan ups fruit exports, looks to Russia and Kazakhstan markets
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Russian PM to travel to Turkmenistan amid rumors of Turkmen leader’s death
- Kazakhstan and Japan explore new investment opportunities
- Kazakhstan-China oil pipeline transports over 5 million tons of crude in H1 2019
- Canadian, Latvian companies to build beef production and processing facility in Kazakhstan
- EU and FAO boost early warning system on climate in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan sets up Industry Development Fund
- Kazakhstan: Roadmap for automotive industry development to double production by 2024
- Uzbekistan, Belarus identify priorities for cooperation
- Afghanistan: Illegal mining reduces lapis lazuli prices
- New horse trekking route to draw adventure tourists to Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan: Former deputy transport minister sentenced to 14 years for bribe
- Kyrgyzstan, US hold successful annual bilateral consultations
- Uzbekistan, Belarus hold first forum of regions
- Kazakhstan: LRT will improve public transport system in Nur-Sultan
- Kyrgyzstan: Jailed rights activist’s life sentence upheld again
- Tajikistan: Caritas Germany, with EU financial support, organizes summer camp for children with disabilities
- Kazakhstan relocates citizens from labor-surplus to labor-deficient regions
- Turkmenistan: Authorities detain those spreading rumors about president’s death
- Pompeo says Trump wants to ‘reduce’ foreign troops in Afghanistan by November 2020
- Kyrgyzstan: Conflicts of local population with mining companies continue
- Ambassadors from 50 countries at UN support China on Xinjiang-related issues
- Improving corporate governance is critical for sound financial system in Tajikistan — World Bank
- Taliban says ‘no agreement’ on direct talks with Afghanistan government
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Central Asia: Women entrepreneurs lack intensive state support
- Uzbekistan president to make first official visit to Belarus
- Work started on construction of railway linking Afghanistan, Turkmenistan
- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan presidents hold talks amid border tensions
- Uzbekistan faces mounting economic costs from staying out of Russian-led Eurasian Union
- Uzbekistan to introduce new system to develop small business
- British Embassy in Ashgabat supports entrepreneurship in Turkmenistan
- Putin meets Atambayev in Moscow, says Kyrgyzstan needs political stability
- US shares best practices to increase Turkmenistan’s high-value fruit production
- Uzbekistan begins negotiation process for accession to WTO
- Kazakhstan: Jailed former uranium tycoon denied early release again
- Uzbek president’s office statement contradicts rumors of Turkmen leader’s death
- Kyrgyzstan: Atambayev leaves for Moscow from Russian air base aboard private jet
- False report of leader’s death shows Turkmenistan now a serious problem for Moscow
- EBRD, EU and EIB help improve water services in Kyrgyzstan’s small communities
- US investment companies show interest in Uzbekistan’s securities market
- EU, UNDP to help Afghan women attend university in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
- World Bank welcomes Uzbekistan’s reform commitment, increases support
- Tensions erupt on Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border over raising of national flags
- Kyrgyzstan: Deputy interior minister visits Atambayev’s compound after he ignores subpoenas
- OPIC negotiates financing of projects in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan to transform largest state-owned enterprise, with ADB support
- Afghanistan facing strong headwinds to economic growth, World Bank says
- Reports on Turkmenistan president’s death are ‘fake’ — Turkmen diplomat
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: OSCE starts 2019 Issyk-Kul Lake clean-up campaigns with local communities
- Uzbekistan and France cooperate in tourism industry
- Swedish aid group reopens health centers in Afghanistan province
- Uzbekistan plans to sell most of its power plants to private investors
- Kazakhstan: IMF projects 3.8% growth in 2019, with recovery in oil sector
- US supports Afghanistan-Uzbekistan cross-border trade
- Air cargo route links China’s Xinjiang and Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan expanding trade, investment ties with South Korea
- Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan open transit highway
- Kazakhstan: Union leader sentenced to seven years in prison
- Afghanistan: Swedish aid group closes health centers after Taliban threats
- Does Kyrgyzstan need another state management company?
- Turkmenistan to build Ashgabat City compound
- US government helps reduce tuberculosis cases in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: Jailed rights activist’s new retrial postponed
- Russian KAMAZ to organize production of components for trucks in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan: Economic growth in first half of 2019 reached 4.1%
- EBRD supports expansion of Kazakhstan food producer
- WB project to help improve access to electricity in Tajikistan’s remote regions
- Kyrgyzstan: USAID, Health Ministry agree on further cooperation in TB control
- Kyrgyzstan: Arrest warrant issued for former Defense Council secretary
- Tajikistan: 9 new hotels to be constructed in Dushanbe
- Kyrgyzstan to host OSCE Central Asia Media Conference
- Central Asia exceeds global suicide rate
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to increase trade to $1 billion by 2020
- China, Russia, US discuss Afghanistan peace process
- Kazakhstan: Protesters in Almaty demand release of Xinjiang activist
- Kazakhstan, Tajikistan expanding trade and economic cooperation
- Uzbekistan foreign minister meets with British MPs, minister for investment
- OSCE empowers Tajikistan women through homestay business training
- Premature troops pullout from Afghanistan would be ‘strategic mistake’ — US general
- Kazakhstan: Youth-Friendly Health Centre opens in Almaty
- Automobile manufacturing on the rise in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan targets at increase in foreign investment
- EU holds anti-corruption conference in Afghanistan
- OSCE, SCO, EU explore strengthening synergies and cooperation in Central Asia
- Valmont Industries to implement agro-industrial projects in Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan, China to conduct military drills in Gorno-Badakhshan province
- Kazakhstan, Slovakia to strengthen interaction within OSCE and bilateral formats
- Afghanistan: Taliban, Afghan delegates agree on roadmap to peace but discrepancies remain
- Kyrgyzstan: Former president refuses to obey subpoena in unspecified investigation
- Uzbekistan: President orders to increase car production
- Afghanistan: Doha meeting may lead to direct talks between Kabul, Taliban
- Kazakhstan: EDB, DBK to finance construction of Saryarka gas pipeline
- Tajikistan: Food poisoning kills 14 prison inmates
- Central Asia: FEZs need attractive and stable conditions for investors
- South Korea starts program to hire seasonal agriculture workers from Kyrgyzstan
- Afghanistan: Kabul sees intra-Afghan dialogue in Qatar as progress in peace process
- Kyrgyzstan hosts EU-Central Asia foreign ministers’ meeting
- Kyrgyzstan, EU sign new Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement
- Kazakhstan: Dozens detained in anti-government protests in major cities
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Document establishing European Union Delegation in Turkmenistan signed in Ashgabat
- Air freight route links China’s Xinjiang and Kazakhstan
- EFSD to provide $2 million grant for Tajikistan’s Caravan of Health project
- Tajikistan: EFSD to provide $40 million for Nurek hydro plant rehabilitation
- European Union and Central Asia need stronger partnership — EU officials
- Kazakhstan signs agreements on Dunga, Abay fields with Total, ENI
- Second Chinese law firm opens its office in Uzbekistan
- Russia’s Gazprom signs 5-year natural-gas import deal with Turkmenistan
- ADB’s loan opens new clean energy pathway in Kazakhstan
- Central Asia: Delayed consultations, suspended integration
- IMF welcomes the improved macroeconomic and financial conditions in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan and US aim at strengthening economic partnership
- Germany and Qatar to co-host intra-Afghan talks
- Kyrgyzstan: Rights groups urge EU officials to demand release of jailed activist Askarov
- Innovative FAO tool helps Tajikistan tackle antimicrobial resistance
- Kazakhstan PM discusses investment cooperation with ambassadors of EU countries
- Uzbekistan to strengthen social safety nets to protect the poorest and most vulnerable, with World Bank support
- Uzbekistan to provide $45 million for Afghanistan power transmission project
- American business has invested $47 billion in Kazakhstan
- Central Asia may experience considerable losses due to climate change
- Turkmenistan opens new synthetic gasoline plant
- Kazakhstan: Foreign workers at Tengiz oil field evacuated after brawl
- Kyrgyzstan: Forum helps local suppliers find partners in mining business
- EU SWITCH-Asia Programme will be launched in Central Asia
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Italian company considers launching agricultural machinery production in Kazakhstan
- Japanese, Chinese investors interested in expanding investment in Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan and Belarus ink agreement on strategic cooperation
- South Korean company launches livestock GPS tracking project in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan to help socially vulnerable citizens reduce bank loan debts
- First Tashkent–Tamchy flight brings tourists from Uzbekistan to Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul
- Kyrgyzstan: Parliament votes to strip Atambayev of ex-president’s status, immunity
- New US ambassador to Turkmenistan begins his service
- Turkmenistan airline expands geography of international flights
- Central Asia states strengthen preparedness to respond to deliberate use of biological weapons
- US provides assistance to preserve historical heritage in Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan: Former prosecutor-general sentenced to 10 years for corruption
- Kyrgyzstan: Ex-President Atambayev rejects accusations ahead of vote on his immunity
- OSCE promotes dialogue between junior diplomats from Central Asia, Afghanistan, Mongolia
- Kazakhstan, UNESCO to establish International Center for Rapprochement of Cultures
- ADB and Uzbekistan renew development partnership with new 5-year strategy
- Afghanistan: US hopes to have a peace deal with Taliban before Sept 1 — Pompeo
- Kyrgyzstan: Tax revenues declining, unemployment and poverty persist
- Uzbekistan to host FAO Regional Conference for Europe and Central Asia in 2020
- Experts discuss industrial and technological priorities in Kyrgyzstan
- Switzerland to send $133 million belonging to Gulnara Karimova to Uzbekistan
- Second Summer University on Disaster Risk Management held in Tajikistan
- Foreign investors created 6 thousand jobs in Kazakhstan in 2018
- Kazakhstan: Foreign Ministry reports on measures to attract foreign investment
- Uzbekistan, South Korea expand economic cooperation
- Integrating the Eurasian Union and China’s Belt and Road: A bridge too far?
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- US removes Uzbekistan from list of countries with worst religious tolerance
- US government recognizes Kyrgyzstan’s progress in countering trafficking in persons
- FAO strengthens partnership with civil society in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan’s financial hub seeks Chinese investment in regional projects
- World Bank to help increase opportunities for Tajikistan’s vulnerable communities
- Kyrgyzstan: Lawmakers vote to strip ex-President Atambayev of immunity
- Kyrgyzstan: Authorities investigate heroin smuggled to Europe as ‘Turkish sweets’
- First US Commerce Department certified trade mission visits Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan seeks more economic cooperation with Norway
- Afghanistan: Daesh is another instrument of Pakistan’s army, ex-Indian envoy says
- Afghanistan: US seeking ‘peace agreement’ with Taliban, not ‘withdrawal’ deal — US envoy
- Success of China’s Belt & Road Initiative depends on deep policy reforms, WB study finds
- Frozen fish imports from Kazakhstan grow through China’s key land port
- ADB convenes Uzbekistan banks to expand trade finance opportunities
- ADB vice-president reaffirms commitment to Tajikistan’s development
- Central Asia countries make improvements in fisheries and aquaculture
- Turkmenistan: President appoints son provincial governor
- European Council adopts a new EU strategy for Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: Commission brings corruption charges against ex-President Atambayev
- Fast-paced reforms lead to improvements in ease of doing business in Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan, Turkmenistan sign documents on railway, energy, and marble trading
- Xi’s Central Asia trip cements regional cooperation, Chinese FM says
- Tajikistan and China sign agreements to boost cooperation
- Kyrgyzstan-China win-win cooperation enters a new stage
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Uzbekistan’s economic transformation gets new boost with $500m World Bank loan
- Tajikistan: Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly prison riot
- Shanghai Cooperation Organization holds summit in Kyrgyzstan
- EU shares its experience on water quality management with Central Asia
- Kazakhstan-Malaysian Business Council office opened in Kuala Lumpur
- UN criticizes Kazakhstan’s crackdown on election protesters
- Kyrgyzstan and China to deepen strategic partnership
- China-Tajikistan friendship expects ‘brighter future’ — Chinese president
- Turkish investor to build two large public health facilities in Kazakhstan
- China and Kyrgyzstan presidents speak for deepening inter-state cooperation
- Tokayev inaugurated as Kazakhstan’s new president
- Kazakhstan: Waking up to reform
- China president on the relations with Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan: Oil production at Kashagan reaches record high level
- Kazakhstan: Government reports steady economic growth in 5 months
- Central Asia countries aim to make tourism sustainable and profitable business
- Kazakh Invest presents Kazakhstan’s investment opportunities at SPIEF-2019
- Kazakhstan: More arrests in Almaty overnight amid protests against election results
- Kazakhstan: Tokayev wins snap presidential election that ‘showed scant respect for democratic standards’
- EEU problems and prospects discussed at St. Petersburg Economic Forum
- European Union and Tajikistan hold Cooperation Committee meeting
- Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev’s chosen presidential successor leads exit poll as hundreds of protesters detained
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan to gain better primary health care with World Bank support
- Uzbekistan: OSCE supports study visit of women farmers to the Netherlands
- Kazakhstan: Mothers’ press conference disrupted in Almaty ahead of snap presidential elections
- The EU’s new Central Asia strategy: What does it mean for trade?
- Kazakhstan digitalizing the market of tourist services
- EEU member countries, China agree on cooperation in the movement of goods
- Tajikistan and Iran resume air communication as bilateral ties improve
- East Kazakhstan close to reaching the ambitious UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals
- Austrian Raiffeisen Bank to hold a banking summit in Uzbekistan
- World Bank to help improve water supply, wastewater services in Tajikistan’s capital
- Afghanistan: US, Europe special envoys hope peace talks to start soon
- Kyrgyzstan: Former chief prosecutor arrested
- Afghanistan: Half of rural population faces food insecurity — UN report
- Japanese companies show interest in investing in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan simplifies visa regime for tourists
- Why Kazakhstan’s presidential elections matter
- Almost two million people reportedly left Turkmenistan over 10 years
- Kazakh Invest opens representative office in India
- Kyrgyzstan: Former official of president’s office arrested on corruption charges
- Kyrgyzstan: Investment forum addresses problems of local SMEs
- Countries scale up ecosystem restoration in Central Asia and Caucasus
- Kazakhstan launches construction of int’l tourist complex on Caspian coast
- Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev’s initiatives discussed at expert event
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- New economic corridor between Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan taking shape
- Kazakhstan hosts OSCE Forum on Internet Development in Central Asia
- European Council president visits Central Asia
- Central Asia: Finding a balance between economy needs and higher education objectives
- Uzbekistan: World Bank to help strengthen access to and quality of early childhood education
- Kazakhstan ex-President Nazarbayev becomes honorary senator
- Afghanistan politicians, Taliban cite ‘tremendous progress’ at Moscow talks
- Kyrgyzstan: Motor fuel smuggling entails huge state-budget losses
- Kazakhstan’s First President Nazarbayev becomes honorary chairman of EEU Economic Commission
- OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to observe Kazakhstan’s early presidential election
- German president meets with Uzbekistan business people
- German president visits Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan: China’s ambassador rejects Xinjiang crackdown allegations
- Russia hosts Taliban delegates, calls for withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan
- EU and Kyrgyzstan discuss cooperation on human rights
- Russian defense minister, Tajikistan president discuss military cooperation in Dushanbe
- Kyrgyzstan: 65% stunting reduction in Naryn oblast
- Kazakhstan and Turkey to strengthen cooperation, increase investments
- Afghanistan politicians, Taliban negotiators expected to meet in Moscow
- Kyrgyzstan: Atambayev at risk as law allowing prosecution of ex-presidents comes into force
- Uzbekistan to subsidize domestic exporters
- World Bank supports public financial management, state-owned enterprises reforms in Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan addresses youth employment issue amid growing unemployment
- From Samarkand to Seoul: Central Asian migrants in South Korea
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Tajikistan: Caritas Germany promotes social work development in GBAO
- ADB to help modernize Uzbekistan’s railway fleet
- Uzbekistan: First Chinese law firm opens in Tashkent
- US largest meat producer eyeing expansion into Kazakhstan
- Lukashenko proposes Kazakhstan supply oil to Belarus
- EBRD and EU support water supply system in Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD and Kyrgyzstan launch Climate Finance Centre
- Share of SMEs in Kazakhstan’s GDP reached 28.3% in 2018
- New European Union grant to strengthen water and energy security in Central Asia
- Number of IS-Khorasan branch exceeds 5,000 militants in Afghanistan — US intelligence report
- EBRD pledges fresh funds to support SMEs in Kyrgyzstan
- ADB private sector deal to promote solar power in Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan developing special economic and industrial zones
- OSCE helps open Entrepreneurship Support Centres in south Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan: Opposition party accuses authorities of concealing truth about deadly prison riot
- Afghanistan: Corruption remains substantial obstacle to peace and prosperity — UN report
- OSCE chairperson-in-office opens new OSCE premises in Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan and China agree to strengthen strategic partnership
- Tajikistan: Opposition members among 32 killed in prison riot
- Navoi hosts the first Uzbekistan–American–Canadian business forum
- Agreements for $9 billion signed at Kazakhstan Global Investment Roundtable
- Turkmenistan leader hails ‘generous’ harvest despite food shortages
- Kazakhstan: Activists say they’re being conscripted as punishment for political activities
- Central Asia: modern public transport to solve traffic challenges, benefit environment
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: American rock brass band Aberdeen in Bishkek and Osh
- ADB vice-president reaffirms commitment to partnership with Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan: Prominent sinologist arrested on high treason charges
- Uzbekistan: President declares Navoi region free economic zone
- Kazakhstan holds XII Astana Economic Forum
- C5+1 Security Working Group meets in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: Legislation allowing prosecution of ex-presidents signed into law
- Uzbekistan and China hold joint anti-terror exercise
- Uzbekistan hosts Central Asian Internet Governance Forum
- Afghanistan: Foreign ministry welcomes UN sanctions on Daesh
- European Commission adopts new strategy on Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: Ex-health minister detained over early prison release of notorious crime boss
- Kyrgyzstan: Notorious former customs boss steps out of the shadows
- IFC supports horticulture in Kazakhstan
- Delegation of the State of Mississippi visits Uzbekistan
- US sanctions on Iran disrupt Afghanistan trade through Chabahar port
- Kazakhstan: Economic growth reaches 4%
- Central Asian Salafi-Jihadi and Al Qaeda: From Bayat to global Jihad
- Kazakhstan: International observers accredited for snap presidential election
- Turkmenistan president, Iran’s foreign minister discuss cooperation priorities
- Afghanistan: UN concerned over increase of violence during Ramadhan
- Islamic State reportedly claims it has established a ‘province’ in India
- Uzbekistan: Government says it has unblocked independent websites
- Kyrgyzstan: SCO marathon ‘Run the Silk Road’ held at Lake Issyk-Kul
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Uranium mining in Kyrgyzstan: danger or benefit?
- Afghanistan: Traders turn to Iran’s Chabahar port despite problems
- Over 200 Kazakhstan citizens linked to Islamic State repatriated from Syria
- Uzbekistan needs quality jobs to support sustainable growth and development — ADB
- World Bank endorses new Country Partnership Framework for Tajikistan
- Afghanistan: Sixth round of US-Taliban talks ends in Doha
- International organizations highly assess the Turkmen Lake project
- Kazakhstan: Protesters detained as social media and news websites blocked
- Afghanistan: Taliban attacks US aid group’s Kabul offices
- Kyrgyzstan: FAO pilot program enabling farmers to supply food for schoolchildren’s meals
- Uzbekistan to bolster jewelry industry
- Turkmenistan to build a new village in Karakum Desert
- Turkmenistan, Russia hold intergovernmental commission meeting
- Kyrgyzstan’s best exporters announced
- UNECE, FAO take stock of scarce woody resources of Central Asia, Caucasus
- Kazakhstan allows opposition candidate to run in election, while nabbing democracy activists
- Kazakhstan to hold 12th Astana Economic Forum
- EU Delegation to Kazakhstan presents ‘Taste of Europe’ cookbook
- Kazakhstan boosts public-private partnership in economic and social spheres
- Representatives of all nuclear-weapon-free zones to meet in Kazakhstan
- US delegation concludes annual consultations in Turkmenistan
- Afghanistan goods on the way to UK via Lapis Lazuli transport route
- Afghanistan: Special Forces kill leader in charge of Daesh activities in Central Asia
- Solving environmental, and economic, problems in Central Asia
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: US Embassy publishes Bishkek air quality data
- Tajikistan: Western diplomats urge government to allow open Internet
- Tajikistan hosts OSCE-supported World Press Freedom Day conference
- Kazakhstan government sides with banks in rogue fees scandal
- Uzbekistan aims to increase production of processed, export-oriented goods
- ‘Mass surveillance app’ used to target Muslims in China’s Xinjiang, HRW says
- Kazakhstan: Courts issue jail sentences against May Day protesters
- Nur-Sultan hosts Kazakhstan-Hungarian business forum
- OSCE supports launch of Tajikistan’s Trade Portal
- Afghanistan: NATO’s mission stops releasing war data
- Kazakhstan: Protesters call for presidential election boycott
- Tajikistan repatriates Islamic State children from Iraq
- Eurasian Economic Union PMs discuss elimination of barriers to mutual trade
- US religion report assails China over abuses of Muslims, calls Uzbekistan ‘country of particular concern’
- UN chief held ‘frank’ talks with China president on Xinjiang’s Uyghurs
- Kazakhstan: Government program to improve quality of life in rural areas
- Kyrgyzstan: New key step to tackle Central Asia’s harmful uranium legacy
- Kazakhstan: Activist jailed for people-power banner citing constitution
- Eight nominees submit applications to run for president in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan: Navoi to host international business forum
- Turkmenistan, Great Britain boost trade and economic cooperation
- At Belt and Road forum, Kazakhstan signs investment agreements with China companies
- Turkmenistan: Development of renewable energy sector focus of OSCE-supported discussion
- Kyrgyzstan: Passport tender scandal casts doubts on country’s digitalization drive
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan aims to be in the forefront of digitalization in Central Asia
- EBRD, Green Climate Fund finance solar power plant in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan issues new coins featuring Latin-based alphabet
- Kazakhstan: Only registered opposition party boycotts snap presidential election
- Uzbekistan fully supports China’s Belt and Road initiative
- China’s Xi says his $1 trillion Belt and Road project to enhance int’l trade
- China, Russia, US discuss Afghanistan peace in Moscow
- Central Asia: FAO project aims to reduce contamination, promote sound use of pesticides
- New EU-supported project for livestock development launched in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan’s former lawmaker gets 10 years in prison in Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan: Civilian casualties down; coalition forces killed more than Taliban
- China’s military base in Tajikistan: What does it mean?
- Prime ministers of Kazakhstan and Hungary discuss increasing investment cooperation
- Tajikistan: President cancels government move to increase Internet rates
- Moscow to host Russia-China-US meeting on Afghanistan peace
- Kazakhstan: Ruling party nominates Tokayev for president
- Uzbekistan president to visit China, attend Belt and Road forum
- Kazakhstan sets up Coordination Council to attract new wave of investment
- Kazakhstan and South Korea hold investment forum
- Tajikistan to keep high growth rate while running infrastructure projects — EDB
- USAID-supported modern apparel factory opens in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan: Hyundai Kazakh-Korean car plant to be built in Almaty
- Turkmenistan at the bottom of World Press Freedom Index
- Nazarbayev’s departure triggering new Russian exodus from Kazakhstan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Eurasian Economic Union: Results, challenges and hopes
- Uzbekistan to create most favorable conditions for South Korean business
- Prevalence of hospital acquired infection significantly reduced in Kyrgyzstan
- Gazprom resumes imports from Turkmenistan after a long halt
- Regular feeder service on Trans-Caspian route launched from Kazakhstan’s Aktau port
- Kazakhstan: Foreign journalists visit Altynkol station, Khorgos SEZ
- OSCE-supported Customs Training Centre in Kyrgyzstan gets new int’l status
- Peace talks with Afghan Taliban and its implications for Pakistan
- Turkmenistan, Republic of Korea to expand trade, economic cooperation
- In Turkmenistan, OSCE PA special representative builds parliamentary dialogue
- Tajikistan and Russia to continue security cooperation
- Kazakhstan to increase non-primary exports to $32 billion by 2022
- EBRD in first syndicated loan for Kazakhstan microfinance group
- Kyrgyzstan: 2018 Human Rights Report highlights positive developments
- Kyrgyzstan: Experts discuss a sustainable model for extractive industries
- Germany interested to invest in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan agree on joint projects
- Afghanistan invites to invest in its mining projects
- Russia’s Gazprom resumes buying Turkmenistan’s natural gas
- Afghanistan: Former warlord says ‘no doubt’ Pakistan ‘supports’ Taliban
- Kazakhstan to build logistics centers in Iran ports for exports to Gulf countries
- Uzbekistan promotes a healthy lifestyle of its citizens
- Turkmenistan needs to speed up market-oriented reforms, build human capital — IMF
- To improve school education, Kyrgyzstan needs to focus on its quality and innovation
- Fugitive former presidential candidate cancels return to Kyrgyzstan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Uzbekistan: President’s daughter appointed deputy head of state media agency
- Afghanistan starts exploration for lithium to attract investment in its mining
- In ‘Great Game Lite,’ Russia and China compete for influence in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan expects economic growth due to short-term factors in 2019 — EDB
- WHO welcomes Turkmenistan efforts to popularize healthy lifestyle
- Afghanistan: Taliban announce ‘ban’ on WHO and Red Cross
- Uzbekistan rejects allegations of torture against former chief prosecutor
- Kazakhstan: Government reports steady economic growth in first quarter
- Kazakhstan: Ruling party expected to announce presidential candidate on April 23
- Uzbekistan and Austria expand economic cooperation
- Kazakhstan: Tokayev primed as shoo-in for snap presidential election
- Water saving eco-marathons start in Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan: Former opposition member jailed for 15 years after return from Russia
- Uzbekistan: Former chief prosecutor at risk of torture while on trial, Amnesty says
- Kazakhstan: Snap presidential election scheduled for June 9
- Dutch company expands greenhouse project in Kazakhstan
- EBRD, EIB and EU support water supply improvements in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan joins China-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway corridor
- Kazakhstan hosts meeting on China–Europe-China rail transportation
- Afghanistan: Kabul to send delegates to ‘exchange views’ with Taliban in Qatar
- Uzbekistan to develop chemical industry, make it attractive to investors
- Kazakhstan aims to increase agricultural exports to Muslim countries
- Xinjiang building slaughterhouse to import live cattle from Kazakhstan
- Central Asia: Labor migration, remittances and shortage of specialists
- China will have military bases in Central Asia within five years, Russian expert says
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- US-Kyrgyzstan partnership against tuberculosis paves way to end epidemic
- Kyrgyzstan and EU take stock of development cooperation, investment
- American company to build a hybrid breeding center in Kazakhstan
- Qatar Mining Company looks to invest in Kazakhstan deposits
- Afghanistan and Belarus sign economic cooperation agreement
- Kyrgyzstan: Bill preserves immunity from prosecution for ex-presidents
- Russia’s LUKOIL to explore and develop Zhenis block in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan: President’s brother quits Atambayev’s party amid split
- ADB convenes Kyrgyzstan banks to enhance trade finance opportunities
- Uzbekistan growth to improve further to 5.2% in 2019 — ADB
- Infrastructure development key to Afghanistan’s growth — ADB
- Kazakhstan’s economic growth to slightly moderate in 2019-2020 — ADB
- Tajikistan needs to diversify production, exports to improve economic resilience — ADB
- WCO, OSCE train Central Asia customs in preventing illicit trafficking of cultural heritage
- Eight entrepreneurs win funding to start businesses in Kyrgyzstan
- American music group completes tour in Turkmenistan
- Kyrgyzstan uses solar power, youth education to improve forests
- Turkmenistan: Ashgabat residents install satellite dishes on the ground
- Uzbekistan to build 25 solar power plants by 2030
- Uzbekistan, EU discuss cooperation, Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan’s foreign debt on the rise
- Kazakhstan, Spain discuss deepening of strategic partnership
- Uzbekistan ready to host talks between Afghanistan government and Taliban
- Rights watchdog urges Kyrgyzstan to drop charges against anti-Putin protesters
- China’s plan for railway to Uzbekistan is transforming Central Asian geopolitics
- Kyrgyzstan, Russia sign deals worth $6 billion during Putin’s visit
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- China thanks Kazakhstan for ‘support’ of Muslim crackdown in Xinjiang
- Uzbekistan’s first competitively tendered solar project receives global interest
- EDB, Rusprom, Transcom to develop integrated e-government system in Kyrgyzstan
- EDB, Russian–Kyrgyz Development Fund may become strategic investors in RSK Bank
- Kyrgyzstan: ADB supports modernization of Uch-Kurgan hydropower plant
- Failure to reintegrate 60,000 Taliban threat to Afghanistan peace deal, report says
- Bishkek, Moscow agree to expand Russian military base in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan, Russia expand scientific and educational partnership
- US lifts Uzbekistan cotton ban
- EU to assist Uzbekistan in combating consequences of Aral Sea tragedy
- Kazakhstan and Council of Europe discuss new-phase cooperation
- US-funded broadcaster under scrutiny for enabling Tajikistan’s strongman rule
- Kazakhstan: New industrialization should meet new challenges — PM
- Media watchdogs urge Turkmenistan to stop ‘systematic harassment’ of independent journalists
- EU supports Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process
- Kazakhstan’s president resigns at a moment of political tension and uncertainty
- Uzbekistan and UAE sign $10 billion worth of agreements
- World Bank supports rural businesses in Uzbekistan’s Ferghana Valley
- US embassy brings American southwestern music to Turkmenistan
- Spanish renewable energy company to enter Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan to seek major loans from IMF to fund key projects
- Kazakhstan: Ex-prime minister appointed interim president’s chief of staff
- EDB loans $44 million to Kazakhstan’s gold producer
- Kyrgyzstan: Lessons learned. Farmers do not trust officials’ advice
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Villagers in Tajikistan to benefit from infrastructure improvements along CASA1000 transmission line
- US discuss Afghanistan peace process with Russia, China, EU officials
- Kazakhstan: Police detain protesters in several cities during Norouz
- EBRD supports trade in Uzbekistan
- World Bank supports rehabilitation of Nurek hydropower plant in Tajikistan
- Tajikistan: Turkish-Tajik bus-assembling plant launched in Dushanbe
- Kazakhstan: Astana police detain protesters who oppose renaming city after Nazarbayev
- Afghanistan: Presidential vote delayed until September
- Kazakhstan and China discuss increasing cooperation
- Kazakhstan: Government, National Bank to continue Nazarbayev’s policy
- Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev’s daughter becomes Senate speaker as Astana renamed after Nazarbayev
- Kazakhstan: Toqaev sworn in as the country’s acting president
- USAID donates over 110,000 books for schools in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan automobile plant starts exporting cars to Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan and ADB review 2018 projects performance
- Kazakhstan: President Nazarbayev abruptly resigns but will retain key roles
- Russia tightens its grip on Uzbekistan’s oil and gas industry
- Uzbekistan-US economic cooperation prospects discussed in Washington
- Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan reach agreement, reopen border crossing after deadly clashes
- Kyrgyzstan: Former president’s Social Democratic Party switches to opposition
- Kyrgyzstan: Former President Atambayev says he is sorry for bringing his successor to power
- Kyrgyzstan announces major advancements in the fight against tuberculosis
- Central Asian Economic Forum held in Uzbekistan
- Afghanistan to start exports through rail link to China soon
- Mother of US cyclist killed in terror attack seeks compensation from Tajikistan
- Can Central Asia countries pay their external debts?
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Russia extradites businessman suspected of fraud to Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan: Investing in early childhood development critical to future growth
- Afghanistan civil servants graduate from University of Central Asia
- US co-invests in first private food safety laboratory in Turkmenistan
- European Parliament urges Kazakhstan to end political repression
- Afghanistan, US officials clash over Khalilzad’s conduct in Taliban peace talks
- Two Tajik villagers killed in clashes on disputed Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border
- First shipment from Afghanistan via Iran’s Chabahar port arrives in India
- Kyrgyzstan president says his country to enhance cooperation with China
- Uzbekistan suspends receiving and sending of Boeing 737 MAX flights
- Turkmenistan, Pakistan confirm commitment to TAPI gas pipeline project
- OSCE and Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry hold donor coordination meeting for police reform
- Kyrgyzstan: USAID, Oasis Agro LLC inaugurate first modern feed mill in Osh
- Kazakhstan presents its investment opportunities in France
- Afghanistan: US-Taliban peace talks in Doha end with ‘real strides’ but no deal
- Tourism should become a driver of Kazakhstan’s economy — PM
- Islamic countries engage with China against the background of repression in Xinjiang
- Belt and Road Initiative to cut trade costs, enhance investment in Central Asia, Caucasus
- Afghanistan, India open another air freight corridor bypassing Pakistan
- Afghanistan: Taliban leader Mullah Omar reportedly lived near US base for years
- Uzbekistan and France plan Silk Road exhibition in the Louvre
- University of Central Asia architect wins Pritzker Prize
- Kazakhstan: Xinjiang activist detained, accused of inciting discord
- Internet becoming more accessible in Central Asia countries
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- New wave of Kazakh nationalism changing Astana’s domestic and foreign policies
- Kyrgyzstan: Francophonie week 2019 to be held in Bishkek
- A novel of author from Uzbekistan wins 2019 EBRD Literature Prize
- As Russia loses its luster, Tajik laborers head to Turkey
- US charges daughter of Uzbekistan’s late president with bribery, corruption
- Russia’s MTS to pay $850 million to settle corruption case in Uzbekistan
- ADB loan to develop solar power in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan and Poland hold business forum in Warsaw
- Uzbekistan: GDP to grow by 5.5% this year, IMF says
- Turkmenistan hosts Istanbul Process Regional Infrastructure working groups meeting
- Tajikistan: Opposition activist reveals details of his abduction by authorities
- Kazakhstan and Egypt hold business forum in Astana
- Amnesty International tells Kazakhstan to respect right to peaceful protest
- Uzbekistan: Gulnara Karimova ordered to prison after violating house arrest
- Taliban chief welcomes Uzbekistan’s peace efforts, infrastructure work in Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan and Russia to hold interregional cooperation conference
- Uzbekistan hopes Islamic education is the antidote to extremism
- Kazakhstan and Finland hold business and investment roundtable
- Qatar and Russia to expedite peace process in Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan draws closer to presidential succession
- Kazakhstan advances as a new world tourism destination
- Afghanistan: No agreement reached at US-Taliban talks in Qatar
- Tajikistan: Abducted opposition activist returns to Europe
- Kyrgyzstan: President holds national dialogue on regional development
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Development dialogue addresses migration policy in Kyrgyzstan
- US Marine Corps major general visits Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan: Caritas Germany launches project to improve the lives of persons with disabilities
- Turkmenistan redirects its oil exports from Azerbaijan to Russia
- Uzbekistan opens bicycle plant with Chinese company
- World Bank supports access to clean water, sanitation in Tajikistan’s remote regions
- Kyrgyzstan: Court rules former President Atambayev committed libel
- Kyrgyzstan: Preferential mortgage lending not affordable for state employees
- Uzbekistan: Reforms building better opportunities for people — WB regional vice-president
- Afghanistan: Exploration work starts at Afghan-Tajik oil zone
- Tajikistan: Former members of opposition Group 24 ask to lift ban on the group
- Kazakhstan: Police detain antigovernment protesters as ruling party holds congress
- Uzbekistan to increase gold reserves
- Boosting financial protection against natural disasters critical for Central Asia economies
- Turkmenistan: State employees offered to sweep streets instead of dismissal
- Kazakhstan: New Government targets at ‘real action’
- Afghanistan: Taliban hopeful on possible agreement on US troops pullout
- Turkmenistan: Suicide of Coca-Cola executive casts more gloom
- Turkmenistan: State to control prices of essential products
- Kazakhstan: IFC to support city of Almaty to improve infrastructure services
- US to repatriate assets stolen by Bakiyevs to Kyrgyzstan
- Askar Mamin appointed as Kazakhstan’s new prime minister
- US retreat from Afghanistan opens new strategic opportunities for Russia in Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: Foreign Ministry considers creation of investment ecosystem
- Afghanistan sends first exports to India via Iran’s Chabahar port
- Tajikistan: Activist forcibly returned from Russia faces politically motivated prosecution — rights groups
- Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev scrambling to be seen acting on growing inequality
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: Subsoil users concerned about possible tax burden increase
- Tajikistan: EU supports Zarafshon irrigation rehabilitation and river basin management project
- Kyrgyzstan: Former President Atambayev admits ‘many mistakes’ when in office
- EU Special Representative for Central Asia visits Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan and Turkmenistan sign strategic partnership agreement
- Tajikistan: Opposition figure arrested after return from self-imposed exile
- Kazakhstan: President Nazarbayev sacks Government over economic failures
- Consultative Council on Improvement of Investment Climate meets in Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan: Acquittal in Telia trial dismays transparency advocates
- EU trains border guards, customs and migration officers in Central Asia
- First International Forum on Pilgrimage Tourism starts in Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan: Report confirms significant Chinese security presence in Pamirs
- Turkmenistan: Authorities resume ‘clampdown’ on dark cars, female drivers
- Uzbekistan hosts conference on Central Asia security, economic cooperation
- Kyrgyzstan: Preliminary hearings into high-level officials’ corruption case begin
- Kazakhstan: AIX receives recognition from UK HM Revenue & Customs
- Tajikistan: The mysterious case of the would-be repentant dissident
- Russia and Central Asia countries the main trade partners of China’s Xinjiang
- Malaysia plans to create a hub for processing, production of palm oil in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan establishes cooperation with the State of Mississippi
- EU and Tajikistan discuss additional trade preferences for Tajik exporters
- Foreign diplomats visit China’s Xinjiang over reeducation camps
- Afghanistan’s Taliban calls off meeting in Pakistan due to UN sanctions
- Uzbekistan asks bond-buyers to be its valentine with $1 billion sale
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Central Asia countries focused on attracting foreign investment
- Tajikistan: Authorities claim opposition leader ‘voluntarily’ returned from self-imposed exile
- Foreign rights observers deported from Kazakhstan without seeing fired judge
- EDB to finance construction of solar power plants in Kazakhstan
- Russian warnings of Afghan threats bring decreasing dividends in Central Asia
- Turkmenistan and Germany hold business forum
- Tajikistan: Customs officials burn 5,000 Baptist calendars
- Malaysian business explores Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan seeks to obtain beneficiary status of EU’s GSP+ system
- US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan won’t create power vacuum — Russian envoy
- Kazakhstan: Activist for ethnic Kazakhs in Xinjiang on trial in Almaty
- Indian companies to build power plants in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan and Hungary to hold business forum in Budapest
- Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development to reconstruct road in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan: Two opposition politicians released from prison
- Tajikistan issues arrest warrant in absentia for prominent journalist
- Russia takes temperature on its Central Asia ties
- Kyrgyzstan: Weak growth despite emerging regional opportunities — WB report
- Uzbekistan: Resigned security chief under criminal investigation, officials say
- Kazakhstan: Judge fired after opposition activist’s acquittal
- Uzbekistan to host conference on interconnectedness in Central Asia
- Harsh Turkish condemnation of Xinjiang cracks Muslim wall of silence
- Uzbekistan, EU start negotiations on enhanced partnership and cooperation agreement
- Government ‘ready’ to open Taliban office in Afghanistan — President Ghani
- Kyrgyzstan: Government proposes to corporatize the state railways enterprise
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan foreign minister meets with foreign diplomats
- Uzbekistan setting up Council of Foreign Investors jointly with EBRD
- Turkmenistan: US embassy presents American films in annual winter film screenings
- Kyrgyzstan: Court jails man for using WhatsApp to ‘incite ethnic hatred’
- Uzbekistan to increase and diversify exports, set up export headquarters
- Kazakhstan to reduce imports of consumer goods by up to 50%
- Afghanistan: Kabul lodges complaint with UN over Taliban trip to Moscow
- World Bank provides new financial package to Afghanistan
- Hamburg hosts the Day of Economy of Kazakhstan
- Son of Kyrgyzstan’s former ambassador jailed for 3 years in US
- Afghanistan: Taliban insists on US-troop withdrawal at Moscow talks
- Kazakhstan and its pungent oil: A curse and a blessing
- Uzbekistan reiterates readiness to host intra-Afghan peace talks with Taliban
- Russian military base in Tajikistan ‘important security factor’ — Lavrov
- Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev says no plans for early presidential election
- Turkish firm may invest in Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan power project
- UK suspends Turkmenistan Airlines flights affecting India travellers
- No discussion of opening new Russian military base in Kyrgyzstan — Russian FM
- Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev wants constitutional clarification on termination of presidential duties
- Turkmenistan: President outlines priorities of country development in 2019
- New alternative to gas flaring in Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan: Access to finance to be easier for small and medium enterprises
- Afghanistan: Work on CASA-1000 power project faces 8-month delay
- Kyrgyzstan: Corruption hinders mining development, investment attraction
- Uzbekistan seeks new embrace of the English language
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Afghanistan: Government forces shrinking as Taliban regain territory – report
- Tajikistan women get life sentences in Iraq for belonging to IS
- Russian language losing its position in Kyrgyzstan — and Moscow may be as well
- US investors to create intensive gardens, modern greenhouses in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan and European Union review cooperation
- Russia to host Afghanistan peace talks with Taliban participation — report
- Kyrgyzstan: Deterring corruption could improve governance in energy sector
- Russian plant to manufacture energy-saving tractors in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan: SCO Centre for Public Diplomacy opens in Tashkent
- Turkmenistan to privatize transport sector, phase out state funding of science
- Afghanistan: Taliban says not looking for ‘monopoly on power’
- Central Asia: ‘Very little progress’ in combatting corruption — report
- US donates $3.8 million in ground sensor radar equipment to Tajikistan
- EBRD, Green Climate Fund provide $50 million for solar plant in Kazakhstan
- OSCE strengthens Uzbekistan capacities to counter the use of Internet for terrorist purposes
- Kyrgyzstan: Anti-China protester arrested, charged with inciting ethnic hatred
- Kazakhstan to expand geography of non-primary exports in 2019
- IS militants transferred from Pakistan to Tajikistan border — Russian official
- US and Russian presidents urged to help ethnic Kazakhs in Xinjiang
- Afghanistan: US, Taliban agree in principle to peace ‘framework’
- Kazakhstan as an Arctic state and a maritime power
- Tajikistan and the World Bank Group mark 25 years of partnership
- New US ambassador to Tajikistan appointed
- Turkmenistan intensifies the anti-beard campaign, report says
- ‘Significant progress’ in US-Taliban talks on Afghanistan
- Eurasian Economic Union countries could benefit through business integration
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Turkmenistan starts building new highway to city near Uzbekistan border
- Kyrgyzstan adopts new health strategy for 2019–2030
- Central Asia: ADB grant to help develop railways in CAREC countries
- ADB issues first local currency bonds in Kazakhstan
- Central Asia’s largest solar power plant opens in Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan: Taliban appoints new political leader amid peace talks with US
- Kazakhstan: Lawmakers propose Kazakh Republic as official country name
- Tajikistan: National air carrier becomes presidential family plaything
- Russian president to visit Kyrgyzstan
- At Davos forum, Afghanistan’s CEO lures investors to war-torn country
- Uzbekistan to discuss abolishing boycott by major US brands of Uzbek textile products
- Kazakhstan: Bank chided by president goes into liquidation
- Turkmenistan introduces electronic document flow system
- Uzbekistan president visits Germany’s Bavaria to expand cooperation
- Central Asia: World Bank enhances weather, climate and water information services
- Uzbekistan president visits Germany to boost economic cooperation
- Uzbekistan and Netherlands expand agricultural cooperation
- Tajikistan prepares a project to improve strategic road section
- Uzbekistan to host international forum on pilgrimage tourism
- Turkmenistan: President and Government discuss priorities of country’s development
- Kazakhstan: Foreign and agriculture ministries to attract agricultural investment, promote export
- Afghanistan: President Ghani seeks reelection, vows to ‘work for peace’
- To attract foreign investment, Central Asia countries introduce open skies policy
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Tajikistan’s ruling family waits in wings as Tragic Air goes down in flames
- Uzbekistan president attends Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in India
- Uzbekistan and India expand cooperation
- Kazakhstan and Hungary identify areas of cooperation
- Uzbekistan: New FEZ to attract investment, pharmaceutical technologies from India
- Afghanistan: Rights on the precipice as civilians increasingly under threat — HRW report
- Central Asia countries should protect rights as they seek investment — HRW
- Kyrgyzstan: Another protest in Bishkek against Chinese migrants
- Turkmenistan to switch to digital economy by 2025
- No threat to Turkmenistan from Afghanistan — Afghan foreign ministry
- Afghanistan: Taliban must talk to Kabul government, US envoy says
- Chinese airline company in the top 5 in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan’s president considers giving up some executive powers
- Uzbekistan president to visit India, Germany
- Turkmenistan reportedly registers reservists amid tensions on Afghanistan border
- Lines, price rises and expensive booze – the cost of happiness in Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan reforms offer ‘historic opportunity’ — EBRD first vice president
- Kazakhstan: Khorgos border trade center sees increase in visitors
- India signs agreements for 26 development projects in Afghanistan
- EBRD invests in modern power generation in Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan’s growth to average at 6% in 2019–2020 — World Bank
- Dutch company may participate in a new potato cluster in Uzbekistan
- Afghanistan’s importance for connectivity stressed at India-Central Asia Dialogue in Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan: Journalist jailed in absentia for ‘breaching court order’
- Kyrgyzstan: Business Ombudsman to protect the rights of entrepreneurs
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan authorities betray nerves over anti-China rumblings
- Kyrgyzstan: Fresh corruption charges filed against ex-prime minister
- Moscow court approves extradition of Kazakhstan businessman
- International forum to discuss Uzbekistan’s long-term development strategy
- Foreign diplomats visit China’s Xinjiang amid reports on reeducation camps
- Russia blames postponement of Afghanistan presidential election on US influence
- Kazakhstan gets accreditation from United Nations to train peacekeepers
- Uzbekistan aims at a breakthrough in tourism development in 2019
- Uzbekistan: President orders to attract more foreign investments
- Kazakhstan says China allowing 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to leave Xinjiang
- Uzbekistan: Jailed former CEO of Zeromax released after 8 years
- Turkmenistan: President orders to use ‘wisdom of ancestors’ in agricultural reform
- Afghanistan migrants returning from Iran hit record high in 2018
- ADB grant to support cross-border energy trading in Central Asia
- Uzbekistan: Trial of former prosecutor-general starts in Tashkent
- Afghanistan: Taliban calls off peace talks in Qatar with US officials
- Belgian consultant to help implement Uzbekistan’s largest spa project
- Uzbekistan: Decree allows unmarried couples to stay in hotels together
- Kyrgyzstan: Protesters rally against Chinese migrants
- Terrorism trial opens in Sweden against men from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan introduces visa-free regime for citizens of Germany
- Turkmenistan to attend Central Asia–India Dialog in Samarkand, Uzbekistan
- Afghanistan: Rice production on the rise
- India and Afghanistan discuss regional stability amid US pullout plan
- Eurasian Economic Union: achievements, problems and forecasts
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Turkey to host Afghanistan and Pakistan for Afghan peace talks
- Kazakhstan: Court upholds denial of early release to former uranium tycoon
- Tajikistan: Lawyer who defended dissidents for decades dies at 55
- Turkmenistan: MTS packing up and leaving, further dampening investor climate
- Uzbekistan citizen takes office of SCO Secretary-General
- Afghanistan: Kabul demands clarification on Washington’s policy
- Tajikistan and ADB sign grant to improve maternal and child healthcare
- Turkmenistan: President’s son and presumed heir gets new top job
- Kazakhstan introducing e-visas for foreigners
- Afghanistan’s exports reach $1 billion in 2018
- Trump urges Russia, Pakistan to take more active role in Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan: 2018 agrarian year results
- New social and economic initiatives enter into force in Kazakhstan
- Turkmenistan enacts strict law on alcohol sales
- Afghanistan: NATO and US troops see an opportunity for peace in 2019
- Key macroeconomic indicators tested for strength in EDB member countries in 2018
- Afghanistan: Kabul suffers from air pollution
- Lapis Lazuli corridor a better alternative to Pakistan routes for transit of Afghanistan goods to Europe
- Taliban holds talks in Tehran on ending Afghanistan war
- Afghanistan in 2018: No end to the stalemate
- Uzbekistan declares 2019 the Year of Active Investment and Social Development
- Kazakhstan: Foreign Ministry will coordinate investment attraction, export promotion
- Afghanistan postpones presidential election
- Kyrgyzstan in 2018: Growing GDP and debt, decreasing investments
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: Judicial reform aims to restore public confidence
- Minister names top 10 tourist destinations in Kazakhstan
- Azerbaijan extradites Kyrgyzstan’s fugitive ex-customs chief charged with corruption
- The phantom white knights that would save Tajikistan’s banking sector
- Uzbekistan diplomats tasked to attract foreign investment, promote export, lure tourists
- Kazakhstan: Government prepares tax amnesty for small and medium business
- Kyrgyzstan: Libel lawsuit piles pressure on ex-president
- Afghanistan: US troop pullout to create new challenges for China, Pakistan
- Tajikistan: President proposes to declare 2019-2021 as years of rural development, tourism
- Tajikistan: President sums up 2018 results
- Afghanistan: Tehran officially confirms holding talks with Taliban
- China opposes defamation of counter-extremism efforts in Xinjiang
- Uzbekistan seeks to attract Belgian company to its fruit and vegetable market
- Kazakhstan: Government approves plan to increase irrigated land for agriculture
- China and Pakistan discuss ‘new changes’ in Afghanistan situation
- 2019 to be held under slogan of ‘Home of Prosperity’ in Turkmenistan
- Indian company starts formal operation at Chabahar’s Shahid Behesti port in Iran
- EBRD and Switzerland support water supply improvements in Kyrgyzstan
- Afghanistan: ‘Electricity-in-a-box’ brings innovative power solution to off-grid communities
- Spanish companies invest in construction of waste recycling plants in Kazakhstan
- Turkish company to build agricultural waste recycling plant in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan: Almaty makes strides in tourism development
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to launch ‘Silk Visa’ program in February
- Kyrgyzstan: Commercial banks told to disclose information on customers
- After two years, Uzbekistan still looks wobbly on the reform tightrope
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: Court sentences three men in case linked to fugitive tycoon
- Kyrgyzstan’s State Customs Service Training Centre gets WCO regional status
- Kazakhstan: Government lowers utility tariffs in all regions of the country
- Uzbekistan creates a new tax administration system
- Kyrgyzstan: Protesters rally outside Chinese embassy against Xinjiang ‘reeducation camps’
- Trump considering pulling out half of US troops from Afghanistan — reports
- Turkmenistan: People face problems withdrawing cash due to newly-imposed restrictions
- Netherlands Agrotechnology Center will be created in Uzbekistan
- European Union supports health care and social services in Tajikistan
- Afghanistan: US envoy held ‘productive’ talks to bring Taliban to negotiating table
- Kyrgyzstan: President says he is ‘not fighting’ with his predecessor
- Afghanistan and Pakistan clash over border fence
- Cities in Uzbekistan to improve municipal services, urban infrastructure with World Bank support
- Kyrgyzstan: EU transfers 6.5 million euro budget support grant for social protection sector
- EBRD and EU help to save cultural heritage in Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan starts preparations to host First Caspian Economic Forum
- Turkmenistan unofficially bans pig images as New Year decoration
- Afghanistan’s Taliban and US officials hold talks in UAE
- Turkmenistan: Turkey presents its export products in Ashgabat
- International Labour Organization delegation visits Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan-Japan business forum held in Tokyo
- Activists, journalists detained as Kazakhstan marks Independence Day
- Central Asia: Who benefits from labor migration?
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan awards foreign investors
- Uzbekistan: Lawmakers criminalize begging
- US government supports demographic and health survey in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: Parliament approves bill to strip ex-presidents’ immunity
- Uzbekistan bets on dividends from Sufi revival
- Eni, GE Renewable Energy start construction of a wind power plant in Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan: President inaugurates Lapis Lazuli transport corridor
- Uzbekistan wins its long fight against malaria
- Kyrgyzstan: Whimpering ex-president clutches at straws in political showdown
- Turkmenistan: Authorities impose tax for the use of motor roads
- Turkmenistan president marks Int’l Day of Neutrality with prisoner amnesty
- Afghanistan: IMF satisfied with government’s monetary, economic policy
- Kazakhstan and China create joint venture for automobile manufacturing
- US says Uzbekistan improving on religious freedoms
- Kyrgyzstan: Killer in ‘bride kidnapping’ case sentenced to 20 years in prison
- Afghanistan: First export shipment set along Lapis Lazuli route to Europe
- Kazakhstan: OSCE and joint UN/EU program hold workshop on management of violent extremist prisoners
- Kyrgyzstan: PM visits USAID-supported Kyrgyz-Tajik dried fruit processing JV
- Afghanistan: Armed groups, MPs, officials involved in illegal mining — report
- Int’l community concerned over blockage of internet sites in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: Former deputy prime minister arrested on corruption charges
- Kyrgyzstan: Legal import from Kazakhstan would help meet demand for motor fuel
- Afghanistan has highest unemployed workforce in the world
- Iran accuses US of transferring IS militants to Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan proposes new format for OSCE presence in Astana
- Kazakhstan cuts police numbers, turns to public for help
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Russian and US diplomats discuss Afghanistan peace process
- Open Data Challenge 2018 concludes in Uzbekistan
- London hosts Uzbekistan–British consultations on Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan: Smells like election spirit
- EU supports capacity building for multi-sectoral investment in Turkmenistan
- Kyrgyzstan: EU helps to increase income of rural population in Jalal-Abad region
- HRW calls on European Union to press on Kyrgyzstan for veteran rights defender’s release
- Regional cooperation in Central Asia: Relevance of world models
- Turkmenistan leader outlines priorities of country development in 2019
- ECFA presents recommendations on EU’s new strategy for Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: OSCE-supported Osh Entrepreneurship Support Centre marks anniversary
- Kyrgyzstan: Protesters call on UN to help oppressed in China’s Xinjiang
- Kazakhstan: Government approves concept of Third Industrialization Program
- ADB grant to improve maternal and child healthcare in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan: Authorities arrest leader of unregistered political party
- Afghanistan forces’ losses may not be sustainable, US general warns
- Kyrgyzstan president says EEU may adopt single currency, admit new members
- ADB plans over $300 million to support Tajikistan development in 2019–2021
- Terror threat turns inward on Central Asia
- Afghanistan: ADB to provide $2 billion for key projects
- Pakistan says Trump asks Khan to help bring Afghanistan’s Taliban to peace talks
- Kyrgyzstan: municipalities of Issyk-Kul, Jalal-Abad provinces exchange best practices on improving services
- Turkmenistan to host UNESCO forum on Silk Road
- Tajikistan: US embassy hands over new post on border with Afghanistan
- ADB supports Kyrgyzstan’s efforts to combat climate change
- Afghanistan: Exports through air corridors to reach $100 million
- Kyrgyzstan: How to make the mining sector investor friendly
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Large exhibition of Kazakhstan’s contemporary art opens in South Korea
- Kazakhstan: Economy needs diversification as productivity stagnates — report
- Committee to protect Kyrgyz people in China’s Xinjiang established in Bishkek
- Kyrgyzstan: Governments change but the environmental problems remain
- Russia’s Gazprom confirms interest in cooperation with Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan: World Bank welcomes government’s economic reform priorities
- Foreign Investors’ Council meets in Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan: ADB helps to improve water supply, sanitation systems in Dushanbe
- Hackers eyeing Kazakhstan as a safe haven
- Implementation of Lapis Lazuli Agreement discussed in Turkmenistan
- EBRD and GCF boost Kazakhstan’s green power generation
- Kazakhstan: Jailed former uranium tycoon denied early release
- Afghanistan president presents roadmap for peace talks at UN conference
- Central Asia: UN launches new fund to advance sustainable development in Aral Sea region
- EU announces $535 million in new funds for Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan parliament advances bill to cancel ex-presidents immunity
- Kazakhstan: Fugitive banker and Nazarbayev foe sentenced to life in prison
- Kazakhstan: 16 days of activism against gender-based violence
- IS went underground in Afghanistan, with fewer than 10,000 fighters — official
- Kazakhstan and UAE review joint projects
- Kyrgyzstan president urged to help release ethnic Kyrgyz from China ‘reeducation camps’
- Kabul hosts Afghanistan-India security dialogue
- Kazakhstan has decade to prepare for global switch away from oil, EBRD report says
- ADB to improve wastewater management in lakeshore tourist areas in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan, Belarus in spat over Ashgabat’s debt for Garlyk plant construction
- Central Asia countries pin hopes on tourism
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: Skies over Kumtor gold field darken once more
- European Union to open a new Delegation in Turkmenistan
- European Union and Uzbekistan launch negotiations for a new agreement
- Kazakhstan and China agree on new economic projects
- ADB helps to enhance energy connectivity in Afghanistan
- EU and Uzbekistan hold Cooperation Council meeting in Brussels
- Tajikistan makes first comments about deadly prison riot
- Kazakhstan: Prosecutor demands life sentence for ex-banker Ablyazov
- EU to promote rural development in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan invites Singapore to implement joint projects
- Tajikistan: Court convicts 15 in cyclists’ killings, main suspect gets life in prison
- Tajikistan casts dice in hydroelectric gamble, but will the people benefit?
- Uzbekistan plans $36 billion worth of projects in hydrocarbon exploration, production and deep processing
- Central Asia: Stronger agricultural extensions can boost crop production
- Tajikistan: US diplomat, Tajik officials discuss deadly prison unrest
- Kyrgyzstan: Presidential rift widens over campaign irregularity allegations
- Afghanistan: UN agency reports sharp drop in opium production
- Uzbekistan: ADB loan to establish ‘one-stop shops’ for horticulture product processing, storage and distribution
- Uzbekistan holds international investment forum for tourism sphere
- OSCE PA president visits Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
- OSCE helps to train Tajikistan border troops
- Kazakhstan presents investment projects to Indian companies
- Afghanistan: Taliban reportedly holds talks with US envoy in Qatar
- Kyrgyzstan: Deputy foreign ministers of Central Asia states and Afghanistan meet in Bishkek
- Tajikistan jails teacher, students on terrorism charges
- Kyrgyzstan: Textile and Clothing Week held in Bishkek
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- American film experts present documentary films in Turkmenistan
- Kyrgyzstan: President accuses predecessor of trying to turn him into ‘puppet’
- Tajikistan launches first turbine of giant Rogun hydropower plant
- Kazakhstan: The jihadis that never were?
- Kazakhstan and Slovakia hold business forum in Astana
- ADB helps Tajikistan reconnect to Central Asian Power System
- ADB commits $2 billion in new assistance for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation projects
- Uzbek opposition group prevented from holding meeting in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan steps up railway diplomacy
- US government launches new agribusiness project in Tajikistan
- Regional center in Kazakhstan to upgrade public transport fleet with EBRD help
- EBRD and EU to boost small business in Turkmenistan
- EBRD to step up cooperation with China, EU on Central Asia investment
- Russia’s peace conference on Afghanistan: What does it mean?
- World Bank commits $300 million to support sustainable growth in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan’s atomic company places securities on London Stock Exchange
- Tajikistan: At least 50 inmates were killed in prison riot, sources say
- Tajikistan: 12 arrested over alleged plot to attack Russian base
- EBRD forum in Beijing to promote investment in Central Asia
- ADB helps to enhance operations of Kazakhstan’s Samruk-Energy
- Afghanistan: Taliban to talk to Kabul if timeline agreed for US troops withdrawal — Moscow
- Kazakhstan foreign minister, new ambassador of China review bilateral relations
- Netherlands companies enter Uzbekistan’s agricultural sector
- Kazakhstan attracting German investments
- Kazakhstan needs robust reforms to boost productivity and growth — World Bank
- Kazakhstan presents its literature and art in London
- Kyrgyzstan: Why the agrarian country cannot provide itself with agricultural products
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Afghanistan: Taliban says it’s not ready for talks with Kabul government
- Tajikistan: Islamic State says it was behind deadly prison riot
- Kazakhstan: Five jailed over bus fire that killed 52 Uzbek citizens
- Kazatomprom IPO to test-drive Kazakhstan’s privatization plan
- Turkmenistan: ADB loan to strengthen electricity supply, boost regional power trade
- Kazakhstan holds Working Group meeting on UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Central Asia: EU announces additional €10 million to deal with radioactive waste
- Tajikistan: Deadly prison riot reported in Khujand
- Towards a Central Asia and Caucasus trade bloc for Belt and Road
- US says it will send a representative to Moscow meeting on Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: Rural economic program to get $100 million boost
- Kazakhstan showcased at World Travel Market in London
- US exempts Iran’s Chabahar port from sanctions to support Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan switching to a digital economy
- Tajikistan: Protesters in Gorno-Badakhshan demand probe of police shooting
- Afghanistan inaugurates air corridor to China
- Afghanistan Peace Council, Taliban to take part in Moscow peace talks
- Central Asian governments call for elimination of violence against women and girls
- Kazakhstan and Estonia hold business forum
- Turkmenistan: US ambassador led diplomatic visit to site of Dayahatyn cultural preservation project
- E-business and e-commerce conference in Kyrgyzstan discusses digital markets, trade development in Central Asia
- EBRD expects Central Asia economic growth to ease in 2018 and 2019
- EDB to finance East Kazakhstan Regional Energy Company investment program
- Afghanistan: High Peace Council to attend Moscow peace talks
- Uzbekistan’s controversial businessman elected head of amateur boxing federation
- To achieve ambitious goals, Kyrgyzstan seeks international assistance
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- ADB provides $78 million to improve regional road links in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan: President Jeenbekov and US Ambassador Lu inaugurate milk processing facility in Osh
- 48 Peace Corps Volunteers start working at mainly rural schools in Kyrgyzstan
- Language-motivated emigration of Russians causes shortage of qualified workers in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan’s transit and transport potential presented at Berlin Eurasian Club meeting
- Kazakhstan joins world’s top 30 countries in Doing Business ranking
- Kazakhstan and Russia discuss expansion of trade, economic and investment cooperation
- Afghanistan: Taliban control large parts of the countryside, US watchdog says
- Kazakhstan: Lower house of Parliament approves state budget for 2019-2021
- Kazakhstan and Malaysia inaugurate Business Council
- Afghanistan is a top improver with record reforms to improve business climate — Doing Business report
- Kyrgyzstan hosts World Mountain Forum
- Turkmenistan: officials, entrepreneurs buy elite property to save capitals
- Uzbekistan–Russia Youth Business Forum held in Tashkent
- Afghanistan displays agricultural produce at WorldFood Kazakhstan trade show
- Uzbekistan: Deputy PM fired for ‘shortcomings’ in wake of RFE/RL report
- The perspective of trans-Caspian gas flow to Europe
- Kazakhstan: Polish investors to build innovative greenhouse in Turkestan Oblast
- Kazakhstan-Russia intergovernmental commission meets in Kazan
- Kyrgyzstan’s new foreign minister makes first foreign trip to Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan hosts conference on security cooperation in Central Asia
- A comprehensive reform program is key to development and shared prosperity in Tajikistan
- Afghanistan: No decision yet on Moscow peace talks
- Uzbekistan presents economic and investment potential in Italy
- EU and Tajikistan hold human rights dialogue
- To sell or not to sell? Kyrgyzstan mapping the future of major mobile operator
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- After three-year hiatus, Gazprom to renew purchases of Turkmen gas
- Uzbekistan–China Innovation Center to be established in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan will mediate Afghanistan peace talks, envoy says
- Selfies, social media and the absurdities of Kyrgyzstan politics
- It is profitable to invest in Kazakhstan’s agro-industrial sector, PM says
- Kazakhstan: New global commitment to primary health care for all at Astana conference
- US to diversify economic cooperation with Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan presents office for protecting business and investment to diplomatic community
- Tolls are coming to Central Asia highways
- Turkmenistan government delegation visits Japan
- Kyrgyzstan presents National Action Plan to increase government’s accountability
- US delegation concerned over human rights situation in Tajikistan
- US commerce secretary applauds ‘successful’ reforms in Uzbekistan
- After Putin’s visit, Russia’s footprint in Uzbekistan is set to grow
- Turkmenistan, EU discuss Trans-Caspian gas pipeline project
- World Bank pledges $298 million for education in Afghanistan
- Dozens of dying villages to be ‘liquidated’ in northern Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan: Brother of former Ablyazov lawyer jailed on graft charges
- Uzbekistan hosts American Business Week
- Trans-Caspian International Transport Route boosts container traffic
- Kazakhstan discusses investment cooperation with European business
- Afghanistan leaders say election turnout shows voters rejecting the Taliban
- Reproductive health important for youth in Kazakhstan, new UNFPA report says
- Kazakhstan ranks first in three parameters of World Economic Forum rating
- Belarus suggests joint milk-processing project to Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD provides funds to Kazakhstan’s food and beverages manufacturer
- In Kyrgyzstan, remembering the past can help mitigate disaster risks in the future
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- New York hosts exhibition of Kazakhstan art group
- Uzbekistan: Putin and Mirziyoev launch construction of nuclear power plant
- Kyrgyzstan: Former President Atambayev’s associate added to wanted list on corruption charges
- Kazakhstan building the Great Financial Silk Road: hub by hub
- Kazakhstan: Tax amnesty to affect 90,000 small and medium businesses
- EBRD to finance new solar power plant construction in Kazakhstan
- First EIB loans to Uzbekistan support water infrastructure, energy efficiency
- Finland to invest in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan and Russia: Chilly weather, warm relations
- Turkmenistan launches major gas chemical plant in Kiyanly
- Kazakhstan to increase rail cargo transit between China and Finland
- Kazakhstan holds Kostanay Invest-2018 Regional Investment Forum
- OSCE office in Tajikistan supports economic connectivity in Central Asia
- Kazakhstan laborers head to South Korea for a better life
- Kazakhstan: Government reports steady economic growth
- Kazakhstan’s economic diplomacy to attract investment, FM says
- EBRD commits €333 million to support infrastructure upgrades in Uzbekistan
- EBRD appoints the Bank’s new managing director for Central Asia
- US musical group Humming House tours Turkmenistan
- Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation interested in Kazakhstan infrastructure projects
- Tajikistan starts construction of new Parliament and Government buildings with China funding
- Afghanistan: Kabul expo to engage private companies in TAPI gas pipeline project
- US to host annual Central Asia Trade Forum in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan: Pavlodar SEZ recognized as one of the best in the world
- Tajikistan: US donates 140,000 children’s books for Tajik school students
- Afghanistan: US agrees to discuss troop pullout, Taliban officials say
- Energy challenges in Kyrgyzstan: debt repayment and management optimization
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: Talk of visa waiver for Chinese tourists sparks ire
- Tajikistan hosts a meeting of SCO heads of government
- Kyrgyzstan: foreign minister resigns, ambassador to Seoul seeks asylum abroad
- Swiss company commissions two new plants in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan’s Human Capital Index higher than Central Asia’s average — World Bank
- Kazakhstan: Ontustik SEZ enters fDi’s Global Free Zones of the Year ranking
- EDB signs an agreement with Aiyl Bank to finance SMEs in Kyrgyzstan
- Western sanctions against Russia leave Kazakhstan exposed
- Kyrgyzstan to increase regional connectivity, boost tourism with World Bank support
- Kyrgyzstan: FAO logistics center to supply schools with local agricultural produce
- British company plans to build a plant for smokeless fuel production in Kazakhstan
- UN says civilian deaths in Afghanistan war at ‘extreme levels’
- Kazakhstan and Serbia hold business forum in Astana
- Russia to resume natural gas import from Turkmenistan
- UK to invest in Kazakhstan projects
- IMF mission visits Turkmenistan, assesses country’s macroeconomic developments
- Kazakhstan earns more, people get poorer
- Kazakhstan: President outlines new tasks for the government
- Tajikistan and India to develop defense, transport, economic cooperation
- Afghanistan: US envoy calls on Kabul, Taliban to form negotiating teams
- Kazakhstan: Former Almaty mayor and his wife sentenced in absentia
- Kazakhstan: foreign diplomats visit Khorgos FEZ and center at border with China
- Billions of dollars of US investment expected to enter Kazakhstan by 2020
- US provides construction equipment, tactical vehicles to secure Tajikistan border
- Kazakhstan denies asylum to China’s Xinjiang ‘reeducation camps’ whistle-blower
- Kyrgyzstan: The airline industry badly needs change
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Is Russia becoming Central Asia’s ‘near abroad’?
- Kyrgyzstan hosts OSCE Parliamentary Assembly meeting
- Tajikistan: US embassy builds Isfara school and Korez village health clinic
- Afghanistan says no to plan to privatize Afghan war
- Kyrgyzstan: Supreme Court rules ex-presidents’ immunity unconstitutional
- Kazakhs from China ask German chancellor to help release relatives in Xinjiang
- IOC threatens to drop boxing from Olympics over Uzbekistan man’s role
- Kazakhstan Global Investment Forum 2018 held in London
- Turkmenistan holds forum on Caspian transport and logistics
- Activists protest in New York against forced labor in Turkmenistan cotton fields
- Kazakhstan and Greece outline new trade and economic priorities
- Kazakhstan: Pension plans darken a grim picture
- Turkmenistan seeks more investment cooperation with the US
- Kazakhstan to ban landfill disposal of plastic, waste paper and glass from 2019
- Kazakhstan: Agreement signed on further development of Karachaganak project
- Kazakhstan: Date set for verdicts in former Almaty mayor trial
- US-Kazakhstan transit agreement faces challenges from Russia
- Kyrgyzstan: small producers and vulnerable populations could benefit from food hubs
- Afghanistan: agriculture ministry promoting aloe vera as alternative to poppy
- Kazakhstan to hold investment conference in the US
- Uzbekistan president visits India
- Tajikistan: Leaders introduced to president-to-be?
- Policies must address inequality of opportunity in Central Asia — WB
- EBRD rallying support for Central Asia to address uranium mining legacy
- ADB grant supports Tajikistan’s efforts in disaster risk management
- Investors leaving Afghanistan as insecurity grows
- Central Asia states optimistic on solving transportation problems
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Exhibition of Kazakhstan contemporary art opens in Berlin
- EBRD approves new strategy for Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan: ADB grant to improve water supply, sanitation systems in Dushanbe
- Forced labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry – a hard nut to crack
- Presidents of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan launch JV in Tajik city
- Nurly Zhol–Khorgos checkpoint opens at Kazakhstan-China border
- Afghanistan: Prince says his plan will end war in six months
- Uzbekistan: Prominent rights activist returns home after 10 years in exile
- ADB ups growth forecast for Kazakhstan, downs for Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan and Chinese companies sign new cooperation agreements
- First ‘clean zone’ for female convicts constructed in Kyrgyzstan with EU support
- ADB approves new partnership strategy for Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan and Tajikistan conduct first joint military exercises
- Turkmenistan to abolish quotas for free gas, electricity, and water in 2019
- Turkmenistan: President proposes landmark changes for agriculture sector
- Indian company plans to invest $1 billion in Kazakhstan poultry industry
- Russian and Kyrgyz troops hold counterterror drills in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan to host first International Investment Tourism Forum
- Kazakhstan, UN, ADB and World Bank discuss SDGs monitoring and reporting
- Russia holding military exercise in Tajikistan
- Tajikistan may postpone Turkmenistan- Afghanistan-Tajikistan rail project
- To boost agricultural exports, Central Asia states should end child labor
- Unique exhibition of Kazakhstan modern art opens in London
- New Silk Road offers significant investment opportunities in Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan: EU grant to help displaced children, to help eradicate polio
- Belarus detains Tajik soccer player accused of Salafism in Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan-Tajikistan relations: The long way to strategic partnership
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: Government saves bank owned by ex-presidential chief of staff
- President Rahmon inaugurates Cambridge Worldwide Academy Tajikistan in Dushanbe
- New head of EU Delegation to Kyrgyzstan appointed
- Tajikistan: What is going on in the Pamirs?
- India and China to train Afghanistan diplomats in capacity-building project
- Kazakhstan supports agrarian sector, strengthens sustainability of Tsesnabank
- ADB vice-president visits Uzbekistan, reaffirms partnership
- 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development focus of Aarhus Centres meeting in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan to open the country’s first world-class ski resort
- Uzbekistan to launch flight to Saudi Arabia to attract investors, tourists
- Turkmenistan: travel-ban blacklists include over 30 thousand names
- Afghanistan: NGOs invest $884 million in various projects
- Kyrgyzstan: Entrepreneurs, tired of inspections and barriers, leave for other countries
- Afghanistan sees rise in exports as foreign investment declines
- Kazakhstan and Germany to strengthen strategic partnership
- UN committee slams Kyrgyzstan for ‘culture of abduction, forced marriage’
- Rights watchdog slams Kyrgyzstan for ‘dangerously overbroad’ crackdown on extremism
- Turkmenistan opens major chemical fertilizer plant
- US hosts 8th Annual Central Asia Trade Forum in Uzbekistan
- Afghanistan: Number of Islamic State militants could grow to 10,000 — Russian envoy to UN
- First Afghanistan-UK Business Conference held in London
- Korean company builds innovative, aquaponics greenhouse in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan: Government and National Bank announce measures to support agricultural sector
- Afghanistan: US program to boost women’s role falls short — report
- Nazarbayev urges Turkish companies to invest in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan urges Russian businesses to invest in five economic sectors
- Uzbekistan’s president rebrands his administration, but keeps stalwarts
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- President Rahmon inaugurates first regional university in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: Young leaders trained to contribute to community development
- German company mulls meat production project in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan and Belarus consider joint cotton processing, oil production
- Kazakhstan attracts $1.7 billion of investments from Turkey
- Kazakhstan regions present investment opportunities in Germany’s Bavaria
- Caspian Convention signing and the implications for Trans-Caspian gas pipeline
- Russia’s Tatarstan and West Kazakhstan region boost cooperation
- US-sponsored India-Afghanistan trade and investment expo held in Mumbai
- OSCE supports greater cooperation between Central Asia countries and Afghanistan
- Tajikistan officials, opposition activists scuffle at OSCE meeting in Warsaw
- Kyrgyzstan and Turkey: There’s no getting past Gulen
- Kazakhstan: Prime Minister outlines problems constraining economic growth
- China and Russia to strengthen the synergy of Belt and Road Initiative and Eurasian Economic Union
- China and Pakistan to extend their Economic Corridor to Afghanistan
- Tajikistan receives FAO and EU support to improve agricultural statistics
- Central Asia: Database tracks authoritarians’ long arm
- Afghanistan’s counterterror brigade to train in China, ambassador says
- Human Rights Watch reports on Chinese treatment of Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang
- Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev replaces presidential administration head
- Tajikistan’s Islamist shadow
- Indian company to start operating Iran’s Chabahar port in a month
- Singapore’s company implements food industry project in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan-China cooperation under One Belt, One Road initiative discussed in Astana
- Turkmenistan opens refurbished power plant, hopes to boost power exports to Afghanistan, Pakistan
- Kyrgyzstan hosts third Nomad Games, and passes the torch
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- UNGA adopts resolution on strengthening cooperation in Central Asia
- EBRD supports public road infrastructure development in Tajikistan
- Afghanistan: US Defense Secretary meets with Afghan leaders in Kabul
- Tajikistan: mother of cyclist-attack suspect douses self with gasoline in protest
- Kazakhstan: Devaluation deflates a dispirited population
- Turkmenistan: cell-phone operator restricts the number of sim-cards per subscriber
- World Bank to support civil aviation sector reform in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan ‘not serious’ about improving press freedom environment, media watchdog says
- Kazakhstan to hold contemporary art exhibitions in UK, Germany, USA, South Korea
- US delegation competes at the Third World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan
- Conference in Uzbekistan promotes conservation agriculture in Central Asia
- Uzbekistan and Belarus launching joint ventures in various economic spheres
- Iran factor seen in Tajikistan’s stranded trucks
- USAID to invest $110 million in Afghanistan’s agriculture in five years
- Hungary’s PM visits Kyrgyzstan, vows to develop ties with ‘kin’ Central Asian states
- Dutch bank to pay $900 million for failing to prevent financial crime involving Uzbekistan’s Karimova
- US appoints special adviser on Afghanistan to assist in peace process
- Afghanistan: Taliban says founder of Haqqani network dies from illness
- Taliban commander speaks for direct peace talks with Afghanistan government
- Kazakhstan eager to become main trade and economic partner of UAE in Central Asia
- Uzbekistan ready to join Council of Turkic-Speaking Countries
- Eurasian Development Bank to finance Kazakhstan’s largest car production
- Russia sends more teachers to Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan and Turkey commit to boosting economic cooperation
- Turkmenistan and China develop tourism cooperation
- Afghanistan: new US general takes over command of NATO forces
- Turkish president visits Kyrgyzstan to mend ties, boost economic cooperation
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: Political tussle overshadows Nomad Games
- Up to 10,000 refugees return daily from crisis-hit Iran to Afghanistan
- Tajikistan: CARITAS Germany organizes summer camp for children with disabilities
- Kazakh friend of Boston Marathon bomber released from US prison, to be deported to Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan: Economy in decline but government optimistic on growth
- EBRD promotes efficient water management in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan authorities register first US NGO in more than 10 years
- Uzbekistan refugee gets 11 years in US prison for supporting militant group
- Messaging app goes on trial in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan to host regional conference on women’s empowerment in Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan hosts regional workshop on special economic zones
- China rejects reports on building military base in Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor
- Kyrgyzstan: ex-President’s party criticizes ‘short-sighted’ government policies
- Uzbekistan, Italy to set up industrial park for silk manufacture
- Kazakhstan aims at 4.5%-5% annual growth until 2025
- Afghanistan to start shipment of goods to Europe via Lapis Lazuli corridor soon
- US defense secretary downplays private military involvement in Afghanistan
- Reforms can accelerate economic diversification in Kazakhstan, ADB says
- Kazakhstan: UNDP holds summer camp for youth of Aktobe and Karaganda regions
- Uzbekistan foreign minister meets with Afghanistan leaders in Kabul
- Russia, Afghanistan postpone Afghan peace consultations in Moscow
- Tajik or Russian plane ‘bombs’ Afghanistan border area
- Kazakhstan to host int’l nuclear non-proliferation conference
- Kazakhstan’s railway company, China’s Sichuan province develop cooperation
- Tajikistan: two killed in shooting along Tajik-Afghan border
- Islamic State leader in Afghanistan reportedly killed
- In Russia’s remote Kamchatka, Central Asians slow population decline
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Tajikistan frees lawyer in another surprise gesture of clemency
- Kazakhstan uses ‘green’ technologies for effective management of water resources
- Five Central Asian leaders hold Aral Sea summit in Turkmenistan
- Central Asia: Investing today for a brighter future tomorrow
- Geneva conference on Afghanistan to assess government performance, help ensure continued aid
- Kyrgyzstan president visits Turkmenistan to boost cooperation
- Report claims Manafort promoted Moscow’s interests in Kyrgyzstan
- US to appoint special envoy on Afghanistan to promote peace, reports say
- Tajikistan: alleged security services agent reveals assassination plot
- Kazakhstan’s manufacturing sector grows 5.2% in first half of 2018
- Kazakhstan builds plant recycling PET waste into staple fiber
- Tajikistan: court frees journalist following international rights groups’ pressure
- Afghanistan, US reject Russia-hosted peace talks scheduled for September
- Turkish lira casts pall over Caucasus and Central Asia
- World Bank improves Tajikistan’s road connectivity, increases access to int’l markets
- OSCE, IOM work with Turkmenistan on establishing Advance Passenger Information system
- TAPI gas pipeline project faces land acquisition problems in Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan and Tajikistan talk up new era of amity
- Foreign ministers of Kazakhstan and Germany discuss cooperation
- Russia confirms Taliban’s participation in Moscow meeting on Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: Taliban rejects Kabul cease-fire offer
- Kyrgyzstan’s Development Strategy until 2040: same old goals and promises
- Kazakhstan: plant for production of energy-efficient pumps launched in Almaty region
- Kazakhstan’s Trade and Economic Mission to UAE
- Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan hold Intergovernmental Council meeting
- Afghanistan: President calls ‘conditional’ cease-fire as Taliban seizes northern district
- Hungarian folk art festival showcases FAO’s work on rural crafts in Central Asia
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Afghanistan: Taliban repeats call for direct talks with US
- Kazakhstan and US strengthen security and nonproliferation cooperation
- Tajikistan: OSCE contributes to capacity building of journalists reporting on disasters
- Turkmenistan: border and migration officers trained to identify foreign terrorist fighters
- New rail service launched from Kazakhstan to Turkey via Trans-Caspian route
- Kyrgyzstan creates tourist police
- Tajikistan: man jailed for 5 years for ‘insulting’ President on social media
- Anti-Russia sanctions torpedo Kazakhstan’s currency
- Presidents of Russia and Turkmenistan hold informal meeting in Sochi
- Kyrgyzstan: President visits new oil and garlic processing facility in Uzgen
- Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan agree to swap land near border
- Afghanistan: Taliban withdraws security guarantee for Red Crescent staff
- Risky business: A case study of PRC investment in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan’s economic growth at 4% in 7 months of 2018
- Tajikistan lets activists’ families reunite, but human rights crisis continues — HRW
- ADB to provide over $300 million to Tajikistan in 2019–2021
- Tajikistan: rights groups urge int’l community to press authorities to free journalist
- New hopes for shorter Caspian-Black Sea canal spark growing opposition
- China reportedly interested in joining TAPI gas pipeline project
- Kazakhstan holds presentation of multimodal transport hub at Kuryk port
- Kazakhstan and China explore cooperation in textile industry
- Three tourists, two crew members killed in helicopter accident in Tajikistan
- The Taliban takes on Islamic State: insurgents vie for control of northern Afghanistan
- UN panel says millions of Uyghurs living in ‘massive internment camp’ in China’s Xinjiang
- Taliban delegation visits Uzbekistan, meets with foreign ministry officials
- Switzerland helps improve access to clean drinking water in rural Kyrgyzstan
- Five littoral states sign convention on legal status of Caspian Sea
- Kyrgyzstan: How to benefit from labor migration
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- US military bases at Caspian Sea ‘out of question’, Kazakhstan FM says
- WFP celebrates Breastfeeding Week in Tajikistan
- EBRD provides $45 million to Kazakhstan’s Bank CenterCredit
- Caspian agreement may trigger cascade of energy projects
- Caspian states to sign Convention on legal status of Caspian Sea at summit in Kazakhstan
- Austrian company to modernize largest hydropower plant in Tajikistan
- EDB supports trade finance, SME finance programs in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan’s Tashkent Oblast, Belarus’ Minsk Oblast to cooperate in agriculture, other spheres
- Kazakhstan: will Astana’s financial gamble pay off?
- Foreign Ministry awards foreign journalists writing about Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan hopes US sanctions against Iran will not affect Chabahar port
- EU and Afghanistan hold climate change dialogue
- Kyrgyzstan: new Bishkek mayor elected
- Why an attack by grassroots jihadists in Tajikistan matters
- Islamic State no longer threatens Afghanistan security, Afghan general says
- Kazakhstan introducing Expo-2017 technologies throughout the country
- Afghanistan needs to safeguard recovery, World Bank says
- Tajikistan urged to stop retaliation against activists’ relatives
- Internet grinds to near-halt in Tajikistan
- Afghanistan to 2030: report highlights priorities for economic development
- Turkmenistan to hold int’l Amul–Hazar rally through Karakum Desert in September
- Tajikistan, Uzbekistan resume flights between Dushanbe, Bukhara amid improving ties
- China’s company to invest $20m to build a TV sets assembly plant in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan companies ready to invest in Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan and India to deepen economic, trade, transport cooperation
- Tajikistan: authorities identify suspects in attack on foreign cyclists, insist they were members of banned party
- Killings in Tajikistan send chill through tourism business
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: growing poverty and poor state budget
- Kazakhstan and Afghanistan businessmen agree on cooperation
- Kazakhstan PM meets with Indian FM in Astana
- Tajikistan seizes momentum to tar opposition as terrorists
- Islamic school in China’s Xinjiang offers anti-extremism courses to imams
- EBRD considering projects worth over $1 billion in Uzbekistan
- Iran protests Dushanbe’s claims over attack on foreign cyclists in Tajikistan
- Afghanistan-Iran trade corridors to bear fruit for both India and China
- World Bank financing helps improve weather and water forecasting in Central Asia
- EBRD provides funds for small business support in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan: ethnic Kazakh who testified about ‘reeducation camps’ in China’s Xinjiang will not be deported
- Taliban takes control of main IS stronghold in northern Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan authorities clash with owners of massive Kumtor Gold Mine
- Russia to host SCO military drill with first-ever military collaboration between India and Pakistan
- US strategy to exploit Afghanistan’s minerals fails — report
- New World Bank vice president visits Afghanistan, reassures continued support
- Tajikistan: authorities blame banned party for attack on foreign cyclists
- Iran ramps up support to Taliban in western Afghanistan
- World Bank, Afghanistan sign grant agreements for reforms worth $350 million
- Kyrgyzstan protests over Belarus media reports showing wanted ex-PM
- EBRD president visits Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan: IS claims attack that killed four foreign cyclists
- Kazakhstan: In two minds about cryptocurrencies
- Kazakhstan oil refineries to fully meet domestic demand for fuel by yearend
- Afghanistan increasing agricultural exports to India
- Russian telecom company files $750m arbitration case against Turkmenistan
- Four foreign cyclists, including two US citizens, killed in Tajikistan
- Saudis brag about giving Tajikistan $200M in aid
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: different sides of labor migration
- Activists from Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan gather at peace festival
- Trade and customs officials discuss trade facilitation in Central Asia
- Tajikistan: former students of Islam return to nothing
- Afghanistan: president inaugurates power line from Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan: women jailed after trying to meet with president
- Kazakhstan opens corruption trial against former Almaty mayor
- Kazakhs increasingly hostile to both Russians and Chinese
- New Turkmenistan-Afghanistan power line commissioned
- Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister visits United States to boost ties
- EU approves 98-million-euro funding to support reforms in Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek court ruling fuels high-level feud in the country
- Russia, Tajikistan conduct joint exercise in Badakhshan, near border with Afghanistan
- National Bank and IDB to establish first Islamic bank in Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan demands ‘severe punishment’ for 5-year-old Tajik girl’s killer in Russia
- Democracy camps empower youth in Kyrgyzstan
- Afghanistan: Taliban takes control over two districts on Pakistan border
- Kyrgyzstan: Issyk-Kul forum attracts investments
- Central Asia sees opportunity in US-China trade war
- Kyrgyzstan: minister takes control of probe into RFE/RL journalist’s death
- OSCE supports conference on transboundary water cooperation in Kazakhstan
- US officials discuss cooperation with Central Asia countries in Almaty, Tashkent
- Kyrgyzstan: President offers olive branch to civil society
- Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India hold TAPI gas pipeline project presentation at UN
- Kazakhstan’s artist wins Nuclear-Free Future Award
- Central Asia states confirm commitment to regional cooperation
- Afghanistan: Vice President Dostum escapes suicide attack
- Revival of pan-Turkism in Kazakhstan threatens pillars of Eurasian Union
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan special economic zones benefit from country’s favorable location
- Kazakhstan: development of Ontustik special economic zone discussed in Shymkent
- In Turkmenistan, UNICEF deputy regional director launches regional platform on nutrition
- US embassy presents American films, Silk Road photography in Turkmenistan
- No major changes in military strategy likely in Afghanistan, US General says
- Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek mayor detained on corruption charges
- Kazakhstan: Olympic figure skater killed in stabbing attack in Almaty
- Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan shuttle trade booms, but for how long?
- Uzbekistan set to become tea producer
- Kazakhstan launches new railway route for flour to Afghanistan
- Tajikistan: WFP supports government in emergency preparedness and response
- Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest city gets new mayor
- Tajikistan and Russia in Pamir military drills first
- Privatization going according to schedule in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan: OSCE supports opening of Centre for Public Environmental Awareness
- UK and USAID provide $105 million for Afghanistan girls’ education
- Afghanistan: Kabul rejects possibility of talks between US and Taliban
- Project ‘ASTANA’: signs of demographic upheaval in Kazakhstan?
- Afghanistan: President says Taliban could still join peace talks
- Swiss delegation visits Kyrgyzstan to strengthen cooperation, economic ties
- Tajikistan: media watchdogs condemn 12-year sentence for journalist
- Uzbekistan: journalist reunited with family in US after 18 years in prison
- Tourism in Kyrgyzstan: ambitious goals, poor roads and safety problems
- In Uzbekistan, World Bank vice president encourages authorities to maintain impressive pace of reforms
- Kazakhstan presents UN Security Council its vision on climate change mitigation
- Tajikistan: HRW condemns journalist’s conviction, demands his release
- Civilian deaths in Afghanistan at record high level, UN report says
- Tajikistan: monopoly practices send fuel prices soaring
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- US scholar on Uzbekistan reforms
- OSCE and UN support strengthening of ties between Central Asian states and Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan youth participate in wheelchair basketball sports visitor program in US
- Mayor of Kyrgyzstan’s capital gets no-confidence vote
- Kyrgyzstan: Internal Affairs Ministry, US embassy inaugurate crime prevention center in Osh
- Chinese companies to extract tungsten, molybdenum and copper in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan: EU funded project to support children affected by migration
- Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev becomes Security Council’s chairman for life
- Uzbekistan and Russia reach agreement on construction of new nuclear power plant
- Winners of ‘Kazakhstan through the eyes of foreign media’ contest announced
- Kazakhstan and Switzerland discuss investment cooperation
- Afghanistan: Ulema at Saudi summit call on Taliban to end war
- NATO pledges support for Afghanistan
- Turkmenistan’s economy—half empty or half full?
- Tajikistan: journalist sentenced to 12 years in prison
- Kazakhstan ups oil, gas, coal and electricity production in H1 2018
- Kazakhstan: slowdown in inflation, high investment activity in H1 2018
- Turkmenistan: inmates at notorious prison allowed visits from relatives
- Kazakhstan’s Astana turns 20: A tale of two capitals
- Kazakhstan: tourist zone opens at Tanbaly petroglyphs site in Almaty region
- Central Asia and EU determined to strengthen dialogue and cooperation
- Uzbekistan delegation visits Afghanistan to boost economic cooperation
- In Afghanistan, top U.S. diplomat urges peace talks with Taliban
- Idea of EEU common currency: more political, less economic
- Japan supports rural women in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan: US and UK embassies host Oxford professor to discuss Silk Road
- EU and UNICEF to jointly protect children affected by migration in Kyrgyzstan
- CARITAS Germany marks Day of Persons with Disabilities and Elderly People in Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan: even in death, cult grows around Karimov
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: new law limits outflow of money
- Turkmenistan: President reports economic growth, reprimands ministers overseeing economy
- OSCE supports improvement of penitentiary system in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan to produce gold ingots, jewelry to attract foreign tourists
- Afghanistan: farmers display crops alternate to poppy at Kabul expo
- New nature reserve created in Kazakhstan
- French company brings innovative pharmaceutical technologies to Kazakhstan
- EBRD supports Kazakhstan launch of Astana International Financial Centre
- Kazakhstan invites foreign investment in agro-industrial sector
- Kazakhstan to increase oil production to over 100 million tons in 2025
- Pentagon releases report on Afghanistan security, stability
- Uzbekistan: court fines Uzbek-born US citizen over militant links
- Kazakhstan is throttling the internet when the president’s rival is online
- Kazakhstan holding Astana Finance Days
- Central Asia: Four ways to transform landlocked countries
- Tajikistan president names priorities of country’s long-term development
- Deals worth $4.7 billion signed at Kazakhstan Global Investment Roundtable
- Kazakhstan is a country for your business, PM says to investors
- Uzbekistan: improved irrigation to help farmers in Karakalpakstan
- EBRD and GEF support ‘green’ X-Fit Premium in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan: AIFC announces strategic partners and first clients
- Kyrgyzstan: wrong agreements and poor management affect the energy sector
- Russian government approves draft convention on legal status of Caspian Sea
- Kazakhstan automakers ready to set up serial production of electric vehicles
- Astana to host Kazakhstan Global Investment Roundtable
- Uzbekistan builds transit hub at border with Afghanistan
- Making dynastic rule fashionable again: the case of Turkmenistan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Next steps in the merger of Eurasian Economic Union and Belt and Road Initiative
- Kazakhstan: Foreign Ministry to support Shymkent and Turkestan region’s development
- Kyrgyzstan: Jazz Bernstein musicians to perform concerts in Bishkek
- Taliban resumption of fighting should not bury Afghanistan’s peace process
- USAID helps Kyrgyzstan garment producers break into international markets
- EBRD and EU promote export engagement of Turkmenistan SMEs
- Kyrgyzstan and EU address reforms and development cooperation
- Iran opens new trade link under Silk Road plan from China via Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan: President addresses the Parliament and nation
- Chinese company to manufacture electric vehicles in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan-Japan business forum held in Astana
- ADB approves $300 million loan to support economic reforms in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan: authorities extradite Kazakh opposition activist
- EU and Kyrgyzstan discuss cooperation on human rights
- OSCE Central Asian Youth Network seminar focuses on Innovating Central Asia
- New mine in Kazakhstan starts gold concentrate production
- Donors approve 3-year partnership framework and financing program for Afghanistan
- EU, AKDN launch project to boost Afghanistan-Tajikistan border trade
- UN’s Mainstreaming, Acceleration and Policy Support mission in Kyrgyzstan
- ADB provides additional support to improve water management in Tajikistan
- HRW urges German tech firm to disclose dealings with Turkmenistan government
- Uzbekistan frees US citizen accused of joining IMU, fighting in Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan: court OKs extradition of Kazakh opposition activist
- EU extends Border Management in Central Asia program
- Central Asia countries restoring forest landscapes
- Uzbekistan and Spain hold business forum in Tashkent
- Afghanistan and Uzbekistan to set up free trade zone
- Kyrgyzstan: government asks citizens help pay off state debts
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: expedition to climb summit of Altay for Sustainable Development Goals
- EU provides emergency relief to flood victims in Tajikistan
- EU and Turkmenistan hold their annual Human Rights Dialogue
- Kyrgyzstan’s ex-president paying the price for years of abrasive rule
- Water can be a true source of prosperity for Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: Almaty builds a high-tech Japanese plant
- Uzbekistan taking an active approach to WTO accession
- OSCE-supported legal framework for business development in Kyrgyzstan adopted
- Kazakhstan: Senate speaker signals Nazarbayev won’t run in 2020
- China’s Eximbank funds construction of hydropower plants in Uzbekistan
- Presidents of Turkmenistan and Tajikistan speak for enhancing transport cooperation
- In Tajikistan, World Bank vice president highlights importance of water for development
- Afghanistan: High Peace Council hopes peace talks with Taliban will take place this year
- Uzbekistan: Ferghana farmers seek fortune in Karakalpakstan wilderness
- OSCE supports Water for Sustainable Development conference in Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan introduces non-cash pension system amid economic woes
- Uzbekistan ready to host peace talks between Afghanistan government and Taliban
- Nominee to head US forces in Afghanistan warns against premature withdrawal
- As SCO admits new members, Central Asian countries want greater focus on economic issues
- Kyrgyzstan: another former prime minister detained on corruption charges
- United Nations system in Kyrgyzstan refuses single-use plastic
- Uzbek-born U.S. citizen detained on visit to relatives in Uzbekistan
- Afghanistan: ‘Peace Convoy’ arrives in Kabul after 700-km march
- Several injured in Moscow as taxi driven by Kyrgyz national strikes pedestrians
- EBRD helps to improve healthcare in Kyrgyzstan
- World Bank to spend $460m on Afghanistan-Pakistan economic corridor project
- New rape case in Kyrgyzstan highlights need for immediate action to end ‘bride kidnapping’ — Amnesty International
- Kyrgyzstan: After hot debates, Parliament approves Government’s report for 2017
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Islamic State emboldened in Afghanistan
- ADB strengthens support for Uzbekistan’s horticulture sector
- Afghanistan president says Pakistani Taliban chief ‘confirmed’ dead
- Kyrgyzstan: ensuring safer school buildings helps protect students from natural disasters
- Afghanistan and China can boost trade within Belt and Road Initiative
- Kyrgyzstan: State Registration Service’s new Capacity Development Centre opened
- USAID deputy assistant administrator promotes trade, cooperation on first visit to Turkmenistan
- Taking the U.S.-Uzbekistan relationship to the next level: Mirziyoyev’s historic visit
- Afghanistan and Uzbekistan to discuss trade, transit, and investment
- Kazakhstan reports 3.9% economic growth in 5 months of 2018
- Afghanistan: Taliban vows ‘bright future’ when US troops leave the country
- Italy’s Eni to develop large-scale wind farm in Kazakhstan
- Report: Russia chides Kazakhstan on US cooperation
- Afghanistan: Taliban troop strength estimated at 77,000 fighters
- Uzbekistan simplifies registration of foreign tourists
- Uzbekistan hosts conference on role of youth in countering violent extremism, radicalization
- Kyrgyzstan: prosecutors reject motion to retry jailed opposition leader
- Kazakhstan and renewables: make-believe or visionary trend-setting?
- Kazakhstan: Go Viral festival kicks off for the 2nd year in Almaty this week
- India continues to oppose China’s Belt and Road Initiative
- EU–Central Asia environmental cooperation focuses on green investments
- Tajikistan: OSCE office hosts visit to assess projects funded by Japan
- USAID supports development of a modern cold chain in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan to launch cluster for production of solar panels
- Chinese companies launching high-tech production in Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan launches National Export Strategy with EU support
- At SCO summit, member states support China’s Belt and Road Initiative
- Central Asia improves ailing road infrastructure
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: rehabilitation of saline lands in the Aral region
- Kyrgyzstan and US Peace Corps mark 25 years of cooperation
- Kyrgyzstan: buyers and investors discuss new opportunities in agriculture
- Tajikistan: no laughing matter as comedian journalist goes on trial
- EBRD teams up with China company to build a solar plant in Kazakhstan
- Uzbek Stockholm truck attacker sentenced to life in prison
- Kyrgyzstan: Supreme Court cuts prison terms of three opposition politicians
- Afghanistan: president announces temporary truce with Taliban
- Uzbekistan: OSCE holds first annual Business Forum on Green Technologies
- Russian oil company to develop block in Kazakhstan sector of Caspian Sea
- Trade union leaders freed in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan, China establish strategic partnership, to cooperate within Belt and Road Initiative
- Kyrgyzstan: ex-President Atambayev makes political statement following high-profile arrests
- The Bolshevik Revolution centennial and the disintegration of the Soviet space
- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan border guards brawl on disputed land
- Kazakhstan’s renewable energy capacity to reach 490 MW in 2018
- China launches meteorological satellite for Belt and Road countries
- Kyrgyzstan: former prime minister, ex-mayor of capital arrested in corruption case
- Kazakhstan’s returnees frustrated by cold shoulders
- Uzbekistan to create free tourist zone near Tashkent
- FAO, GEF launch project to nurture natural resources in Central Asia, Turkey
- Kazakhstan presents its investment opportunities in Germany
- Afghanistan: Muslim clerics declare current war un-Islamic
- India and Kyrgyzstan deepen their military cooperation
- Kyrgyzstan: agriculture forum to explore trade and investment opportunities
- Russian company to help Uzbekistan draft agriculture development strategy
- Afghanistan’s foreign trade decreases
- Kazakhstan’s geographic society completes expedition to Aral Sea
- Top manager of major mining company under house arrest in Kyrgyzstan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Tajikistan: Muslim leader declares boxing, other fighting sports forbidden
- World Bank provides economic update for Kazakhstan
- OSCE supports establishment of National Preventive Mechanism against Torture in Uzbekistan
- How Kyrgyzstan’s new president turned on his mentor
- Kazakhstan launches construction of Big Almaty Ring Road
- Turkmenistan hosts OSCE regional conference on good governance, economic connectivity
- UN urges Kyrgyzstan to stop bride kidnapping
- Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev to become life-long Security Council chairman
- The Tashkent conference on Afghanistan: too much diplomacy, too little solution
- Uzbekistan: IFC issues first-ever local-currency bond to support Uzbek SMEs
- Tajikistan needs decisive measures to restore confidence in the banking system — IMF
- Tajikistan and Russia hold cooperation conference in Dushanbe
- Afghanistan: US commander says some Taliban interested in peace talks
- Afghanistan: poppy cultivation and drug production up by 90%
- Saudi Arabia expected to host Islamic conference on peace in Afghanistan
- First Kazakhstan-France Investment Forum held in Paris
- Toxic Aral Sea salt storm hits Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
- Kyrgyzstan’s former Prime Minister faces corruption charges
- Kyrgyzstan: green activists sound alarm over air pollution in Bishkek
- 70m euro needed for remediation of uranium legacy sites in Central Asia
- Qingdao Summit to become new milestone in SCO development — Chinese FM
- Afghanistan and Pakistan agree to cooperate in fighting terrorism
- Kazakhstan: court shuts down independent news site
- Is Kazakhstan’s political opposition creeping back?
- EEU railways are a strong link in trans-Eurasian transit — report
- Kyrgyzstan to scale-up disaster and climate change resilience with World Bank support
- Turkmenistan: journalist released after serving prison sentence
- Littoral states move toward agreement on legal status of Caspian Sea
- Leadership shuffle in the Kazakh Armed Forces: what is behind the changes?
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan to focus on private sector development
- ADB’s $145 million loan to help improve water supply services in Uzbekistan
- IAEA helps improve cancer care in Tajikistan
- Moscow set to establish second military base in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan: USAID bolsters local transport and logistics companies
- Kazakhstan: legislative amendments liberalize business regulation
- United States bans import of cotton products from Turkmenistan
- United States has failed to stabilize Afghanistan — US report
- Uzbekistan: Hizb ut-Tahrir trial a testbed for religious boundaries
- Symposium to address China’s ‘harsh policy towards Uyghurs’
- Uzbekistan ups car production, to introduce new models
- Kazakhstan and China provinces cooperate in rail container transportation
- Tajik Muslim scholars accuse Iran of attempts to destabilize Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan’s neutrality irks Russia and strains bilateral ties
- Kyrgyzstan: ethnic minorities need equal treatment, says senior UN official
- US and Iran trade accusations over Tehran’s alleged support of Taliban in Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan: Amnesty International visits country for first time in 14 years
- Kyrgyzstan: Supreme Court upholds ex-prosecutor-general’s sentence
- Afghanistan: poppy cultivation continues to increase fueling insurgency
- Chinese company to build factory producing pulp and paper from reeds in Kazakhstan
- China’s group considers creating investment fund in Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan: people protest outside Iranian embassy against alleged support for banned Islamic party
- US report says ‘few signs of progress’ in Afghanistan war under Trump plan
- Kyrgyzstan: former top Atambayev official faces corruption charges
- Afghanistan resurrecting the country’s largest hydropower plant
- US sanctions may affect trade along India-Iran-Afghanistan corridor
- Kazakhstan makes agreements with foreign companies at Astana Economic Forum
- Kazakhstan: media watchdogs urge government to revise ‘false information’ law
- Kyrgyzstan: power plant blame game threatens political showdown
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: labor migrants need social protection, investment incentives
- UNDP holds event ‘Urban ratings of the quality of life in Kazakhstan’ at Global Challenges Summit in Astana
- Tajikistan: better irrigation and water management to help farmers increase crop yield
- Uzbekistan: a new model for reform in the Muslim world?
- World Bank provides $940 million in financing for new projects in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan: EBRD arranges int’l financing of Baikonur solar power plant
- Kazakhstan hosts Central Asian Forum on Internet Development
- EEU and China sign agreement on trade and economic cooperation
- Tashkent syndrome: is Uzbekistan getting a free pass?
- EEU and Iran sign provisional agreement to create free trade zone
- Kazakhstan invites Germany to invest, take part in privatization program
- Tajikistan to assemble Belarus’ agricultural machinery
- Uzbekistan’s president makes ‘historic’ visit to US
- Afghanistan: government forces push back Taliban from western city of Farah
- U.S. inventor conducts aviation modeling seminars in Kyrgyzstan
- Belarus considers Tajikistan as a bridge to develop cooperation with Central Asia countries
- Kazakhstan attracts investors from Italy
- Outcomes of Kazakhstan’s investment week in Turkey
- Tajikistan: Saudis to acquire stake in troubled bank
- Another Russian military base in Kyrgyzstan may be set up to respond to threats coming from Afghanistan — Jeenbekov
- Turkmenistan halves import/export tariffs for Afghanistan goods
- Qatar explores investment opportunities in Kazakhstan
- US to push Uzbekistan president on rights, economic reform
- A decade of China-Europe trains
- Kyrgyzstan to host World Mountain Forum 2018
- US helps preserve Turkmenistan’s cultural heritage
- FAO opens greenhouses in Tajikistan schools
- Uzbekistan frees jailed activist ahead of president’s visit to US
- Kyrgyzstan marks 25th anniversary of national currency
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Uzbekistan: government decree to eradicate forced labor in the country
- Tajikistan man sentenced to nearly 10 years for sharing banned party videos
- Afghanistan: U.S. general says Taliban ‘cannot win militarily’
- Tajikistan: turning pigs into sheep, and other plagiarism adventures
- IMF commends economic reforms in Uzbekistan
- Canadian company to invest $1.3 billion to build solar power plant in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan’s president to visit US
- Kazakhstan: police detain dozens demanding release of political prisoners
- Turkmenistan’s new Turkmenbashi international seaport another link in expanding Eurasian trade
- Kazakhstan holding investment week in Turkey
- Afghanistan to export agro products to Russia, Kazakhstan via Uzbekistan
- ADB assessing renewable energy projects in Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan’s tycoon reportedly detained in Moscow
- Uzbekistan to keep two separate records of incoming tourists
- Kazakhstan to host Go Viral Festival for Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: EBRD and EU support energy efficiency in Jalal-Abad kindergarten
- Tajikistan: sustainable management of natural resources helps communities adapt to climate change
- China’s Belt and Road Initiative: relieving landlocked Central Asia
- Artefacts from Turkmenistan’s ancient kingdom displayed in Berlin exhibition
- Afghanistan: president calls the country’s poverty rate ‘shameful’
- Kazakhstan creates new military units to combat cyberthreats
- Uzbekistan: journalist walks free after closely watched trial
- Kazakhstan is Central Asia’s migration outlier
- New report explores potential of agriculture for Afghanistan’s growth
- Turkmenistan to ban cars of all colors except white by summer
- Kazakhstan: UNDP and EU delegation visits early flood warning system in Aktobe
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to boost trade, economic cooperation
- Kyrgyzstan searching for ways to get out of debts
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Tajikistan: high-level int’l conference focuses on countering terrorism, extremism
- Afghanistan: Iran accuses ‘US’s allies’ of supporting Taliban, Islamic State
- Kyrgyzstan: government and WFP team up to improve food security and nutrition
- Faced with Chinese expansion, Kazakhstan seeks alternative energy markets
- Kazakhstan is a very attractive country for investors — Agris Preimanis
- Central Asia: CAREC and BRI seek broader collaboration
- Tajikistan: OSCE supports World Press Freedom Day conference in Dushanbe
- Afghanistan: third district in Badakhshan province falls to Taliban
- Energy, transportation dominate Turkmenistan president’s visit to Tashkent
- Kazakhstan expands the range and volume of exports
- Kazakhstan and Britain discuss investment projects
- Kazakhstan and Poland to strengthen trade and economic cooperation
- Turkmenistan opens new port on Caspian Sea
- Central Asia after Astana: from integration to cooperation
- Kazakhstan accounts for over 70% of all investments in Central Asia
- French sports goods and equipment producer enters Kazakhstan market
- Iran ready to swap Turkmenistan gas for delivery to Pakistan
- Afghanistan: number of government’s security forces drops 10%
- Navigating Xinjiang’s security checkpoints
- Kyrgyzstan: EU mission held seminars on GSP+ requirements in Bishkek, Osh
- ADB provides $90 million to Tajikistan to rehabilitate major road
- Uzbekistan and Turkey sign deals worth $3 billion
- Islamic State attack kills the most media workers ever in Afghanistan
- Central Asia countries to increase exports of halal products
- Kazakhstan: ultra-marathon marks creation of Ile-Balkash Nature Reserve
- Kazakhstan: Astana’s Saryarka district signs investment agreements for $100 million
- China and India planning joint development projects in Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan: president orders ministers to move to villages to taste real life
- Russia deploys teachers to Tajikistan on goodwill mission
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan building effective partnerships with international donors
- OSCE media freedom representative welcomes positive developments in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan: ousted prime minister becomes deputy chairman of ex-president’s party
- US-Kazakh accord to use Caspian ports as Afghan support hubs irks Moscow
- Turkmenistan developing social work practice for children and families
- Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan launch JV in Osh
- Business forum France–Kazakhstan held in Astana
- Kyrgyzstan: ex-PM Isakov questioned, ex-president’s another associate fired
- Kyrgyzstan and its government: New names, old faces, uncertain future
- Kyrgyzstan hosts Central Asian tourism forum
- FAO-Turkey program to protect forests in Central Asia
- Iran hopes to settle gas dispute with Turkmenistan without int’l arbitration
- Afghanistan: Taliban announces launch of spring offensive
- Kyrgyzstan: Centerra calls proposal to sell Kumtor mine ‘market speculation’
- Kyrgyzstan ranks third most vulnerable to climate change impacts in Central Asia
- Islamic State militants moving to Central Asia — Russian defense minister
- Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s foreign ministers meet in Beijing
- Eurasian Economic Union and Iran move toward establishing free trade zone
- Tackling the roots of Uzbek terror
- Afghanistan: former president Karzai again blames US for deteriorating security
- China to deepen cooperation with SCO states for regional stability, security
- Kazakhstan: Astana Economic Forum to have a new format and global agenda
- Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan strengthen economic cooperation
- ADB helps to enhance energy security in Afghanistan
- Russian companies to showcase products in Uzbekistan
- Russia suggests Tajikistan to get observer status in Eurasian Economic Union
- Turkmenistan: young men prevented from leaving the country
- Russia’s LUKOIL commissions gas processing plant at Kandym fields in Uzbekistan
- Centerra provides update on strategic agreement with Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan has 30th cabinet for 26 years of independence
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Afghanistan will not negotiate with Islamic State and other foreign militants
- OSCE promotes community policing in Tajikistan
- New Prime Minister appointed in Kyrgyzstan
- China’s policy bank investment profits from Uzbekistan’s monetary policy reform
- Kazakhstan expanding business ties with South Korea
- CARITAS Germany marks 10th anniversary of activities in Tajikistan
- Afghanistan: USAID supports women-owned businesses to become more competitive
- Kyrgyzstan: President accepts government resignation after parliament’s no-confidence vote
- Association of Credit Information Providers in Europe and Central Asia established
- FAO promotes horticulture in Kyrgyzstan for increased farm productivity
- IFC making largest ever microfinance investment in Kazakhstan
- Rights watchdog urges Kazakhstan to halt criminal proceedings against woman accused of funding Nazarbayev foe
- Kyrgyzstan: rival camps play appointments ping-pong as government teeters
- Kazakhstan holding investment week in South Korea
- OSCE supports discussion on solar energy road map in Turkmenistan
- US and Tajikistan commemorate World Tuberculosis Day
- Kazakhstan: European delegates meet local prisoners
- A Chinese base in Central Asia
- Presidents of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan expected to meet soon, report says
- Kazakhstan: expedition to study Northern and Southern Aral Sea areas
- Kazakhstan to create electronic atlas of sacred heritage
- Afghanistan: Taliban rejects Kabul’s offer to take part in parliamentary election
- Turkey’s authoritarian turn deprives Tajiks of safe haven
- USAID installs 125 signs for tourists across Kyrgyzstan
- AIIB to help build two solar parks in Afghanistan
- CPJ urges Kazakhstan to ‘stop harassing journalists’
- Kazakhstan: first ever Central Asian Maker Faire amazes Almaty
- Uzbek government eases restrictions on Muslims
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Central Asia’s economic evolution from Russia to China
- Kyrgyzstan makes gains towards profitable aquaculture sector
- EBRD and GCF invest in hydro power plant in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: China demands to protect investor after locals burnt gold-processing plant
- Kazakhstan: new maritime shipment service launched along Trans-Caspian route
- Kazakhstan and China to build steel pipe plant in Almaty
- Kyrgyzstan president discusses relationship with EU in Brussels
- Tajikistan and OSCE discuss cooperation under renewed mandate
- Private sector investment needed to support growth in Afghanistan — ADB
- Kazakhstan protecting investors’ rights
- Tajikistan needs more productive employment to boost growth, ADB says
- Growth in Central Asia to reach 4% in 2018 — ADB report
- Kyrgyzstan: parliament backs prosecutor-general’s sacking
- Kyrgyzstan: high-profile dismissals, arrests in the energy sector
- American and multi-ethnic Latin pop songstress to give concerts in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
- World Bank to improve livelihoods of communities in Kyrgyzstan
- World Bank provides $691 million to improve Afghanistan’s economy, healthcare
- Tajikistan: government seeks extradition of two opposition politicians from Turkey
- US helps to spur trade connectivity between Central Asia and Baltic nations
- Tajikistan invites Russia to Central Asia water conference in Dushanbe in June
- Former Afghan president says only Russia can help Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan to cut electricity tariff for Afghanistan
- Turkey deports hundreds of Afghan migrants back to Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: Islamic State a deadly force in Kabul
- Forum to focus on Uzbekistan’s economic modernization under President Mirziyoyev
- Turkish company considers investment in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan to launch projects worth $7 billion with foreign investors in 2018
- Turkey ready to host meeting on peace process in Afghanistan
- As Kyrgyzstan marks April Revolution Day, President Jeenbekov fires his predecessor’s loyalists
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Tajikistan: remediation of uranium mining legacy sites takes step forward
- HRW urges Kazakhstan to stop using libel laws to ‘harass journalists’
- Pakistan’s PM visits Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan: Centerra to invest $25 million to extend Kumtor gold mine’s life
- Kazakhstan: international experts on President Nazarbayev’s social initiatives
- Afghanistan: Kabul dismisses ex-President Karzai’s remarks on US support of IS
- Kyrgyzstan: Islamist couple jailed for not allowing children to attend school
- Kazakhstan: online news site’s editor accused of libel
- Kyrgyzstan: in Kazarman, nothing gold can stay
- Chinese ambassador on relations with Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan: public sector employees urged to take unpaid leaves
- First regular container train along Poland-China route passes through Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan: Turkish company to build pesticide factory in Almaty region
- Kyrgyzstan: University of Central Asia holds health fair in Naryn
- Kazakhstan: government approves economic forecast for 2018
- Another wheat shipment for Afghanistan arrives in Iran’s Chabahar from India
- Afghanistan: USAID donates $25 million to WFP for vulnerable Afghan people
- Kyrgyzstan: CPJ launches campaign to free jailed activist
- Breaking Tajikistan’s banks: the north falters as ruling family cements position
- China–EEU–EU rail container transit to grow explosively by 2020 — report
- Turkmenistan: customs prohibits imports of hair colors and dyes
- Afghanistan: about 40% of population suffers from food insecurity — WFP
- Kazakhstan: authorities raid offices of Forbes magazine
- The Kremlin strategy in Baikonur: putting Kazakhstan’s space program in a box?
- Kazakhstan: Dutch company to build potato processing factory in Almaty region
- Kazakhstan considers complete ban of digital currencies
- Kazakhstan helps develop capacities of women public health professionals from Afghanistan
- Turkmenistan: president appoints his son deputy foreign minister
- Kyrgyzstan: ex-President Atambayev makes comeback to politics
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Frequent changes of Government are not good for Kyrgyzstan
- US embassy promotes Silk Road connectivity with bike trip across Turkmenistan
- Afghanistan: Russian official dismisses US claims that Moscow supplies arms to Taliban
- Scholar contemplates the limits of change in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan ready to fund part of Afghanistan railway project
- Kazakhstan developing fish and food industry in Aral Sea region
- Uzbekistan: journalist denies plotting to overthrow government
- Kyrgyzstan: fugitive former presidential candidate faces coup-plotting charges
- What Turkmenistan president’s visit to Gulf means for TAPI pipeline project
- Turkmenistan: USAID supports local producers with export promotion
- IFC supports expansion of food sector in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan: National Bank launches securities trading app
- Uzbekistan: journalists, critics still face censorship, ‘selective prosecution’ — rights watchdog
- Uzbekistan, Tajikistan: as the Karimov wall crumbles, families reunite
- US businessman to represent Uzbekistan’s IT-sphere in Silicon Valley
- ADB grant to further improve transport connectivity in Tajikistan
- Iran’s president visits Turkmenistan to enhance cooperation
- Uzbekistan: Tashkent conference backs Afghan government’s peace offer
- Uzbekistan offers to host peace talks between Afghanistan government and Taliban
- EU foreign policy chief meets with Central Asia foreign ministers in Tashkent
- Central Asia strengthens climate and weather services
- Kyrgyzstan: rural women receive assistance from Swedish funds
- Uzbekistan: notorious old prison in Tashkent to be replaced with park
- Situation around two projects will not affect Kyrgyzstan-China relations
- Iran’s president to visit Turkmenistan
- Tajikistan president addresses water issues
- Kyrgyzstan: Switzerland helps local municipalities improve living conditions of people
- Turkmenistan: parliamentary election seen as potential lift to president’s son
- The reemerging self-confidence of Central Asia
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan continues to adopt innovations in fight against tuberculosis
- Two opposition politicians from Tajikistan detained in Turkey
- Kazakhstan: police hunt for people with blue balloons in search for opposition supporters
- Turkmenistan: female public-sector employees told not to use nail polish
- Kazakhstan and Tajikistan renew joint efforts to curb Islamic extremism
- US adds Uzbek militant group fighting in Syria to global terrorist list
- Iran becomes Afghanistan’s largest trade partner, followed by Pakistan, China
- Turkmenistan border guards kill Iran’s fishermen in Caspian Sea
- Central Asia ready to move on without Russia
- World Bank-funded project to support digital transformation in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan plagued by currency woes
- Tajikistan: US donates regional training center to local nuclear safety agency
- Afghanistan: dozens killed in Islamic State attack in Kabul on new year holiday
- Work permits to foreigners simplified in Kyrgyzstan
- Russia’s Chelyabinsk to host BRICS and SCO summits in 2020
- World Bank study addresses childhood malnutrition and stunting in Tajikistan
- Switzerland helps to open a kindergarten in Kyrgyzstan
- USAID supports Kyrgyzstan at Berlin Tourism Exhibition
- US military giving up on Kyrgyzstan
- British company helps improve heat and power supply in Uzbekistan city
- EU-funded project cleaning up toxic and radioactive waste in Central Asia
- Death of teacher ‘forced to clean streets’ sparks controversy in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan: rights activist released after 8 years in prison
- Taliban and ISKP attacks foreshadows violent year in Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan to set up free economic zone producing sports goods
- Dutch university to help create agricultural park in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan: EBRD provides post-privatization support to power utility company
- EBRD Board Directors to visit Uzbekistan
- For Russia and China, cooperation is the name of the game in Central Asia
- Central Asia countries rebuilding regional integration
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Astana rejects Russian FM statement on visa-free travel to Kazakhstan for Americans
- Kazakhstan: participants from 21 countries meet for KazGrain 2018 conference in Astana
- Uzbekistan: problems with freedom of expression, penitentiary system, women’s rights remain, EU says
- Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus develop rail transportation between China and Europe
- EBRD provides loan to packaging producer in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan to host ‘Women empowerment in Afghanistan’ conference this autumn
- Kazakhstan’s machine-building industry attracts Czech technologies
- Uzbekistan: president renames security service, assigns new duties
- Kazakhstan: house arrest for pregnant woman accused of funding Nazarbayev foe
- First Central Asian summit since 2009 signals improving regional ties
- Kyrgyzstan: media watchdogs urge authorities to end restrictive media practices
- Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan at nexus of security problems of Central Asia, China, Afghanistan and Russia
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to boost economic cooperation, trade
- Kyrgyzstan: agrifood exporters learn about entering European, Chinese markets
- Cooperation between Uzbekistan and EU discussed in Tashkent
- Kazakhstan: former economy minister sentenced to 10 years for corruption
- Economic diversification key to Kazakhstan’s future stability
- Kyrgyzstan: Kumtor gold output accounted for 9.7% of country’s GDP in 2017
- Kazakhstan: economy shows steady growth in January-February
- Still no request from Taliban to attend Tashkent conference on Afghanistan — Uzbek foreign ministry
- Iran accuses US of supporting Islamic State militants in Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan labels fugitive tycoon’s political movement ‘extremist’
- Afghanistan: on surprise visit, Mattis sees ‘Taliban interest’ in peace talks
- The transformation of the Uzbek-Tajik relationship
- Tajikistan: improved tax administration can increase investment, boost economic development
- Turkmenistan: president boasts country’s role in regional infrastructure projects
- Japan provides $1 million for demining project in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: Kabul blames Taliban for not responding to peace offer
- China to provide military assistance to Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province
- Tajikistan and European Union hold Cooperation Committee Meeting
- Turkmenistan: Caspian region sustainable development addressed at seminar
- IMF stands ready to support economic reforms in Turkmenistan
- For Tajikistan’s asylum seekers, Poland is a dead end
- The odd couple: why Iran is backing the Taliban
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: Francophonie week 2018 in Bishkek
- Uzbekistan, Tajikistan vow strategic partnership
- Uzbekistan and South Korea hold business forum in Tashkent
- One Belt One Road and the risks behind the win-win situation
- Kazakhstan set to boost non-primary exports
- Kazakhstan allows US nonmilitary transit to Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: UN envoy calls on Taliban to accept Ghani’s peace talks offer
- Kyrgyzstan: high-level resignation points to trouble at the top
- Uzbekistan: Tashkent conference to help Afghanistan gov’t, Taliban start peace talks
- Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China now have shortest motor transport corridor
- Turkmenistan: people unable to use bank cards abroad
- Expanding trade between Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia countries
- Tajikistan’s Islamist extremists concentrated in big cities at home and in Russia
- Afghanistan makes sustained health gains despite insecurity — World Bank report
- Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland launch new project to improve population’s health
- Kyrgyzstan: president says Russia undecided on second military base
- Uzbekistan: daughter of late president steps down from Gymnastics Federation
- Uzbekistan prepares for opening new free economic zone
- Russian company to explore for copper and gold in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan: president comes up with large social initiatives
- Kazakhstan railway company discusses cargo transportation in Eurasia
- Uzbekistan explores new markets at Fruit Logistica Berlin 2018 fair
- Kyrgyzstan: US gov’t supports conference on community policing, crime prevention
- Can state benefit payments reduce poverty in Kyrgyzstan?
- Kazakhstan: key directions for agro-industrial sector development identified
- Afghanistan: Taliban group in Herat ready to join peace process, guard TAPI project
- Moscow, Washington on US and Russia influence in Central Asia
- Kazakhstan becomes 57th state to sign Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
- Russia pushes CSTO countries to legalize private military and security companies
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Turkmenistan’s Plan B: electricity exports
- Kazakhstan: ferroalloy plant to be built in Karaganda in first half of 2019
- Uzbekistan: opposition journalist released after 19 years in prison
- Government reshuffle in Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan’s steady drift away from Kazakhstan
- Made in Kyrgyzstan: USAID partners secure export contracts for $6 million in 2017
- Uzbekistan president to visit Tajikistan
- EBRD and EU launch Regional Small Business Programme in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan: regional symposium to tackle the deadly threat of TB
- Kyrgyzstan, EU to advance development cooperation, trade, investment
- Son of Kyrgyzstan’s ex-ambassador arrested in US on gun-smuggling charges
- Kyrgyzstan and UK building stronger trade and investment ties
- EDB forecasts its member states’ growth to reach 2.2% in 2018
- Uzbekistan set to boost exports, double fruit and vegetable export
- Kazakhstan and Indian logistics companies explore transport cooperation
- Afghanistan: Taliban says no peace talks until foreign forces exit country
- Will the ‘Uzbek Gorbachev’ succeed — or be allowed to?
- Turkmenistan: Turkish company stops construction of Ashgabat-Turkmenbashi road
- Kazakhstan to boost attraction of foreign investments
- EU-Kazakhstan Cooperation Council reviews bilateral partnership
- Afghanistan: Kabul says ready for talks with Taliban
- Pakistan-Russia counter-terrorism cooperation
- Kazakhstan: government and foreign business discuss investment climate
- Kazakhstan developing logistics and transport infrastructure in Caspian Sea
- Turkish companies to implement investment projects in Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan: Turkey takes control of schools linked to Gulen
- Deepening Central Asian nonproliferation partnerships
- Uzbekistan: president sets new tasks for tourism industry
- Kazakhstan says speed of trains on China-Europe transport corridor should increase
- Kazakhstan and Italy agree on agricultural cooperation
- 2nd UK Trade Mission to strengthen partnership between Kyrgyzstan and British businesses
- Kyrgyzstan: healthcare minister under fire for anti-corruption efforts
- Kazakhstan and corruption: young blood, old habits
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- EDB to invest EUR 196 million in Kazakhstan’s coal mine project
- Afghanistan: Taliban says will help ensure security of TAPI gas pipeline
- Work starts on Afghan part of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline
- Kazakhstan FM calls on European Union to expand presence in Central Asia
- US donates $1.3 million living quarters complex to Tajikistan defense ministry
- UNDP launches initiative to prevent violent extremism in Central Asia
- Afghanistan ranks as the world’s 4th most corrupt country
- Uzbekistan: former chief prosecutor ‘arrested’ in latest sign of ongoing purge
- ADB reviews implementation of projects in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan has lowest corruption level in Central Asia — survey
- Uzbekistan to cancel preferences for production localization projects
- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan target at sustainable forest management
- Eurasian Development Bank loans $50 million to Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund
- EU-Tajikistan Subcommittee on Development Cooperation meets in Dushanbe
- Tajikistan: banned Islamic party activist forcibly returned from Turkey
- Moscow warns of risk of IS penetration from Afghanistan to Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: Astana International Financial Center to hold presentation July 5
- Kazakhstan: president’s decree makes changes in new Latin-based alphabet
- Kazakhstan: Kyrgyz lawmaker held after smuggling sweep
- EU helps improve identification and profiling of foreign terrorists in Uzbekistan
- New motor transport corridor: from Uzbekistan to China via Kyrgyzstan in 2 days
- Kazakhstan hosts international symposium on reviving Aral Sea region
- Kazakhstan: prosecutor asks 12 years for former economy minister
- Central Asian terrorist groups join jihad against U.S. after declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
- Kazakhstan invites Italy to access new markets via Eurasian Economic Union
- Kazakhstan FM discusses cooperation plans with EU ambassadors
- Kazakhstan: Almaty may host UN hub to implement SDGs in Central Asia
- Iran, India reach Afghanistan, Central Asia by developing Chabahar port
- Kazakhstan steps up campaign against ultra-Orthodox Islam
- Kyrgyzstan to reduce regional imbalances
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Syrian-trained terror suspect detained in Kyrgyzstan
- ADB supports trade in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan border impasse: finding a way out of a tight spot
- Youth from Central Asia countries, Afghanistan take part in debate tournament
- Turkmenistan produces export-oriented oil products
- Hungarian craft professionals teach rural people in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
- US, China, Germany, France, and Turkey are Kazakhstan’s priority countries to attract investment
- Kazakhstan, UN discuss business sector role in promoting Sustainable Development Goals
- Kazakhstan moves to expand, strengthen National Security Council
- ILO reports progress on child and forced labor in Uzbekistan cotton fields
- Switzerland supports optimization of local services in Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan: teacher fired for not listening to president’s televised address
- China–Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan–Afghanistan–Iran railway corridor to boost regional economies
- Taliban letter urges US to withdraw from Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan and South Korea review ongoing and new projects
- Kazakhstan and Japan to hold economic cooperation meeting in April
- Kazakhstan to start issuance of identity cards in Latin script in 2021
- Army chiefs of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan meet in Kabul
- Uzbekistan: tax and customs agencies raided in ‘major investigation’
- Kyrgyzstan: journalist charged over investigative report on luxury homes
- Kyrgyzstan: largest hydropower plant modernization achieves key milestone
- Kazakhstan: visa-free and open-sky regimes needed for tourism development
- Kazakhstan and China discuss industrialization and investment cooperation
- Afghanistan: president meets with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan army chiefs
- Kyrgyzstan: health of jailed politician on hunger strike ‘worrisome’
- Pakistan in the SCO: challenges and prospects
- Swiss company to help Uzbekistan launch electronic trading platform
- Kazakhstan has used crisis ‘as a chance’ — prime minister
- Kazakhstan sends another train with wheat to Vietnam
- Kazakhstan and Mongolia to cooperate in agricultural and organic production
- Kyrgyzstan: president says fighting corruption his priority
- TAPI enters Afghan phase with little cash and many problems
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- What is China’s military doing on the Afghan-Tajik border?
- Stockholm attacker from Uzbekistan linked to Tajik IS militants — investigation
- EU and Afghanistan launch new phase of cooperation
- Reforms reach Uzbekistan’s most formidable bastion of power
- Kazakhstan’s manufacturing industry sees growth in 2017, plans new projects
- Medical schools to receive first textbook about tuberculosis published in Kyrgyzstan with US support
- Russia says US behind Daesh infiltration of Afghanistan, ready to host talks with Taliban
- China welcomes Uzbekistan to host int’l conference on Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan focuses on water efficiency to ease water sharing with China
- Uzbekistan racing against time to avoid energy crunch
- New survey assesses business environment in Uzbekistan
- Afghanistan: US supports mining sector development
- Tajikistan: election law changes seen designed for president’s son
- Kyrgyzstan: former prosecutor-general’s prison sentence upheld
- Tajikistan, most Muslim country in Central Asia, struggles to rein in Islam
- Kazakhstan introducing halal standards based on Malaysian experience
- Uzbekistan: government provides incentives for tourist industry
- Uzbekistan simplifies visa regime for tourists from February 10
- Iran says US relocating IS militants to Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan: self-exiled activists urge British sculptor not to create Karimov statue
- Uzbek-Chinese-Arab JV building new cement plant in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan: Spanish company to help develop halal tourism
- Kazakhstan and Greece to strengthen cooperation, expand trade
- Labor migration abroad, remittances can help boost Afghanistan’s growth
- Kazakhstan launches online platform for monitoring greenhouse gases
- Uzbekistan: activist freed after 9 years in prison
- Kyrgyzstan: US gives one billion KGS to support healthy nutrition of children
- EBRD helps to clean up Tajikistan’s second largest city
- Outcome of Kazakhstan’s presidency of UN Security Council
- Turkmenistan and China enhance tourism cooperation
- Turkmenistan: prices of gasoline and flour grow
- Kyrgyzstan: female journalist asks president to legalize polygamy
- Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan to renew economic cooperation, resolve border issues
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- China’s ‘soft power’ in Central Asia both more and less than it appears
- Uzbekistan: late president’s daughter steps down as UNESCO envoy
- As Uzbekistan’s last Stalinist politician exits scene, what next?
- Turkish company to take part in building Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan power transmission line
- Kyrgyzstan: economic growth exceeds expectations in 2017 — IMF
- IS militants in Afghanistan target Central Asian states, Russia — Moscow
- Afghanistan: government says report on Taliban control of country areas ‘groundless’
- Tajikistan: banned Islamic party leader on trial in absentia
- Tajikistan resumes building Turkmenistan-China pipeline
- Is there an agreement on Caspian Sea delimitation?
- Spain to help Uzbekistan introduce VAT refund system, develop tourism
- Turkmenistan: IFAS adopts action plan for Aral Sea salvation
- Tajikistan: first unit of Rogun hydro plant to be launched in November, Italian company says
- Kazakhstan to attract $40 billion through AIFC in 10 years
- Uzbekistan: powerful national security chief dismissed
- Management style needs to be changed in Kyrgyzstan’s energy sector
- Kazakhstan: a Disneyland may appear in Almaty region
- Kazakhstan: Government and National Bank outline economic policy for 2018
- Iran to file arbitration lawsuit against Turkmenistan over price and quality of gas
- EBRD and EU launch small business program for Central Asia
- Iran’s Supreme Leader says US ‘relocating Daesh to Afghanistan’
- Uzbekistan: late president’s grandson asks for asylum in Britain
- Central Asia-Caucasus Institute releases paper on Uzbekistan’s foreign policy
- Uyghur Human Rights Project condemns death in custody of scholar in Xinjiang
- Khorgos hosts Kazakhstan-China business forum
- US, World Food Programme partner to defeat malnutrition in Tajikistan
- Afghanistan: Trump rejects possibility of negotiations with Taliban
- Uzbekistan: former interior minister detained
- The high toll of traffic injuries in Central Asia: unacceptable and preventable
- Tajikistan: new plant to assemble Turkish buses in Dushanbe
- Uzbekistan to discover new oil and gas fields as domestic fuel production declines
- Kazakhstan attracts foreign investors to energy saving projects
- Kazakhstan to hold first bidding for renewable energy projects
- World Bank to help improve management of public finances in Afghanistan
- Islamic State gains ground in Afghanistan as its caliphate crumbles elsewhere
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Smog over Kyrgyzstan capital city: causes, effects, and solutions
- Half-hearted reforms may erode social stability in Kazakhstan
- Xinjiang Uighur ‘reeducation camps’ overflowing, reports say
- World Bank to help improve heating and hot water services in Uzbekistan
- Tourism to account for 8% of Kazakhstan’s GDP by 2025
- Kazakhstan planning 72-hour visa-free regime for Indian citizens
- Beijing rejects reports of China military base in Afghanistan
- Afghanistan: Kabul hotel attack sparks fear among foreign investors
- Kazakhstan: U.S. lawyer to defend jailed businessman
- Tajikistan: is Islamic banking the future?
- Tajikistan: aluminum production declines due to outdated equipment
- Turkmenistan and Great Britain hold Trade and Industrial Council meeting
- New rail service delivers fruit from Pakistan to Kazakhstan via Iran, Turkmenistan
- War-torn Afghanistan ‘no place’ for refugees ‘to be returned to’ — report
- Kazakhstan says freeze lifted on $22 billion in sovereign-fund assets
- Uzbekistan & Tajikistan: catalysts for a regional water solution?
- Turkmenistan: entrepreneurs must now pay to pension fund
- Uzbekistan, Afghanistan halve mutual transit fees for trucked goods
- Kazakhstan: 100MW wind power plant to be built near Astana
- Kazakhstan to open new domestic and international air routes
- All restrictions on flights to EU countries lifted from Kazakhstan airlines
- The more things change, the more Kazakhstan stays important
- Kazakhstan: businessman a hostage in Astana-Ablyazov feud?
- Kyrgyzstan: president signs the law ‘On Conflict of Interests’
- Kazakhstan: Energy Ministry reveals plans for 2018
- Kazakhstan produces 86 million tons of oil, exports 70 million tons in 2017
- Kazakhstan offers to host Ukraine peace talks
- Behind Uzbekistan’s bus tragedy, a story of grinding despair
- Iran reaffirms support for Afghanistan stability, says US failed to improve security
- Afghanistan to be linked to China via Uzbekistan railway
- Turkmenistan: Saudi Arabia invests in TAPI gas pipeline
- Afghanistan: 14 foreigners, including Kazakhstan citizen, killed in Kabul hotel attack
- Crime and corruption a serious concern in Kyrgyzstan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: MPs accuse Government of agriculture decline
- UN chief urges cooperation among Central Asia countries and Afghanistan
- Gas cooker said to be cause of deadly bus fire in Kazakhstan
- Russia and US speak for talks between Afghanistan government and Taliban
- Iran’s Chabahar port empowers India-Afghanistan trade at Pakistan’s expense
- Kazakhstan expects to earn up to $5.5 billion through sale of state assets
- World Bank pledges support for Uzbekistan’s ambitious reforms
- Central Asia leaders should end repressive policies — watchdog
- UK funds project to improve local governance in Afghanistan
- At least 52 Uzbekistan citizens killed in bus fire in Kazakhstan
- A year in review: Uzbekistan pursues liberalization at home, neighborly relations abroad
- CACI to hold a forum event on Uzbekistan’s new foreign policy
- Uzbekistan’s export grows in 2017, reaching $14 billion
- Kazakhstan railways company signs contracts with US companies
- World Bank, EU to help improve irrigation and food security in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan, US sign business deals worth $7 billion during Nazarbayev visit
- In Kyrgyzstan, World Bank vice president highlights need for new growth model
- USAID and FAO launch agricultural project in western Afghanistan
- Russian foreign minister on US policy in Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: government approves action plan to implement president’s address
- Uzbekistan to build small mosques to attract tourists from Muslim countries
- Kazakhstan and US commit to enhanced strategic partnership
- Kyrgyzstan’s economic growth in 2017 exceeds the IMF forecast
- Business expects role of national currencies to strengthen in EEU payments — report
- Turkmenistan: authorities launch ‘witch hunt’ to save ailing economy
- UN Security Council reiterates support for efforts to restore peace in Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan: court jails members of ‘Holy Russia’ group for inciting hatred
- Astana grapples with growing sinophobic sentiment in Kazakhstan
- US expert on America’s role in Central Asia
- WB supports Kazakhstan’s commitment to fiscal consolidation, economic transformation
- Uzbekistan: ambassadors tasked to attract investments, tourists to country
- EBRD supports France’s Urbasolar in Kazakhstan
- A year in review: Kazakhstan pursues domestic reforms, foreign direct investment in 2017
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway to improve attractiveness of Central Asia
- A year in review: more problems, more reforms, more cooperation for Central Asia in 2017
- Upgraded interactive map of legal services now available for Kyrgyzstan citizens
- Taking the temperature of Turkmenistan’s economic meltdown
- Kazakhstan reports sustained economic growth in 2017
- China’s Huawei to implement Smart City project in Kyrgyzstan
- 2017 the ‘bloodiest’ year ever for journalists in Afghanistan — report
- Tajikistan and Uzbekistan agree on visa-free regime
- Uzbekistan: business empire of Karimov’s other daughter under attack
- China to fully fund Afghanistan military base to safeguard its Xinjiang province
- Report criticizes US program to revive Afghanistan economy
- Uzbekistan delivers 25 buses to Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan prime minister visits Tajikistan to improve ties
- World Bank forecasts growth in Central Asia to slow except in Kyrgyzstan
- Container train tests China–Kazakhstan–Turkmenistan–Iran rail route
- Kazakhstan president to visit US
- Moldovan businessman threatens to force sale of Kazakhstan’s Kashagan oilfield stake
- Kazakhstan president speaks on digitalization, banking sector recovery
- Kyrgyzstan: officials fired, reprimanded over EEU customs rules ‘failure’
- Uzbekistan: president announces fence-mending visit to Tajikistan
- China reconstructs motor roads in Tajikistan cities
- Kyrgyzstan: Chinese firm and local miners resolve labor dispute
- Kazakhstan: at corruption trial, former economy minister apologizes to Nazarbayev
- Pakistan may cut off supply route for US forces in Afghanistan
- Turkmenistan wants white vehicles only, reportedly bars women from driving
- UNICEF helps to improve access to drinking water in Afghanistan
- European Union to assist Afghanistan in expanding trade and exports
- Kyrgyzstan renews the World Nomad Games concept
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Turkmenistan striving to attract tourists
- Kazakhstan highlights priorities of its chairmanship of UN Security Council
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan resume bus service
- Kyrgyzstan: opposition politician jailed for corruption
- Uzbekistan: abandoning import substitution policy?
- Kazakhstan: new campaign to develop charity, social responsibility of business
- US says Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan violate religious freedom
- US suspends aid to Pakistan until action taken against Afghan terror networks
- Kyrgyzstan to review its civil aviation policy
- Kazakhstan: taxi industry a bellwether for the economy
- China and Russia Tajikistan’s largest foreign investors
- China building railroads in Iran as part of Belt and Road initiative
- Afghanistan: authorities pledge to ensure security of CASA, TAPI projects
- Uzbekistan: jailed entrepreneur keeps faith in the system
- US to announce ‘specific actions’ against Pakistan over harboring Afghan terrorists
- China and Russia Uzbekistan’s main trade partners in 2017
- Turkmenistan aims to become the heart of Great Silk Road in 2018
- Kazakhstan reduces inspections of businesses
- Kazakhstan ups grain and flour shipment by rail in 2017
- Afghanistan and Uzbekistan to start transit of goods soon
- Black cars reportedly banned in Turkmenistan
- Trump accuses Pakistan of giving safe haven to terrorists ‘we hunt’ in Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan boasts export increase in 2017
- Kazakhstan assumes presidency in UN Security Council
- EBRD promotes modern solid waste treatment in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan: Bank of China to take part in EBRD Shalkiya Zinc syndicated loan
- Kyrgyzstan to build toll roads through private financing
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan improving quality of education through digital technology
- Uzbekistan and Russia sign nuclear cooperation agreement
- Kyrgyzstan: tour guides receive international certification
- Tajikistan: searching for food security
- Approval of EEU by member states’ population down by 10% — survey
- IS gets foothold in Afghanistan northern regions bordering Central Asia
- Tajikistan: increased vulnerability to potential shocks despite sustained growth
- Kyrgyzstan: suspect detained in killing of opposition politician’s brother
- China interested in establishing link between Pakistan and Iran ports
- IFC, Fresenius Medical Care partner to provide dialysis treatment in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan: EBRD helps local bakery to launch new products
- Uzbekistan: city mayor fined for insulting teachers in public
- Uzbekistan: hundreds fired from finance ministry after president’s criticism
- Kyrgyzstan president says IS ideology spreading in Central Asia
- Afghanistan civil servants to train at University of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: Smart City projects implemented in five largest cities
- New cargo corridor from Pakistan to Russia via Iran and Kazakhstan
- China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to be extended to Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan: government approves bill on currency regulation and control
- FDI growth in EEU member states from Asian countries expected in 2018
- Kazakhstan to repair about 1,500 km of roads annually until 2020
- Afghanistan: army chief rejects Russia’s figures on IS militants in the country
- Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan normalize relations
- Kyrgyzstan: patients with drug-resistant TB start more effective treatment
- US completes food fortification project in Tajikistan
- EBRD supports SME and trade in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan awards foreign investors
- Alstom becomes majority shareholder in Kazakhstan locomotive JV
- Agricultural cooperatives in Kyrgyzstan: experience and potential
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Italy’s Eni expands the scope of activities in Kazakhstan hydrocarbon sector
- Uzbekistan: president vows reforms in first state-of-the-nation address
- Turkmenistan: U.S. embassy brings American musicians to Ashgabat
- Single power supply ring restored in Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan and FAO sign new cooperation agreement
- Uzbekistan: EBRD provides $30 million to support local SMEs, promote trade
- Kazakhstan and EBRD to work on diversification and modernization of economy
- US court sentences Kazakhstan citizen to 15 years for conspiring to support IS
- Kyrgyzstan: HRW calls on president to improve human rights situation
- Facilitation of regional rail transport discussed at Kazakhstan meeting
- Afghanistan: trade and investment decline due to insecurity
- OSCE donates equipment to assist in disaster risk reduction in Tajikistan
- Court decisions limit press freedom in Kyrgyzstan, watchdog says
- Kyrgyzstan: EBRD, Kyrgyz Investment and Credit Bank support sugar producer
- Kyrgyzstan: opposition politician says his TV channel ‘seized by raid’
- The Belt and Road through Eurasia: who wins and how?
- Uzbekistan: red peppers will be grown on low-yield cotton fields
- ADB continues support to improve investment climate in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan: officials impound TV station property owned by opposition politician
- EU and Kyrgyzstan launch negotiations for new agreement
- America, EU, Japan: time to reunite Afghanistan with Central Asia
- Bank loans, deposits decrease in Tajikistan
- Xinjiang: thousands of Uyghurs reportedly held in Chinese reeducation camps
- Tajikistan: EBRD helps expand lending to small and medium business
- IMF to disburse $26.9 million to Kyrgyzstan
- ADB provides $400 million in aid for Afghanistan development projects
- Kazakhstan and Qatar expand trade and investment cooperation
- Kazakhstan discusses joint projects with leading British companies
- World Bank supports agricultural business opportunities in Tajikistan
- Afghanistan: US urges Taliban to seek talks with Kabul government
- Russia still interested in Kyrgyzstan’s energy sector
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- The dynamics driving Uzbekistan’s warming relationship with Afghanistan
- EBRD continues to promote climate change resilience in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: father of suspects in St. Petersburg subway bombing loses Russian citizenship
- Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan: friends forever?
- Kyrgyzstan: Switzerland will support OSCE Academy in Bishkek for next three years
- ADB improves economic outlook for Central Asia
- EBRD helps promote safe and sustainable roads in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan: economy rising, yet again driven by oil
- Caspian pact paves way for Turkmen gas exports to Europe – eventually
- Kazakhstan and Russian railways increase China-Europe container transit
- $450 million ADB loan to help modernize power generation in Uzbekistan
- EBRD governor for Uzbekistan addresses Bank’s Board of Directors
- Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan pledge ‘strategic’ partnership
- IFC, UK and Switzerland help improve investment climate in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan restoring closer military ties with Russia
- Eurasian Economic Union countries see Russia as main ally — poll
- Kazakhstan and Czech Republic set up Business Council
- Kazakh-British Business Council meets in London
- Coal miners’ strike spreads in Kazakhstan
- ‘Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane’ translated into Kyrgyz
- Tajikistan: how a broke government keeps its books balanced
- Kazakhstan: modern warehouses will be built at Khorgos-Eastern Gates SEZ
- UNRCCA hosts meeting of foreign ministers of Central Asia and Afghanistan
- Indian companies to build CASA-1000 power line in Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan: Kazatomprom increases share in joint venture with Cameco
- Kazakhstan: new mobile app helps to boost capacity of dairy farmers
- Afghanistan needs to ‘prepare for lower external support’ — IMF
- Turkmenistan: GDP grows 6.5 percent in January–November
- Afghanistan to start its part of TAPI gas pipeline project soon
- Kazakhstan: first automobile ferry sent from Kuryk port on Caspian coast
- Kyrgyzstan: why sell profitable state-owned mobile operator?
- What does Kazakhstan’s new military doctrine reveal about relations with Russia?
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: foreign investment on the rise after recession
- EBRD new project to support reliable power supply in Kyrgyzstan
- USAID helps to launch most advanced fruit logistics center in south Kyrgyzstan
- Trans-Caspian Transport Route to launch regular container train from China to Turkey, Georgia
- Kazakhstan: fiscal consolidation vital for country’s adjustment to new normal
- OSCE and Uzbekistan commit to enhanced cooperation
- Uzbekistan president criticizes Navoi logistics center for poor performance
- Uzbekistan: president pardons 2,700 convicts in mass amnesty
- Eurasian Economic Union: many problems, few solutions
- Turkmenistan: public-sector employees may be cut by 30% amid economic woes
- India to send first cargo through Int’l North South Transportation Corridor
- ADB provides $330 million to Afghanistan to complete national ring road
- Kazakhstan: president calls on business leaders to bring wealth back from abroad
- Kazakhstan: Kazatomprom announces uranium production cuts
- Uzbekistan: new visas allow longer stays for foreigners
- Kyrgyzstan to withdraw WTO complaint against Kazakhstan
- Convention on legal status of Caspian Sea to be signed in first half of 2018
- Turkmenistan to take $1.8 billion gas dispute with Iran to international arbitration
- Uzbekistan and Afghanistan sign railway deal
- Kazakhstan: prime minister promises paradise for foreign investors
- Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan territorial disputes threaten regional stability
- Austrian business explores investment opportunities in Turkmenistan
- Digital Kazakhstan program to create 300 thousand jobs by 2022
- Kazakhstan: stock exchange of Astana International Financial Center ready for operation from Jan 1
- Kyrgyzstan approves OSCE recommendations for removing regulatory barriers to business
- Is Chabahar port a game changer in India-Afghanistan-Central Asia trade?
- Solar capacity ups by more than half in developing nations: cases of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: USAID connects guest houses, yurt camps to int’l booking systems
- Kyrgyzstan: OSCE trains public sector, business and civil society on business ethics, anti-corruption measures
- Iran opens key port for India-Afghanistan-Central Asia trade corridor
- HIV stigma in Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan set to resolve border problems
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Belarus seeks to enter Afghanistan’s market through Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan: president’s decree says evidence obtained under torture inadmissible in courts
- Afghanistan president stresses regional cooperation at Heart of Asia summit
- Turkmenistan starts railroad construction from its border into Afghanistan
- Tajikistan: OSCE establishes youth network of gender champions
- Kyrgyzstan: Supreme Court upholds rulings that ‘muzzle free speech’, HRW says
- Kazakhstan: a central Almaty street named after President Nazarbayev
- Kyrgyzstan: protesters bring underwear to Kazakh embassy in protest over Kazakh documentary
- Uzbekistan: starting to grapple with labor migration issue
- Kyrgyzstan: Switzerland helps local municipalities provide quality services to population
- Turkmenistan: US helps preserve traditional music recordings for posterity
- Afghanistan, Uzbekistan launch direct air flights
- Kazakhstan and Belarus to increase trade up to $1 billion in 2020
- Kyrgyzstan’s new president vows to strengthen ‘strategic partnership’ with Russia
- Has Central Asia stabilized?
- Kazakhstan: new energy efficiency plans for Astana and Almaty
- Japan to help improve economy in border areas between Afghanistan and Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan: government approves country’s development plan until 2025
- Kazakhstan in talks with China over problems reported by ethnic Kazakhs in Xinjiang
- Kyrgyzstan new president’s visit to Russia signals foreign-policy vector
- New railway route from China to Europe through Russia: bluff or tactical ploy?
- For Daesh, Afghanistan is another springboard in the region, Afghan ex-president says
- Kazakhstan launches new, faster rail service to deliver grain to China
- Former president of Kyrgyzstan awarded with National Hero title
- Kazakhstan: rights activist sentenced to 3.5 years on fraud charges
- ADB supports first solar power plant in Afghanistan
- Turkmenistan: 2018 state-budget revenues to go down
- Kazakhstan and Finland cooperate in green technologies
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan set to increase bilateral trade to $5 billion a year
- ICD provides $10 million line of financing to Kyrgyzstan’s micro-credit company
- Uzbekistan: secrets of hospitality for rural population
- China striving to boost energy imports from Turkmenistan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Turkmenistan to rebuild railway link to Afghanistan
- Trade and development agencies join forces to boost Central Asia’s capacity to export
- Kyrgyzstan: new president inaugurated
- Germany to provide $93 million in aid to Afghanistan
- Turkmenistan expands economic ties with Russia’s regions
- Uzbekistan, Korea agree on trade, finance, light-industry, pharmaceutical cooperation
- Uzbekistan president visits South Korea
- Kazakhstan: financial illiteracy hampering economic recovery
- Kyrgyzstan: USAID helps to launch largest fruit and vegetable processing facility in Jalal-Abad oblast
- Turkey ready to invest $5 billion in Kazakhstan
- ADB grants $30 million for technical and vocational education in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan: focus on cement production
- Switzerland grants medical equipment to health organizations in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan launches ‘cyber shield’ concept
- Uzbekistan: loans help farmers sell more fruits and vegetables
- Kazakhstan: export of agricultural and food products on the rise
- ADB helps Tajikistan to attract investments, develop private sector
- Economic growth in Afghanistan to increase slightly in 2017 — World Bank
- Kazakhstan and Central Asia: international terrorism without borders
- EDB upgrades growth outlook for member states, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan president to visit South Korea
- Coca-Cola reportedly stops production in Turkmenistan
- At final press conference, outgoing Kyrgyzstan president says he will remain in politics
- Top US general in Afghanistan reveals plan to drive back Taliban, announces war on drugs
- Controversial railway project consolidates China’s foothold in Central Asia
- EDB countries, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, show economic growth
- USAID presents results and way forward to improve women and children nutrition in Kyrgyzstan
- Chinese company to build $1.6 billion aluminum plant in Tajikistan
- New power transmission line to be built from Uzbekistan to Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan ensures smooth operation of country’s largest gold mine
- Russia tacitly entices Uzbekistan with benefits of EEU, CSTO membership
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- ADB approves first full country partnership strategy for Turkmenistan
- IMF welcomes Uzbekistan efforts to improve investment climate
- Reform in Uzbekistan: pain precedes gain
- Police in Tajikistan start investigation into week-old attack on opposition leader
- Afghanistan the world’s 2nd worst country on new Terrorism Index
- Uzbekistan holds Central Asian International Exhibition
- Kyrgyzstan rejects Kazakhstan’s $100 million EEU aid
- Trans-Caspian International Transport Route to increase cargo transportation
- First container train sent from Finland to China via Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan opium production up 87% in 2017, report says
- OSCE promotes use of service dogs to ensure border security in Turkmenistan
- Agreement on Afghanistan-Europe transport corridor signed
- Outgoing president of Kyrgyzstan continues war of words with Kazakhstan
- Turkmenistan hosts regional forum on cooperation in water resources management
- Kazakhstan, UNDP hold global symposium on South-South development exchange
- European Union, Central Asia partners achieve results in disaster risk reduction
- OSCE promotes cooperation among Central Asia, Afghanistan law enforcement agencies in countering drugs trafficking
- Opposition party leader attacked in Tajikistan
- Man convicted for ‘inciting ethnic hatred’ on social network in north Kazakhstan
- Turkmenistan: Iran, Saudis dangle exits from energy cul-de-sac
- New fruit processing facilities expand agriculture production in south Kyrgyzstan
- Babanov steps down as leader of Kyrgyzstan’s opposition parliamentary faction
- ‘Leader’ of banned Islamic group detained in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan, Russia and UAE consider joint space industry projects
- ADB to provide $80 million loan for Uzbekistan railway electrification project
- Turkmenistan adjusting to new reality of lower oil and gas prices, IMF says
- Kyrgyzstan’s growth continues across most sectors — IMF
- First cargo shipment from India arrives in Afghanistan via Iran’s Chabahar port
- Uzbekistan president promotes cooperation among Central Asia states
- RSF calls on EU to press for media freedom in Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan creates new traffic police department in an anti-corruption drive
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Number of traffic accidents on the rise in Kyrgyzstan
- Central Asian countries sign cooperation program at EU-Central Asia meeting
- OSCE, Tajikistan Defence Ministry to establish Regional Explosive Hazards Training Centre
- Investment opportunities of Kazakhstan and AIFC presented in London
- EU ready to start talks on new bilateral agreement with Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD underlines commitment to Uzbekistan
- EBRD lends $10 million to Uzbekistan’s leading juice producer
- Kyrgyzstan’s expelled ruling party official seeking asylum in US
- NATO to increase number of troops in Afghanistan
- Switzerland helps to improve conditions for preschool children in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan’s first container train arrives in Turkey along Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway
- Uzbekistan to host EU-Central Asia ministerial meeting
- EBRD opens office in Tashkent, provides $120 million for new projects in Uzbekistan
- EBRD helps register Kazakhstan wind farm under domestic carbon credit scheme
- Meeting in Astana to discuss future tourism development in Kazakhstan
- ‘Traveling along the Great Silk Road of Kazakhstan’ festival to start Nov 10
- EBRD predicts growth of Kazakhstan economy in 2017
- Kazakhstan saving troubled Bank RBK
- Turkmenistan lowers limit for ATM withdrawals abroad
- All UN volunteers working in Central Asia met in Kazakhstan
- Exhibition dedicated to local self-governance in Kyrgyzstan is open in Bishkek
- Kazakhstan and Russia to hold forum of interregional cooperation
- Trade between Afghanistan and Iran on the rise
- EBRD to open new office, sign new projects in Uzbekistan
- Exiled rights activist’s mother targeted in Turkmenistan — rights watchdog
- Honorary consul of Canada appointed in Uzbekistan
- Brother of convicted opposition lawmaker shot dead in Kyrgyzstan
- Russia and Iran to jointly construct Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline
- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan bicker over contraband
- UN and Afghanistan planning new aid spending strategy
- Criminal case initiated against MP Omurbek Babanov in Kyrgyzstan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: president sees red over collapsing bank
- As Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan border tension continues, prime ministers trade accusations
- USAID builds capacity of tourist guides in Kyrgyzstan
- Are newly-built high-rise buildings safe in Kyrgyzstan?
- Tourism a driver of development in Central Asia — World Bank
- Kyrgyzstan renames Soviet-era October Revolution Day
- Documents worth $26 million signed at 7th Central Asia Trade Forum
- Turkmenistan president visits Tajikistan to expand cooperation
- French ambassador explores potential of Kazakhstan’s Kostanay region
- Uzbekistan a global top improver for third time — Doing Business report
- Economies in Central Asia continue reform agenda — World Bank
- Turkmenistan holds international oil and gas exhibition and conference
- Japan looks to investment opportunities in Kazakhstan regions
- Russia may export natural gas from Iran to Pakistan and India
- Russian business to invest in Afghanistan
- New ADB strategy to support inclusive, sustainable growth in Afghanistan
- ADB to support Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan power transmission line project
- In Tajikistan, relatives of fugitive colonel convicted for attempt to join IS in Afghanistan
- Planned railway line to connect Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Iran
- Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway launched to link Europe, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Central Asia
- EBRD supports expansion of major food retailer in Kazakhstan
- OSCE hands over video surveillance equipment to Kyrgyzstan National Security Committee
- Outgoing president drafting strategy for Kyrgyzstan development until 2040
- Kyrgyzstan to compensate losses caused by Kazakhstan border bottleneck
- Microfinance in Kyrgyzstan: poor services, high interest rates
- IMF and Swiss government support transparency of fiscal statistics in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan companies introducing energy efficiency technologies from Expo-2017
- Afghanistan to open largest industrial park in Kabul
- Uzbekistan providing state support to privatized enterprises
- India launches new trade route to Afghanistan via Iran, reaching out to Central Asia
- World Bank to help Kyrgyzstan improve heat supply
- Uzbekistan & Turkey: is it love?
- The Afghan conundrum
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan president says hopes for EEU were ‘too high’, as dispute with Kazakhstan continues
- US brings new shorter treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Kyrgyzstan
- ADB commits over $5 billion to support new strategy for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation
- Kazakhstan adopts new military doctrine
- President Nazarbayev orders transition to Latin-based alphabet in Kazakhstan
- EDB accounts for 60% of private sector financing by MDBs for CIS countries
- Kazakhstan to manufacture rail freight cars
- WFP helps Tajikistan to strengthen emergency preparedness and response
- ADB president visits Tajikistan to strengthen partnership
- Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan border crisis remains unresolved
- Uzbekistan president visits Turkey to expand cooperation
- Uzbekistan seeks agricultural cooperation with US
- Kazakhstan developing electronic commerce cooperation with China
- OSCE helps enhance security of energy infrastructure in Kyrgyzstan
- Trade possibilities spurring rapprochement between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
- EBRD awards CLIMADAPT clients in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan hosts OECD Eurasia Week 2017
- Uzbekistan holds international cotton fair
- Switzerland supports service improvement at local level in Kyrgyzstan
- Russia criticizes Afghanistan president for accusations of supporting Taliban
- China party congress subordinates regional, global engagements to national interests: what it means for Central Asia?
- US says ‘moderate’ Taliban can be part of Afghanistan government
- Uzbekistan combats money laundering and financing of terrorism in banking sector
- OSCE supports sustainable waste management in Uzbekistan
- Freight turnover ups along Western Europe–Western China corridor in Kazakhstan
- Turkmenistan’s currency falls on black market as country faces economic crisis
- Kazakhstan faces three kinds of separatist threats
- Eurasian Development Bank debunks myths about EEU
- Turkmenistan’s new locomotive depot to link Central Asia countries to Persian Gulf ports
- Kazakhstan looking for investors in Defense Industry Development Fund
- New book of Turkmenistan’s president focuses on Great Silk Road
- Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan border tension harms both countries
- Divorces and feminization of labor migration become a problem in Kyrgyzstan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- New American Space opens in Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan is going to refuse from $100 million in aid from Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan undertake resolving their water disputes
- Kyrgyzstan’s president-elect should make rights a priority — HRW
- Kazakhstan sends millionth ton of cargo across Caspian from Kuryk port
- Kazakhstan participates in Eurasian Economic Forum in Verona, Italy
- Kazakhstan presents privatization plans at Hong Kong Investor Day
- Rights group urges U.S. to protect LGBT community in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan’s thorny road: Sooronbay Zheenbekov inherits burdensome legacy from his predecessor
- Kazakhstan to host next round of Syrian peace talks on Oct 30-31
- EBRD to fund Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline to supply Caspian gas to Europe
- Uzbekistan seeks to buy crude oil from Iran
- US sponsors Central Asia trade forum ‘Future Growth: Trade, Transport & Horticulture’
- Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan agree to resolve border crisis
- Will the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway become Uzbekistan’s new connection to Europe?
- World Bank helps Central Asia to end poverty, build middle class
- Tajikistan creates registry of LGBT people
- First-ever golf course opens in Turkmenistan
- Kazakhstan’s economy shows growth in Jan-Sept
- Leader of Russia’s Chechnya visits Uzbekistan, discusses cooperation
- Kyrgyzstan reviving sugar processing industry
- Another rights advocate released in Uzbekistan, after 8 years in jail
- EU-funded program hands over equipment to narcological clinic in Tajikistan
- TAPI gas pipeline to reach Turkmenistan-Afghanistan border by January
- Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, US try to restart Afghan peace talks
- Presidential election: Kyrgyzstan choses to keep its political establishment in place
- Candidate alleges violations in Kyrgyzstan presidential vote, but says ‘people have made their choice’
- Report underscores growing popularity of Islamic social finance in Central Asia
- US helps to strengthen Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan tourism cooperation
- Afghanistan becomes permanent member of AIIB
- EBRD to cooperate with China’s Belt and Road, including in Central Asia
- Jeenbekov leading vote count in Kyrgyzstan presidential election
- Moscow bribes Bishkek to stop Kyrgyzstan from changing to Latin alphabet
- European Union discusses human rights with Tajikistan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Forum in Turkmenistan promotes economic cooperation on Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan President Atambayev calls presidential candidate foreign ‘flunky’
- Kazakhstan’s Election Commission will not send observer to Kyrgyzstan election
- Afghanistan’s bloodshed: virtually everyone is profiting
- Leading member of Tajikistan’s banned Islamic Renaissance Party detained in Greece
- Freedom of religion ‘vital investment’ for Uzbekistan reforms — UN Special Rapporteur
- Bottleneck at Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan border checkpoints continues amid election feud between countries
- Civilian casualties slightly decline in Afghanistan, with 64% caused by ‘antigovernment elements’
- Turkmenistan starts phasing out discounted household utilities prices
- Kazakhstan’s Almaty to host educational fair of U.S. universities and colleges
- Mutual investments in CIS, including Central Asia, grow as Russian economy recovers
- Hosting of Expo-2017 helped Kazakhstan to attract foreign investors
- Russia hosts SCO’s Afghanistan Contact Group meeting
- Kazakhstan reportedly tightens border with Kyrgyzstan amid election tensions
- Closer Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan ties not enough to resolve broader regional woes
- Afghanistan economy could annually grow 6.5% — World Bank
- Next quadrilateral meeting on Afghanistan to be held in Oman on Oct 16
- Turkmenistan to hold first session of new People’s Council in 2018
- OSCE Parliamentary Assembly observers to monitor Kyrgyzstan presidential election
- Kyrgyzstan’s former chief prosecutor convicted
- Kazakhstan a key hub along Eurasian transport corridor — deputy FM
- Kazakhstan PM comments on Kyrgyzstan president remarks, reiterates ‘strategic partnership’
- Turkmenistan president presents country’s development program for 2018–2024
- EU to launch negotiations on new agreement with Kyrgyzstan after election
- Kyrgyzstan president cancels visit to Russia for CIS summit amid tensions with Kazakhstan
- Business of politics, politics of business: fat cats in Kyrgyzstan’s presidential race
- International Red Cross ‘drastically’ reduces presence in Afghanistan
- Development of free economic and small industrial zones discussed in Uzbekistan
- Manufacturing industry the main driver of growth of Kazakhstan economy
- Opportunities of Kazakhstan special economic zones presented to foreign investors
- Airport services badly need improvement in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan deputy prime minister dies in car accident
- Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan ties reach highest ever level
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- South Korea looking for ways to boost Central Asian trade
- Russia to host meeting on Afghanistan peace process
- Turkmenistan to launch first natural gas to gasoline plant in December 2018
- 2.5 million foreign tourists expected to visit Uzbekistan by year-end
- Gazprom, CNPC, Kazakhstan’s KazMunayGas to develop natural gas filling network on Europe–China route
- Kazakhstan to start natural gas export to China on October 15
- Kyrgyzstan president visits Uzbekistan to cement closer ties
- Russia, Uzbekistan hold first joint military exercise in 12 years, plan further cooperation
- Women farmers boost incomes with new greenhouses in Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD and FAO support Kazakhstan’s dairy sector development
- Daesh threatens Central Asia and Russia from Afghanistan — Russian security chief
- Iran and Russia sign Caspian oil exploration deal, as Caspian legal status is yet to be determined
- Kazakhstan presents investment projects monitoring system
- Kazakhstan and Latvia to increase rail transit from China to Europe
- Uzbekistan: the Tashkent spring experiences a frost
- Government drafts measures to improve business environment in Kazakhstan
- GCF approves major contribution to EBRD Kazakhstan Renewables Framework
- High-ranking official caught taking half-million dollar bribe in Tajikistan
- Rights activist released after 10-year imprisonment in Uzbekistan
- India may establish free trade zone for Afghanistan goods
- Destination CIS: India looks to trade with Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: smears soil election campaign
- Kazakhstan striving to boost small and medium enterprise
- Kyrgyzstan, Russia would not go to court over hydropower project deal cancellation
- Turkmenistan and Russia confirm ‘strategic partnership’ as Putin visits Ashgabat
- USAID supports Kyrgyzstan’s apparel industry debut in Paris
- Uzbekistan: mob war prompts high-level reaction from police
- Turkmenistan’s first high-speed highway to open in 2020
- Kazakhstan ranks 57th on competitiveness list
- EFSD to finance social projects in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan prime minister inspects modernization of Shymkent oil refinery
- The risk of reform in Uzbekistan
- Opposition lawmaker detained in Kyrgyzstan amid planned coup allegations
- Kyrgyzstan developing rural and mountain tourism
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Shorter route opens for passenger trains between China’s Xinjiang and Kazakhstan’s Almaty
- Court frees Kyrgyzstan journalist jailed over his book ‘diminishing role of Islam’
- Uzbekistan: cotton slave labor out, human rights ombudsman in?
- EU has ‘high expectations’ for ‘free and fair’ presidential election in Kyrgyzstan
- Potential of Kazakhstan’s agro-industrial complex presented at Expo-2017
- Kazakhstan holds regional conference on media trends
- EDB acquires $60m worth of Eurobonds of Kazakhstan’s gas transportation company
- Nazarbayev’s gambit on Kyrgyzstan election chessboard: reasons for courting Omurbek Babanov
- Kyrgyzstan trying to sell major mobile operator by direct sale
- Japan funds expansion of hot school meals program in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan and Russia explore new horizons of cooperation
- EU to help Afghanistan curb illegal mining that fuels insurgency
- Pentagon and NATO chiefs pledge continued support for Afghanistan
- Forum to address developing local government capacity, enhancing service delivery in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan residents hope for return to free currency conversion
- EBRD finances expansion of Turkmenistan’s meat producer
- Russian agriculture minister visits Uzbekistan to boost agro imports
- China boosts security presence in Xinjiang
- EBRD launches Women in Business programme in Tajikistan
- India will not send troops to Afghanistan
- EXPO 2017 in Kazakhstan: when the carnival is over
- Afghanistan and India to hold US-sponsored trade and investment show
- Swiss government, EU and EBRD start Small Business Initiative in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
- Russia’s Tatarstan’s president Minnikhanov visits Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan citizens to be allowed to buy foreign cash from October 1
- Russia’s LUKOIL launches new gas facilities at Gissar in Uzbekistan
- How safe is Kyrgyz ‘Stan’?
- Major solar power project launched in Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan’s Kostanai region attracting investors
- Kazakhstan to increase the use of renewable energy sources
- Kazakhstan and Belarus to increase trade up to $1 billion by 2020
- In effort to combat extremism, Tajikistan’s government places further restrictions on what people can wear
- Kyrgyzstan switching to renewable energy
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Language fight in Tatarstan set to ignite political explosion across Russia
- Official fired and tried in Tajikistan over law against lavish parties
- Tashkent to host 1st Uzbekistan-Greece economic cooperation forum
- FAO launches project for secure land, fisheries and forests tenure in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
- Russia and India to explore collaboration in Afghanistan peace process
- Presentation of Central Asia uranium mining legacy remediation needs held in New York
- Training on identifying potential foreign terrorist fighters at borders held in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan authorities trumpet entrepreneurs’ achievements as problems remain
- World Bank report focuses on drinking water, sanitation for households in Tajikistan
- Deals worth $2.6 billion signed at Uzbekistan–US business forum
- Kazakhstan’s Astana International Financial Center to hold presentation in December
- IAEA, Russia’s ROSATOM to cooperate in rehabilitation of uranium legacy facilities in Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan exchange diplomatic notes over Nazarbayev-Babanov meeting
- US helps Kazakhstan research institute remove all of its highly enriched uranium
- Kazakhstan’s new Subsoil Code to attract investment in mining industry
- Uzbekistan hosts ERASMUS+ Week
- Plan to clean up Central Asia uranium mining legacy signed
- At UN, Uzbekistan president outlines his policy for the country and Central Asia region
- Former senior anticorruption officer in Tajikistan sentenced to 15 years
- Afghanistan receives first US helicopters as more US troops on way to country
- Kazakh leader meets with Kyrgyzstan presidential candidate
- Afghanistan, regional security and the Central Asia republics
- Kashagan to become Kazakhstan’s major oil producer in the years to come — expert
- Russia to assess investment opportunities in Afghanistan
- USAID supports development of free economic zones in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan cancels deal with Czech company for major hydropower project
- New ADB strategy for Kazakhstan to support sustainable growth, economic diversification
- Kazakhstan’s NGO receives UNDP’s Equator Prize
- Most of land remains uncultivated in Afghanistan as water flows to Central Asian countries
- Kazakhstan airports prepare to support disaster relief efforts
- Jointly with local private sector, USAID expands export markets for Kyrgyzstan meat
- Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games kick off in Turkmenistan
- Kazakhstan leader visits Uzbekistan, Tashkent hosts Uzbek-Kazakh business forum
- New head of Kyrgyzstan National Bank presents his vision of development
- Kazakhstan: Latin alphabet is not a new phenomenon among Turkic nations
- RSF calls for release of Kyrgyzstan journalist jailed for ‘inciting religious hatred’
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- China to provide $10 billion in loans to Iran for infrastructure projects
- ‘Cyber Shield’ to fight extremism in Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan needs rail corridor via Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan for fruit export to Russia
- Uzbekistan holds international textile exhibitions
- Report on migrant workers’ and human trafficking victims’ rights presented in Kazakhstan
- Repression casts shadow on Asian Games in Turkmenistan, rights groups say
- Uzbekistan a year after Karimov
- India provides more developmental assistance to Afghanistan
- Tajikistan to increase aluminum production to 300,000 tons by 2020
- OSCE supports Tajikistan’s Inter-Agency Secretariat for Border Management and Security
- Islamic Development Bank committed to Tajikistan development projects
- Prime Minister presents Digital Kazakhstan program
- University of Technology Sydney and University of Central Asia collaborate on Communications and Media
- World Bank, Swiss government help improve audit and financial reporting in Kyrgyzstan
- Afghanistan urges India to speed up Iran’s port development
- Kazakhstan government approves new Tax Code
- Kazakhstan and China hold 1st Interregional Cooperation Forum
- Journalist in Kyrgyzstan imprisoned for ‘diminishing the role of Islam’ in a book
- Kazakhstan the key link of transport corridor from Europe to Asia
- Uzbekistan: Turkish business returning, cautiously
- Railway cargo operation between Afghanistan and China depends on Uzbekistan?
- Karakol River Park will improve tourism experience in Kyrgyzstan
- Presidential campaigning starts in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan and Centerra reach settlement concerning Kumtor gold project
- Coal production on the rise in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan to build largest paper factory
- Iran and Uzbekistan seek broader economic, trade and transport cooperation
- Results of EXPO-2017 summed up at KAZENERGY Forum in Kazakhstan
- Turkish companies to invest $590 million in Kazakhstan
- China eyes Iran as important Belt and Road hub
- Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan open new chapter in relations
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Russia says former Tajikistan Interior Ministry commander killed in Syria
- CAREC Institute inaugurated as intergovernmental research organization for Central Asia
- Uzbekistan returns to currency convertibility, delivers blow to black market
- Foreign visitors to Turkmenistan games unaffected by local bans
- Turkmenistan could benefit from India-proposed undersea gas pipeline from Iran
- Uzbekistan to introduce single brand for exported products
- Kyrgyzstan hosts conference on tuberculosis in Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan expanding economic relations, attracting investors
- Switzerland supports family doctors in remote villages in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan and Poland set to boost economic cooperation, trade
- Kazakhstan, World Bank to cooperate in green research and Islamic finance
- Kazakhstan establishes partnership with Italian manufacturing companies
- Major checkpoint on Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan border reopened
- Afghanistan and Pakistani support of militants addressed at China summit of BRICS
- Central Asia Trade Forum, ‘Future Growth: Trade, Transport & Horticulture’, to be held in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan to host KAZENERGY Eurasian Forum in Astana
- Energy intensity of Kazakhstan economy remains high but energy-saving measures taken
- Astana International Financial Centre, Atameken to bring Kazakhstan business to int’l level
- Uzbekistan ready to take part in construction of Kambarata hydro plant in Kyrgyzstan
- UN sums up its participation at EXPO-2017 in Kazakhstan
- Labour migrants from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to Russia amidst uncertain trends
- Afghanistan, China, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan to build new railway
- AIFC presents development concept of Kazakhstan’s green financial system
- Homeowners evicted, their homes demolished in Turkmenistan capital ahead of Asian Games
- BRICS member countries name Pakistan-based groups as security concern
- UNDP helps Turkmenistan improve foreign trade statistics
- Uzbekistan to refuse from selling 15% stakes in authorized capital of JSCs to foreign investors
- South Kazakhstan region attracts investors, tourists
- US and NATO to spend $7 billion to build Afghanistan’s Air Force
- Uzbekistan to liberalize currency regulations, remove restrictions on buying foreign currency
- Tajikistan: counting the cost of a banking meltdown
- Kyrgyzstan exports electricity, increases coal consumption
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- United States partners with Kyrgyzstan to save the snow leopard
- US Peace Corps Volunteers welcome students back to school in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan seeks to export agricultural products to UK
- CAREC countries advance regional road safety strategy for Central Asia
- Turkmenistan opens trading house in Mazari-Sharif in Afghanistan
- President says relations with Central Asian neighbors Uzbekistan’s priority
- Tajikistan, China to launch cross-border railway, road and natural-gas pipeline projects
- Russian Gazprom develops Kyrgyzstan’s natural gas infrastructure
- U.S. embassy awards grant to restore Silk Road site in Turkmenistan
- Turkmenistan, Georgia to cooperate in building Caspian-Black Sea transit corridor
- State TV head, presidential press officer reportedly dismissed in Uzbekistan
- Atambayev vows to ‘punish’ all those who plan ‘disturbances’ in Kyrgyzstan
- Afghanistan and the new US strategy between guns, drugs and conspiracies
- Turkmenistan authorities select spectators for Asian Games from among public sector employees
- Uzbekistan’s regions tasked to attract foreign tourists
- Kazakhstan to take measures to ensure macroeconomic stability
- IAEA launches low-enriched uranium bank in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan’s security forces kill two terror suspects
- Government reviews Kazakhstan’s development plan until 2022
- Minister comments on Muslim clothing in Kazakhstan
- ‘Positive changes’ in Uzbekistan since president Mirziyoev took power — report
- Late Uzbekistan president’s daughter steps down as country’s envoy to UNESCO
- Kyrgyzstan president Atambayev reveals his power succession scheme
- Turkmenistan to build new gas chemical plant
- Kazakhstan can become major exporter of agro products to China and Russia
- Kazakhstan to inaugurate IAEA Low Enriched Uranium Bank’s building
- Afghanistan wants Russia’s help in restoring peace in country – ambassador
- Pakistan PM says new US strategy for Afghanistan will fail
- Kazakhstan: jailed journalist a pawn in a political game
- Young reformer, president’s ally becomes Kyrgyzstan’s new prime minister
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- New US strategy in Afghanistan has no chance for success — Russian FM
- In Kazakhstan, OSCE PA President highlights nuclear disarmament as int’l priority
- Kazakhstan’s Karaganda region, China’s Inner Mongolia discuss energy cooperation
- Qatar Charity launches healthcare, development projects in Kyrgyzstan
- EEU countries hold ‘Eurasian Week’ forum in Kazakhstan
- US pizza restaurant chain to expand to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
- Pakistan rejects US accusations of harboring Afghan Taliban terrorists
- Russia to send teachers and textbooks to schools in Tajikistan
- US Defense Department underreports troop levels in Afghanistan, reports say
- Afghanistan president hails new US strategy, urges Pakistan to change policy
- Tajikistan parliament approves bill supporting ‘traditional clothes’
- Land of Snow Leopard network takes part in Kyrgyzstan forum to preserve snow leopards
- Kazakhstan provides $41m of its $100m assistance to help Kyrgyzstan adapt to EEU requirements
- Facilities in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in the Guinness Book of Records
- Uzbekistan to cancel excise tax on imported raw foods used by domestic producers
- Astana to host forum of business ombudsmen of Kazakhstan and Russia
- Manufacturing industry accounts for 30% of Kazakhstan’s economy
- Television channel critical of president closed in Kyrgyzstan
- Swiss investor buys Kyrgyzstan’s leading dairy company
- Uzbekistan sets up state fund to support private entrepreneurs, small business
- Kazakhstan enters international online trading platform
- Kazakhstan’s foreign ministry attracting investment, promoting exports
- Turkmenistan opens first animal shelter ahead of major sports event in Ashgabat
- US President Trump announces ‘vague’ new strategy for Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan PM Jeenbekov resigns after being registered as presidential candidate
- Kyrgyzstan’s Eurasian Economic Union membership: official view and business opinion
- Challenges to further growth in Eurasian Development Bank member states intensify
- Uzbekistan to double cement production in 5 years
- Turkmenistan bans alcohol in Ashgabat ahead of major Asian sports event
- Russia plans joint military exercises with Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
- The Uighurs and China’s regional counter-terrorism efforts
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Xinjiang: economic realities behind civil strife
- Financial violations and corruption revealed in Kyrgyzstan’s healthcare system
- Kazakhstan investors ready to increase investment in Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan one step closer to remediation of uranium legacy sites
- U.S. embassy helps restore ancient mosaics in Turkmenistan
- 45 new US Peace Corps volunteers arrive in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan’s Almaty and China’s Hainan province establish cooperation
- Turkmenistan on high alert from Aug 17 as Ashgabat prepares to host Asian Games
- Niyazov’s ‘gray cardinal’ dies after a decade in Turkmenistan prison
- China jails ethnic Kazakh man for ‘helping others emigrate to Kazakhstan’
- Uzbekistan PM visits Kyrgyzstan on ice-breaking mission
- IFC helps Kyrgyzstan improve access to high-quality healthcare services
- Kazakhstan ups food production, increases processing and export of agricultural products
- Afghanistan, Belarus set up commission for trade and economic cooperation
- Kazakhstan, Japan to cooperate in rail transportation from Asia to Europe
- Uzbekistan abolishes exit visa system
- Kyrgyzstan opposition leader Tekebaev sentenced to 8 years in prison
- EU and EEU to discuss cooperation at First Business Forum in Greece
- Uzbekistan attracts foreign investment in building materials industry
- Kazakhstan aims to increase foreign direct investment
- Indian company to build Afghanistan part of CASA-1000 power project
- In an ‘open letter’, Taliban urges Trump to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan
- Half of $76 billion US military aid to Afghanistan stolen, analyst says
- UN fully supports Uzbekistan efforts to strengthen regional cooperation in Central Asia
- Manufacturing and agriculture key areas of Kazakhstan-Belarus cooperation
- Eurasian Economic Union boasts increasing trade, economic growth
- EEU to sign free trade agreement with Iran this year
- Trade, economic indicators improve in Eurasian Development Bank countries
- Russia says unidentified aircraft supply arms to IS militants in Afghanistan, analysts claim US connection
- 4th financial institution in Tajikistan joins EBRD climate credit line
- Afghanistan has huge untapped hydro power resources
- Kazakhstan and Belarus set to increase trade, economic cooperation
- Tajikistan’s government lays down rules on what not to wear
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan in the realities of Central Asia’s economic development
- Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan: energy cooperation or competition?
- OSCE and Tajikistan outline priorities for cooperation in 2018
- USAID celebrates World Breastfeeding Week by supporting mothers in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have turned new page in relations — ambassador
- Iran’s embassy dismisses anti-Iran documentary on Tajikistan television
- Kyrgyzstan convicts three IS militants who planned attacks against civilians
- Kyrgyzstan’s opposition leader Tekebaev may get 10-year prison term, barred from presidential election
- US senator McCain proposes new ‘strategy for success’ in Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan: horse milk gallops into the dairy market
- Belarus companies to hold exhibition in Kazakhstan
- EU supports rural and ecotourism project in Uzbekistan
- Insecurity, lack of infrastructure and electricity cause business decline in Afghanistan
- AIIB considering infrastructure projects in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan: evaluating the chances for a convertible currency
- Investments in Uzbekistan up 8.3% in first half of 2017
- EDB provides $5 million credit facility for Kyrgyzstan small and medium business
- Azerbaijan is Turkmenistan’s major partner in Caspian region — Turkmen president
- Dushanbe’s accusations would increase tensions between Tajikistan and Iran
- Kazakhstan: forecast and realities in economic development
- Uzbekistan exports 110 tons of sweet cherries to UK and Singapore
- Kyrgyzstan to host International Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Forum
- India and Iran agree to push forward Chabahar port project
- Three opposition parties in Kyrgyzstan unite, to propose single presidential candidate
- A time of ‘most fruitful cooperation’ has come for Uzbekistan and Russia — FM
- At least 50% of Afghanistan economy might be illegal — statistics
- Turkmenistan launches new buses, taxis as Ashgabat prepares to host Asian Games
- Afghanistan seeks to export dried fruit to Kazakhstan
- Officials in Afghanistan say Taliban, IS teamed up in deadly village attack
- India to help enhance Kazakhstan’s military capability
- Can authorities ensure safety of high-rise buildings in Kyrgyzstan capital?
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Multilateral development banks increase financing for CIS projects
- Afghanistan seeks Czech investment in livestock sector
- Democracy camps empower young civic activists in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan: officials shackle journalists with giant libel damages
- Russia to deliver two An-26 transport aircraft to Kyrgyzstan armed forces
- Uzbek-Chinese JV to build a cement plant in Uzbekistan
- EBRD lends $2 million in local currency for female-run MSMEs and farms in Tajikistan
- Turkish business seeks to expand presence in Turkmenistan market
- Presidential election campaign enters a new stage in Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD finances modernization of district heating in East Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan to cut tax rate for small business in 2018
- Kazakhstan hosts second international women’s forum
- Indian army chief visits Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan to strengthen defense cooperation
- Kyrgyzstan opposition politicians get lengthy prison terms for planning a ‘coup’
- Former parliament member sentenced to 11 years for hostage-taking in Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD and EU foster small business growth in Central Asia
- Uzbekistan to export fruit and vegetables under a single brand
- Turkmenistan president blames officials for ‘inadequately low output’ in agriculture
- First-ever public criticism of late President Karimov aired on Uzbekistan television
- Opposition civil activist sentenced for ‘inciting hatred’ in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan hosts International Army Games contests
- Kazakhstan to rank its regions in terms of ease of doing business
- Kostanai region in Kazakhstan to export flour to China
- Siemens enters Uzbekistan market
- Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan advance with border delimitation talks
- Supporters of jailed opposition party leader start hunger strike in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan: king cotton confronts caper uprising
- Uzbekistan ready to buy part of Russian oil intended for China
- Uzbekistan-Latvia JV to launch logistics center for processing fruit and vegetables
- Russian experts on Kazakhstan-US military cooperation, possible US base in the Caspian
- Russian government, UNDP support renewable energy use in Kyrgyzstan villages
- Hopes and doubts about Czech investment in Kyrgyzstan hydro power project
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- EBRD launches Women in Business program in Tajikistan
- EU creating new employment opportunities in rural areas of Uzbekistan
- Cargo train launched between China’s Ganzhou and Kazakhstan
- Karimova in custody in Uzbekistan for ‘extortion, embezzlement, and tax evasion’
- Uzbekistan to manufacture ambulance cars with Peugeot Citroen
- A Rotary Club business coach trains women entrepreneurs in Kazakhstan
- India says it seeks closer partnership with China based on Astana consensus
- Chile ready to negotiate free trade agreement with EEU
- Tajikistan hosts C5+1 meeting between Central Asia states and the US
- First energy efficient kindergartens open in Kazakhstan’s Aktau city
- Switzerland helps improve water supply in rural Uzbekistan
- US government promotes innovative water management in Tajikistan
- Moscow says reports of Russia’s arms supplies to Taliban in Afghanistan ‘groundless’
- Kazakhstan to gradually introduce teaching in English language
- Kazakhstan to present new, Latin-based alphabet by yearend
- Afghan spillover to Central Asia: cause for concern or Russia’s ploy for influence?
- Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway to attract transit cargo traffic to Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan hosts military sports games of CIS countries
- Uzbekistan to improve tax administration, increase tax collection
- Taliban captures third district in Afghanistan in three days
- Kyrgyzstan president guarantees peaceful transfer of power in October
- Uzbekistan launches 24-hour television news channel
- Business delegation from India visits Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan and China railways to increase cargo transportation by year-end
- IMF welcomes Uzbekistan’s economic reforms plan
- Kazakhstan: space for civil society shrinking?
- Uzbekistan president supports plans to develop tourism in Tashkent region
- Tajikistan’s GDP growth to slow down in 2017, World Bank says
- President says Afghanistan’s tourism industry should be revived
- Taliban take control of two districts in Afghanistan
- Corruption has penetrated state bodies in Kyrgyzstan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan presidential election: leading party poised to reinforce its position
- China to invest in Uzbekistan’s sericulture
- Tajikistan sets up commission to promote clothing to counter ‘alien’ traditions
- Turkmenistan’s foreign minister sent to raise funds for Asian Games
- Belgian company ready to invest in alternative energy projects in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan to open consulate in Russia’s St. Petersburg
- Kyrgyzstan president voices doubts regarding switch to Latin alphabet
- President summons bankers to address acute financial problems in Turkmenistan
- India ‘well-suited’ for greater role in Afghanistan, US Senate committee says
- Kazakhstan’s transport and logistics opportunities presented in Singapore
- More British choose Uzbekistan as their travel destination, with 34% growth this year
- Tajikistan persecutes dissidents’ families, rights groups say
- UNICEF, UK Government launch peacebuilding program for youth in Kyrgyzstan
- Did Kyrgyzstan get sold a hydropower pup?
- Uzbekistan’s agriculture export bank gets banking license
- Kazakhstan’s economy grew 4.2% in first half of 2017
- Tajikistan president’s daughter reportedly named deputy head of major bank
- Court in Kyrgyzstan sentences Akayev’s former son-in-law in absentia
- Switzerland supports service improvement at local level in Kyrgyzstan
- EU grants 21 million euros for horticulture development project in Uzbekistan
- UN report says civilians continue to bear the brunt of Afghanistan’s ‘ugly war’
- Turkey bars entry to thousands of suspected IS supporters, including from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan
- CSTO foreign ministers agree on joint measures to ensure information security
- EU and Uzbekistan hold high-level meeting amid signs of change in the country
- Iran says it can resolve differences with Tajikistan through talks
- Uzbekistan to hold the second International Fruit and Vegetable Fair
- Presidents of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan to meet before yearend — ambassador
- China provides communication equipment for medical institutions in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan and Eurasia new oil consortium in a multi-billion Caspian project
- Kyrgyzstan’s ruling party names current PM as single presidential candidate
- Big American companies tapping investment opportunities in Kyrgyzstan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Afghanistan holding dialogue with Central Asia countries
- Climate change may reverse hard-earned development gains in Asia — report
- Kyrgyzstan: ruling party in crisis over presidential vote
- Uzbekistan revitalizes GTL plant construction project
- Modern tourist zone to be established in Samarkand in Uzbekistan
- OSCE, UNDP train border and customs officers from Afghanistan, Tajikistan
- Germany’s president says his country to support different sectors in Afghanistan
- EU funds project to build a bridge at Tajikistan-Afghanistan border
- Turkmenistan: bribery scandals galore as anti-graft body gathers strength
- Book of President Rahmon’s wit and wisdom published in Tajikistan
- Afghanistan and World Bank sign $482 million new financing
- Japan and Kazakhstan promote gender equality, women’s rights in Afghanistan
- OSCE supports platform for promoting best practices, innovations for green economy in Kazakhstan
- Germany holds its National Day at EXPO 2017 in Astana in Kazakhstan
- With $2 billion investment plan, China signals its geopolitical interests in Syria
- Kazakhstan and Latvia developing transit and transport cooperation
- Belarusian agricultural machinery to be assembled in Tajikistan
- Astana hosts Kazakhstan-China Agrarian Investment Forum
- Tajikistan president warns his people against wearing hijabs, beards
- Kazakhstan president signs controversial laws on presidency, deprivation of citizenship
- Russia wants CSTO allies to deploy to Syria
- Kazakhstan can supply camel products for export
- World Bank project to help Tajikistan cope with natural disasters
- European Union the main trading partner of Kazakhstan — official
- Swiss finance minister visits Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD approves new strategy for Kazakhstan, sets investment priorities
- Czech company to build Upper Naryn hydropower plants cascade in Kyrgyzstan
- Deputy speaker of Uzbekistan’s Senate speaks on SCO, CIS prospects
- EU providing assistance for border management in Central Asia
- Uzbekistan attracts tourists from Germany
- President outlines Turkmenistan’s economic development tasks for 2nd half 2017
- Kazakhstan hosts capacity building seminar for Afghanistan civil servants, NGOs
- Kyrgyzstan drives to optimize its energy sector
- Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan need to redirect investment flows as combustibles’ future spells doom
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Trade and remittances lay ground for economic recovery in EDB countries — report
- ADB and InFin Bank sign trade finance deal in Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan: opposition beds down and plots in Polish exile
- Analyst says US cannot win war in Afghanistan without Moscow
- UNICEF, EU strengthen children’s resilience to cope with natural disasters in Central Asia, South Caucasus
- China companies interested in joint projects in Turkmenistan
- Construction of TAPI gas pipeline may start in Afghanistan within a year
- Tajikistan president urges Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan to speed up CASA-1000 project
- Road traffic accidents increase dramatically in Kyrgyzstan
- New EU-funded human rights project launched in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan, Mongolian, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and US forces to conduct military exercise
- Pakistan prime minister visits Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan has no plans to rejoin Russia-led security bloc CSTO — FM
- Tajikistan police kill relatives of ex-commander who joined Islamic State
- Central Asia: all together now
- Privatization of state assets goes on schedule in Kazakhstan
- Ashgabat hosts first specialized show of Chinese products in Turkmenistan
- In Afghanistan, US senators warn Pakistan against harboring Taliban safe havens
- Capital cities of Uzbekistan and South Korea developing cooperation
- OSCE holding professional training courses for female managers in Uzbekistan
- British embassy in Kyrgyzstan launches art exhibition “Common Values, Creativity”
- UHRP calls on China to reveal the condition of Uyghurs disappeared after 2009 unrest in Xinjiang
- Uzbekistan to hold first joint military drills with Russia since 2005
- Uzbekistan a key link on transit railway corridor China-Central Asia–Europe
- France’s Total and Iran sign $4.8 billion natural gas project
- Turkmenistan reiterates commitment to energy, transport projects with Afghanistan
- Kyrgyz parliament, Switzerland, UNDP to strengthen parliamentary democracy in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan to create two technopolises for textile and garment industry
- Uzbekistan to modernize coal industry
- Afghanistan to export goods to Europe via Turkmenistan, Georgia
- KTZ and Sinotrans to launch container train route through Kazakhstan
- Almaty hosts Kazakhstan-Thailand business forum
- Tajikistan’s unity after war: expectation and reality
- Kyrgyzstan to complete North-South motor road, strengthen contractors’ responsibility
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Uzbekistan alters its vision for Afghanistan
- U.S. embassy starts summer film screenings in Turkmenistan
- Tajikistan dreams of regional electricity grid rebirth
- US military could be smuggling uranium out of Afghanistan, locals say
- Swiss company to build electrical equipment plant in Uzbekistan
- OSCE concludes anti-corruption needs assessment mission in Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan’s National Bank to auction two troubled banks
- NATO member countries ready to send more forces to help train Afghanistan troops
- Turkmenistan expands its passenger air fleet with a new Boeing
- Atambayev offers Russia to build training base in southern Kyrgyzstan
- Hungarian embassy opens in Uzbekistan
- EU backs Kyrgyzstan’s Bar in protecting lawyers’ rights, increasing ethical standards
- Uzbekistan raises refinancing rate amid growing inflation
- Kyrgyzstan detains four suspects allegedly plotting terrorist attacks
- Kyrgyzstan: election campaigning co-opts Islam
- Switzerland and Aga Khan Foundation support earthquake-affected people in Kyrgyzstan
- Transit cargo volume through Kazakhstan on the rise
- Kazakhstan to increase the share of tourism to 8% of GDP
- Rights groups say World Bank funds projects using forced, child labor in Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan celebrates anniversary of civil war end
- Terrorism: Central Asia migrants in Moscow recruited by ISIS
- UNDP raises awareness on climate change and adaptation in Turkmenistan
- US embassy brings American blues to Kyrgyzstan
- Army officers in Turkmenistan reportedly convicted for practicing non-traditional Islam
- China’s Jumore to create trade and logistics center in Astana, Kazakhstan
- China to support Afghanistan-Pakistan dialogue, Afghan peace process
- Kazakhstan’s Expo: vanity fair or imprint of the future?
- Uzbekistan allows farmers to independently export fruit and vegetables
- IS shifting focus to Afghanistan and Central Asia, declares war on Taliban
- Afghanistan removed from international banking gray list
- EBRD finances Kazakhstan’s small businesses and female entrepreneurs
- EBRD finances better street lighting in two cities in East Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan farmers face challenges when exporting products to EEU market
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Bishkek’s Ak-Keme hotel in Kyrgyzstan transferred to state ownership with help of police
- EBRD, Damu Fund to jointly support small business in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan to improve water and sanitation services with World Bank support
- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan holding no talks about sending troops to Syria
- Uzbekistan seeking to export canned pilaf to Germany and Switzerland
- Astana International Financial Center in Kazakhstan to start working next January
- EBRD supports inclusion in Kazakhstan through Kyzyl gold deposit development
- Security situation worsening in Afghanistan, report says
- GE showcases future of energy and industry at Expo-2017 in Kazakhstan
- Consortium to implement Eurasia hydrocarbon project in Kazakhstan’s Caspian shelf
- Russia aims to return to Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan amid Vostochny problems
- China’s Jiangsu Province Week held at EXPO-2017 in Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan to issue government securities for $1 billion to raise funds for Rogun power plant
- EBRD financing of Baikonur solar plant in Kazakhstan moving closer
- Tajikistan bans citizens under 40 to perform hajj to Mecca
- Airport in Kazakhstan capital Astana renamed after president Nazarbayev
- CSTO to hold operation targeting extremist recruiters
- Kazakhstan: EXPO draws critics, and EXPOs misfires back
- Uzbekistan to inject $500 million into commercial banks
- Role of women and youth in conflict prevention in Central Asia discussed in Kazakhstan
- Afghanistan government forces recapture Tora Bora hideout from Islamic State
- Kyrgyzstan and Russia sign declaration on strengthening of strategic partnership
- In Central Asia, China finds a crowded playing field
- Uzbekistan to invest $50 million in growing walnut plantations
- Оpen doors day for prevention of torture held in Kyrgyzstan
- UNDP’s EU-BOMNAF Project upgrades crossing point on Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border
- EU to develop new Central Asia strategy by end of 2019
- IFAS to become platform for cooperation in Central Asia — Turkmenistan leader
- First ‘clean zone’ for female convicts will be constructed in Kyrgyzstan
- Business calls on Kyrgyzstan government, Centerra to reach consensus in court disputes
- Uzbekistan and China start gas production in Bukhara region
- Uzbekistan to replace traditional fuels with renewable energy sources in power production
- Turkmenistan should scale down state’s role in planning and coordinating economic activity — IMF
- Trade between Kazakhstan and Ukraine on the rise
- Kazakhstan to switch from Cyrillic to Latin: social and economic realities versus political zeal
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- OSCE PA president addresses OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum, holds talks in Kazakhstan
- USAID helps improve the quality of tuberculosis medicines in Uzbekistan
- UN secretary-general fails to speak up for rights problems in Central Asia — watchdog
- AIIB approves loan to support hydro power project in Tajikistan
- Changes to regulations on private economic activity to save Kyrgyzstan businesses 17 million EUR
- USAID helps expand markets for farmers in southern Kyrgyzstan
- Central Asia Transport and Logistics Partnership to strengthen regional transport and transit
- ADB reaffirms support to Kazakhstan, Central Asia regional cooperation
- Kazakhstan’s Almaty and Luxembourg to develop cooperation
- World Bank diagnostics report presented at Astana Economic Forum in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan’s Halyk Bank to acquire 96.81% of ordinary shares in Kazkommertsbank
- Tajikistan: taking state snooping to the next level
- Rights organization calls for respect of Uyghur linguistic rights in China’s Xinjiang
- Uzbekistan expands exports of small and private businesses
- Digital technologies can help Tajikistan diversify economy, make it more competitive
- Kazakhstan-Austria business council meets in Astana
- In Afghanistan, UN chief says Afghan war has no military solution
- Economy on the rise in Kyrgyzstan, President Atambayev says
- Khorgos to host trade exhibition of Kazakhstan goods
- World Bank to provide over $500 million to Afghanistan
- Tajikistan’s first public private partnership awarded for bringing clean energy to East Tajikistan, North Afghanistan
- UN to continue supporting Central Asia countries in countering terrorism
- UN calls for transition towards clean energy at Expo 2017 in Kazakhstan
- UK and Kyrgyzstan sign double taxation agreement
- Uzbekistan: once-expelled Turkish businesses returning
- Kazakhstan producers trade on China’s electronic trading platform
- Kazakhstan’s atomic company Kazatomprom to digitalize production
- EBRD supports inclusive mining in Kazakhstan with ShalkiyaZinc expansion
- UN commissioner-general visits Arnasay Green Technologies Center in Kazakhstan
- UN secretary-general visits Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan to host UN-Central Asia meeting on counter-terrorism
- World companies discuss nuclear power prospects at Astana EXPO in Kazakhstan
- EBRD invests in second solar park in Kazakhstan
- In Kyrgyzstan, UN secretary-general speaks on importance of governance for sustainable development
- Central Asia countries to accelerate the uptake of renewables
- Kazakhstan can start recovering solar energy investments within 5 years
- UN secretary-general visits Aral Sea disaster area in Uzbekistan
- Shanghai Eight: assessing a multi-headed chimaera
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan to host event on indigenous peoples and community conserved areas
- Teachers, students of Turkish schools targeted in Turkmenistan — watchdog
- Investigation launched into incident at University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan
- India and Pakistan join Shanghai Cooperation Organization
- Kazakhstan and China to establish Astana stock exchange
- EBRD to sign new projects during Astana Expo in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan ranks 56th in Human Development Report as country with high human development
- Astana hosts meeting of Kazakhstan-China Business Council
- Kazakhstan and China launch new container service from Lianyungang to Khorgos
- Kyrgyzstan hosts EU-Central Asia High Level Political and Security Dialogue
- One Belt, One Road: Russian dreams exceed reality
- Rural women in Kyrgyzstan improve agricultural productivity, leadership skills through UN-supported project
- Russia reinforcing its military bases in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan’s Halyk Bank to sell 60% of Altyn Bank to Chinese investors
- Turkmenistan plans to abolish free utilities for population
- Kazakhstan court sentences fugitive tycoon and opposition figure Ablyazov to 20 years
- European Investment Bank plans to enter Uzbekistan market
- Kazakhstan and China leaders hope cooperation will revive ancient Silk Road
- Kazakhstan to invite management companies to develop special economic zones
- Almaty city the most business-friendly in Kazakhstan — World Bank study
- China supports Iran’s membership of SCO
- Influential deputy PM of Uzbekistan reportedly dismissed
- Turkmenistan: anti-corruption body created to fight crisis
- World Bank projects economic growth in Central Asia in 2017-2018
- Turkmenistan receives new combine harvesters from Germany
- Turkmenistan hosts Central Asian international ecological forum
- Kazakhstan ready to open Astana EXPO-2017
- Gazprom and Uzbekistan’s Uzbekneftegaz sign strategic cooperation agreement
- Uzbekistan: change of tune coming on Roghun dam?
- Uzbekistan developing small industrial zones
- UNDP launches new initiatives to develop women’s entrepreneurship in Uzbekistan
- Commissioning works start at Turkmenistan’s Garabogaz carbamide plant
- Container trains from China to Iran through Kazakhstan to run in June
- Kazakhstan’s Baiterek holding, European Investment Bank to finance ‘green’ projects
- Kyrgyzstan business ready to support State project but investors need stability guarantees
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia May 27-June 3
- Uzbekistan: president chews out former would-be rival
- ADB to provide $500 million for rural housing program in Uzbekistan
- WFP Tajikistan school meals recipe book named best in the world
- Russia holds military exercises in Tajikistan — but why not with CSTO?
- CPJ calls on Kyrgyzstan authorities to ensure safety of independent journalist
- European Investment Bank to support Kyrgyzstan’s agriculture
- Free trade zone with India may add $2.7 billion to EEU’s total GDP
- India and Pakistan to become full members of SCO at its June summit in Kazakhstan
- Report cites progress and challenges in Afghanistan’s health sector
- Caspian Sea dispute: where solutions jump ahead of problems
- Kyrgyzstan presents investment opportunities to UAE business
- GM Uzbekistan to sell cars for national currency inside the country
- Turkmenistan’s agricultural sector overregulated by the state, needs economic freedom
- Militants forced out of Afghanistan pose threat to CIS and Central Asia — official
- Deeper economic reforms needed in Tajikistan — IMF
- Kazakhstan: global retailer leader Carrefour down and out
- Uzbekistan’s foreign minister speaks on facilitation of visa regime, attraction of tourists
- Bringing Caspian, and Turkmen, gas to Europe would become reality — EC vice-president
- Russian special forces in anti-terror drills on Tajikistan-Afghanistan border
- Uzbekistan holds oil and gas exhibition and conference
- Kyrgyzstan’s former prime minister and former economy minister face corruption charges
- White House proposes slashing US programs in Caucasus, Central Asia
- UNRCCA helps to build confidence between Central Asia countries on water, economic cooperation issues
- Uzbekistan’s foreign minister names barriers to foreign investment in the country
- EEU to conclude talks with Iran on its membership of the Union by 2018 — Kazakhstan minister
- EU to provide €44m to help Afghan refugees in Iran and Pakistan, improve disaster risk management in Central Asia
- Kazakhstan presents export potential of country’s defense, aerospace industry
- Uzbekistan banks on Russian oil for new refinery
- Trade between EDB countries, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, recovers in Q1 2017
- Uzbekistan’s hydropower development program plans to build 42 power plants
- Afghanistan becomes one of Tajikistan’s key trade partners
- New mechanisms of attracting foreign investment discussed in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan gets FMD free status, is now able to export agricultural products to WTO countries
- Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan greatly dependent on migrant labor
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Assessing Kazakhstan’s new campaign to attract capital
- Kyrgyzstan can become an Internet hub on a digital Silk Road from China to Europe
- Reinforcement of Russian military base in Tajikistan is ‘due’ to instability in Afghanistan
- Central Asia ready to follow China’s lead despite Russian ties
- USA Pavilion to showcase America’s ‘Infinite Energy’ at Expo 2017 in Kazakhstan
- European Union brings relief to victims of Kyrgyzstan earthquakes
- Kyrgyzstan’s Manas Airport to be modernized with EBRD financing
- Russia sends Iskander missile systems to Tajikistan for military drills
- NATO summit makes no decision on troop levels in Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan’s economic ties to China continue to grow under new President Mirziyaev
- Uzbekistan’s new projects for agricultural machinery production
- Uzbekistan produces cosmetics using South Korean technology
- Kazakhstan hosts forum on Internet development in Central Asia
- China reaches out for Turkmenistan for Belt and Road cooperation
- NATO chief calls on Russia to support peace process in Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan parliament approves controversial election, citizenship bills
- Tensions between Caspian littoral states and Russia
- Kyrgyzstan’s trekking guides learn international best practices
- US-based Surgicorps International provides free surgical services to Kazakhstan patients
- Atameken, Kazakh Invest to jointly attract investment, promote Kazakhstan export
- Amnesty International condemns Tajikistan’s crackdown on lawyers
- ADB supports new road construction to boost connectivity in Afghanistan
- The old Silk Road and new Chinese, Russian and Indian alternatives in geopolitical games
- Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan pledge game-changing energy, power cooperation
- Iran opposes dam construction project in Afghanistan, saying it will restrict water flow
- New FEZs in Uzbekistan to grow medicinal plants for pharmaceutical industry
- Uzbekistan plans to double natural gas production
- Kazakhstan to become a halal meat export hub for Arab countries
- Kyrgyzstan to introduce toll roads
- Kyrgyzstan Investment Forum 2017 to be held in London
- Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan offer $165 billion opportunity for GCC firms
- Turkmenistan to host international gas congress
- Tajikistan president speaks on causes of and ways to eliminate extremism, terrorism
- Atlas of solar power resources presented in Kazakhstan
- EU project promotes private sector development in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
- The Taliban’s spring offensive: Afghanistan faces a crucial year
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- One Belt, One Road: A plan for Chinese dominance and authoritarianism
- EU-funded pension reform project launched in Tajikistan
- World Bank releases Afghanistan’s first Subnational Doing Business report
- India and Japan to launch their alternative to China’s Belt and Road initiative
- Tajikistan, Belarus to expand agricultural cooperation, to jointly assemble tractors
- Sending more US troops to Afghanistan will not help ensure security — analyst
- Attraction of foreign investments a priority for Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry
- World Bank to identify possible interventions to support Tajikistan economy
- Uzbekistan president pays second visit to Turkmenistan this year
- Kyrgyzstan pro-presidential party chooses PM Jeenbekov as presidential candidate
- EU ambassador speaks for increasing European Union trade with Uzbekistan
- Switzerland supports the solution of local issues in Kyrgyzstan’s Chuy province
- USAID, Kazakhstan’s KAZAKH INVEST conduct study tour for export promotion officials from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan economy searching for new sources of growth, to focus on agriculture
- Improving governance key to ensuring equitable growth in Kazakhstan — report
- Kazakhstan opens nuclear security training center
- Afghanistan still fails to take advantage of WTO membership
- OSCE promotes advanced water education standards in Kazakhstan
- Uzavtosanoat, France’s Groupe PSA create JV to produce light commercial vehicles in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan increasing production and export of motor vehicles
- Companies of Kazakhstan’s Samruk-Kazyna fund sign contracts with China partners
- UNRCCA, based in Turkmenistan, promotes regional cooperation in Central Asia
- Will a new National Holding improve management of Kyrgyzstan’s state-owned enterprises?
- Donors help Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan producers market dried apricots
- Tajikistan foreign minister defends Rogun hydro power project
- A free economic zone will soon be created at Khorgos on Kazakhstan-China border
- China’s new Silk Road initiative needs more certainty
- Some 50 countries interested in cooperation with EEU — Russian president
- China paves the way for a new Silk Road
- Europe Day celebrated in Kyrgyzstan
- Suspected Uzbek Stockholm terrorist linked to network around jihadist leader — Swedish Radio
- Uzbekistan holding forum on its cultural heritage
- 1,000th freight train leaves China for Europe
- Uzbekistan and China to expand economic cooperation
- China’s Belt and Road Forum opens in Beijing
- Kyrgyzstan attracts tourists by celestial mountains and nomadic culture
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan seeks to reduce Russian media influence amid Moscow-West spat
- New report provides in-depth analysis of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
- U.S. donates $6 million to Tajikistan’s border guards
- EBRD, EU and EIB invest $30 million in water upgrades in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan and Germany to expand economic cooperation
- Turkmenistan and Belarus to increase trade up to $500 million
- Kyrgyzstan’s new domestic violence law to improve response to abuse — HRW
- Uzbekistan reaches out for renewed cooperation with EBRD
- EBRD finances irrigation in three regions of Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan president inspects construction of Rogun hydropower plant
- Uzbekistan president heads to China to boost ties
- Additional US troops in Afghanistan would depend on NATO allies
- Iran ready to launch int’l arbitration against Turkmenistan over gas supply halt
- Kyrgyzstan: President bashes Russian migrant-phobia
- Kazakhstan should diversify economy away from oil, promote private sector — IMF
- Tajikistan under attack from Taliban and Daesh forces
- US may change strategy in Afghanistan, reports say
- MDBs reduce finance for CIS countries, including in Central Asia, in Q1 2017
- Poverty in Afghanistan on the rise amidst troop withdrawal — report
- John Deere to supply 1,350 units of agriculture machinery to Turkmenistan by 2020
- Kyrgyzstan to repair Prosecutor General’s Office building burned in April 2010
- Uzbekistan set to increase grapes production, boost winemaking industry
- U.S. delivers clean drinking water to homes in Tajikistan’s Norak district
- Turkmenistan hosts int’l transport and logistics conference
- Indian company selected for Afghan part of CASA-1000 power project
- Kyrgyzstan to introduce open skies policy, attract investors into civil aviation
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: trapped between a landslide and poverty
- Uzbekistan to boost fishing industry
- Drawing exhibition ‘Imagining European Union’ opens in Bishkek
- Turkmenistan starts producing LED bulbs
- Global economy improvements may accelerate growth in EDB countries — report
- Dushanbe to host business forum of Belarus, Tajikistan and Afghanistan
- Contracts for $11.8 million signed between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
- World Bank helps rehabilitate Nurek hydropower plant in Tajikistan
- DBK to increase financing of non-energy sector of Kazakhstan economy
- Switzerland supports 10-year project enhancing Kyrgyz parliamentarism
- Syrian opposition suspends participation in Astana talks
- Uzbekistan president to visit China in mid-May
- Uzbekistan manufactured 88 thousand cars in 2016
- Uyghur project demands China give foreign journalists free access to Xinjiang
- Central Asia and Japan expand transport cooperation
- Forum of Entrepreneurs will be held in Khorgos on Kazakh-Chinese border
- Uzbekistan ups fruit and vegetable export in Q1
- Kazakhstan’s national wealth fund presents companies to investors for privatization
- NATO could increase troops in Afghanistan as insurgency intensifies
- Uzbekistan planning novelties to attract more foreign tourists
- ADB to invest $300 million in Afghanistan infrastructure projects
- Japan interested in rail transit to Europe through China and Kazakhstan
- EU project in Tajikistan to promote the rights of prisoners and ex-prisoners
- Russia: Petersburg metro blast sets off hunt for Central Asian terrorists
- Silk Road Economic Belt: deepening cooperation between EEU and China
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- EU to provide 21.5 million euros for horticulture project in Uzbekistan
- Taliban launches spring offensive in Afghanistan
- Iran launches country’s largest solar power plant
- U.S. helps promote horticulture export to boost economic growth in Central Asia
- Kazakhstan introducing new approaches to attracting investments
- New EU project against drugs and organized crime launched in Kyrgyzstan
- 12 Central Asians arrested in Russia on extremism charges
- French elections, round 1: sending the right signal to Central Asia
- Municipalities of Kyrgyzstan provinces improve citizens’ well-being with Switzerland’s support
- Kazakhstan-France Business Council meets in Astana
- Pakistan wants Russia to play major role in stabilizing Afghanistan
- Top anticorruption officials said arrested for corruption in Tajikistan
- South Korean companies consider opening production facilities in Kazakhstan
- Biodiversity management finance in focus at regional workshop in Kazakhstan
- Moscow rejects US charges that Russia supplying arms to Afghan Taliban as ‘groundless’
- Turkmenistan elected to UNICEF Executive Board for 2018-2020
- Uzbekistan president demands to cut imports, increase production and export
- New railway station of Astana in Kazakhstan to open June 1, before EXPO-2017
- ADB approves $80 million for railway electrification in Uzbekistan
- U.S. concerned Russia may be supplying arms to Taliban in Afghanistan
- Tajikistan’s economy: any light at the end of the tunnel?
- Turkmenistan’s anti-tobacco drive causes cigarette prices going up
- Japan grants $3.6 million aid to Afghanistan
- US donates over 130,000 books to children’s libraries in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan’s parliament considers challenges facing agricultural sector
- Afghanistan: the next big U.S.-Russia proxy battle
- Turkish referendum: sending the wrong signal to Central Asia
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- SCO FMs set agenda for organization’s summit in June in Astana
- Kazakhstan national oil and gas company places Eurobonds for $2.75 billion
- Food prices on the rise in Turkmenistan as dollar cash withdrawals restricted
- Uzbekistan’s Shurtan gas chemical plant to increase production capacity
- Kazakhstan and Israel to create joint fund for agricultural projects
- Kazakhstan president speaks for control of religion, ban of black Muslim clothes
- ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR A BETTER SOCIETY: Make a difference, battle prison overcrowding
- Beijing to host China’s Silk Road summit in May
- Kazakhstan’s export to Afghanistan growing
- Iran ready to help Kyrgyzstan with hydropower plants construction
- Two would-be terrorists from Central Asia killed in Russia
- Economic situation in Russia, China to impact Kyrgyzstan economy — IMF
- Russia’s Gazprombank to fund projects in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan’s economy enters growth phase in Q1 2017
- Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan sign strategic partnership treaty
- Uzbekistan to export eggs to Afghanistan
- Russia-Pakistan cooperation key to Central Asia security, Pakistan deputy FM says
- Central Asia, Caucasus, Iran and China expand cooperation in railway transport
- Kyrgyzstan opposition members sentenced to 4-20 years for plotting a coup
- Reduced inflation in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan contributes to economic growth
- Czech business willing to invest in Afghanistan
- Turkmenistan to become tobacco-free country by 2025
- Kazakhstan to open Representative Office in Silicon Valley
- Gazprom pays peanuts for Uzbekistan’s gas but investments continue
- Towards a New World Order in Eurasia: The 21st Century’s Great Game
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan to sell or liquidate unprofitable state-owned enterprises
- Russia hosts Afghanistan talks boycotted by the US
- American film experts present documentaries in Ashgabat
- EEU member states reiterate commitment to further integration at Bishkek summit
- Moldova to get observer status in Eurasian Economic Union
- Uzbekistan to create free tourist zone in Bukhara
- GE Transportation buys 50% stake in Kazakhstan’s locomotive manufacturer
- US drops largest nonnuclear bomb on Islamic State target in Afghanistan
- World Bank helps improve higher education in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan plans to produce cosmetics with South Korean company
- State Committee for Investments established in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan to switch from Cyrillic to Latin alphabet
- OSCE helps engage parents in preventing violent extremism amongst youth in Tajikistan
- U.S. government helps protect the rights of Kyrgyzstan migrant workers abroad
- Poland and Uzbekistan have great untapped potential in trade and economic spheres
- CAREC aviation officials discuss regional air cooperation in Central Asia
- Uzbekistan resumes Tashkent-Dushanbe flights
- Uzbekistan ups exports of textile and light-industry products
- First rail freight service to China leaves UK along ‘New Silk Route’
- Kazakhstan proceeds with privatization plan
- AREVA and KAZATOMROM sign strategic uranium mining agreement
- Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Tajik radicals behind terrorism ‘made in Central Asia’
- Iran is Afghanistan’s largest trade partner
- Kazakhstan exporters to deliver fortified flour to Afghanistan
- Almaty hosts Kazakhstan-Latvia business forum
- China interested in importing Kazakhstan agricultural and food products
- Will Kurds in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan seek joining Greater Kurdistan?
- Kyrgyzstan coping with challenges facing the electricity sector
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Banking system development discussed in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan reaches deal with Russia on labor migration
- Tajikistan needs to strengthen banks through finance reforms — ADB
- Italian companies explore business opportunities in Kazakhstan’s Almaty region
- Kazakhstan and Israel sign roadmap for cooperation in agriculture
- Turkmenistan president fires energy chief amid oil and gas sector woes
- Green Climate Fund approves EBRD project proposal in Tajikistan
- ADB and Tengri Bank sign agreement to support trade in Kazakhstan
- Russians reportedly visit Taliban training centers in Pakistan
- Kazakhstan’s economic outlook positive but banking sector challenges remain — ADB
- EBRD-EU delegation visits Tajikistan to discuss remediation of uranium legacy
- Uzbekistan and Russia sign investment deals worth $12 billion
- European Union supports reform of child care institutions in Kyrgyzstan
- Central Asia diplomats, government officials trained in conflict prevention
- Taliban reveals spring offensive strategy in Afghanistan
- Tajikistan-Russia aviation dispute continues
- Kyrgyzstan-born man the main suspect in St. Petersburg subway bombing
- Astana-Budapest air flight to be launched in June
- Kazakhstan develops agro export roadmap
- Uzbekistan provides tax incentives, loans to businesses in remote regions
- Making sense of the attack in St. Petersburg
- Chinese authorities ban burqas in Xinjiang as part of anti-extremism fight
- Kazakhstan seeks China investment in agro-industrial sector, more agro exports
- Chinese delegation visits Tashkent to boost trade, economic ties with Uzbekistan
- Environmental remediation of uranium legacy in Central Asia makes progress
- Kyrgyz MPs discuss distribution of money raised for plane crash victims
- U.S. boosts special forces training in Central Asia
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan’s agriculture has big potential, poor capabilities
- Turkmenistan: with money in short supply, cash-free seen as answer
- Pro-government lawmaker charged with corruption in Kyrgyzstan
- Presidents of Turkmenistan and Belarus launch potash fertilizer plant
- Uzbekistan holds international food and agro exhibitions
- Uzbekistan spying on citizens at home and abroad, Amnesty says
- Russian Gazprom to sign 5-year contract for purchase of Uzbek gas
- Syrian scenario may repeat in Central Asia — analyst
- Kazakhstan and EU reiterate commitment to developing cooperation
- Uzbekistan creating new housing and construction bank
- Uzbekistan president launches construction of new metallurgical plant
- Uzbekistan’s import substitution efforts make strides
- Polish companies explore investment opportunities in Kazakhstan’s Atyrau region
- Kazakhstan the leader in labor productivity among EEU countries
- Belarus president heads for Turkmenistan
- Another EU mission on GSP+ visits Kyrgyzstan to help increase Kyrgyz export
- Chinese company plans to build a cement plant in Uzbekistan
- Khorgos center at Kazakh-Chinese border hosts trade fair
- Another opposition politician charged with corruption in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan to develop country’s regions
- IAEA helps prepare for remediation of uranium legacy sites in Tajikistan
- Russia and Tajikistan hold counter-terror drills
- Police detain 68 at protest over jailing of former MP in Kyrgyzstan
- Time to re-engage
- New visa procedures to attract foreign investors to Kyrgyzstan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyz labor migrants support national economy, lack equal rights in Russia
- Moscow rejects U.S. general’s statement that Russia supplying Taliban
- U.S. helps defeat TB in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan and Germany have big untapped potential for cooperation — ambassador
- Kumtor accounted for 8% of Kyrgyzstan GDP, 23% of industrial output in 2016
- Top NATO general says Russia may be supplying Taliban in Afghanistan
- Deals worth almost $1 billion signed at Kazakh-Uzbek business forum
- Dutch prosecutors investigate ING over possible role in corruption in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyz honey, nuts, dried fruits, and beans have potential for export to Europe
- Kazakhstan and UAE implement investment projects
- Afghanistan needs more US troops to help battle Taliban, IS
- Book review: Security and Human Right to Water in Central Asia
- Turkish company to build a metal plant in Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan adjusting to new reality of lower hydrocarbon prices — IMF
- Turkmenistan president’s son becomes head of parliamentary committee
- China: Belt and Road Initiative
- With tensions high, Kazakhstan plays mediator in Syria peace talks
- U.S. and Tajik security forces to conduct crisis response exercise
- New plant opens in south Kyrgyzstan with EU support
- Uzbekistan: human rights activist forced into psychiatric detention
- Turkmenistan plans to establish free economic zones
- Russia assures Afghanistan that contacts with Taliban limited to peace process
- Germany to spend 20 million euros for Afghanistan jobs program
- Russia to host talks on Afghan conflict, US and Central Asia states invited
- Kyrgyzstan struggling with consequences of illegal construction instead of preventing it
- Central Asia corruption: high-brow racketeers society in Kazakhstan (part 2)
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Uzbekistan accords Turkmenistan status of closest neighbor and partner
- EBRD is re-engaging with Uzbekistan
- OSCE Centre in Ashgabat supports education of future diplomats in Turkmenistan
- Turkmenistan reportedly supplies ammunition to Taliban to protect future gas pipeline?
- China to build residential housing in Afghanistan
- US welcomes India’s Chabahar port plan in Iran as beneficial for Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan and Belarus set to expand trade and economic cooperation
- The main security threat to Central Asia comes from Afghanistan — Russian FM
- Kyrgyzstan seeks Saudi investments
- Conference addresses trans-Asia rail connectivity through India, Iran, Turkey
- Turkmenistan invites investors from Qatar
- Uzbekistan developing economy, tourism in Aral Sea area
- Kyrgyzstan to liquidate or sell unprofitable state-owned enterprises
- Kyrgyzstan’s former prosecutor-general faces charges
- EBRD president to visit Uzbekistan
- Central Asia: what will US foreign policy toward the region look like?
- American musicians visit Turkmenistan, to play with local orchestra
- Uzbekistan supporting small business development
- Kyrgyzstan to receive $110 million loan for Kambarata hydro plant 2
- Afghanistan asks Russian help for economic reconstruction
- Meeting of Kazakh-Egyptian Intergovernmental Commission held in Cairo
- IFC helps expand access to finance for small businesses in Tajikistan
- Francophonie Week held in Bishkek
- Eurasian Economic Union needs better rules of the game
- Central Asia corruption: how Kyrgyzstan can make a fresh start (part 1)
- Kyrgyzstan trying to sell major mobile operator, again
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Russia rejects reports on alleged support of Taliban in Afghanistan as ‘absurd’
- Kyrgyzstan: prosecutors sue media for offending president
- Nazarbayev signs Kazakhstan constitutional amendments into law
- Switzerland supports local self-governments in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan ships wheat to Vietnam via new transport corridor through China
- Japan provides $11.9 million for governance, disaster risk reduction in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan to host 3rd round of Astana talks on Syria on March 14-15
- Most of Afghanistan’s water is flowing into neighboring countries
- Urban population in Kazakhstan to grow to 70 percent by 2030
- Turkmenistan’s tourism woes
- Uzbekistan to invest $690 million in coal industry
- OSCE-supported Association of Women in Security Sector established in Kyrgyzstan
- Council of Europe supports project to help combat corruption in Kyrgyzstan
- EEU prime ministers discuss expansion of mutual trade
- Turkmen and Uzbek presidents open bridge across Amu Darya River
- Kazakhstan and China agree to increase freight traffic
- IFC supports transformation of cotton sector in Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to cooperate in energy and transport
- Approved by parliament, Kazakh constitutional amendments submitted to president for signing
- Kazakhstan to become a transit hub for trade between Southeast Asia, Europe
- ADB president visits Uzbekistan, signs 4 new loan agreements
- Uzbekistan president visits Turkmenistan
- Detained opposition leader named as presidential candidate in Kyrgyzstan
- UK seeking to build sustainable business partnership with Kyrgyzstan
- Central Asian countries erecting new cities to cope with population explosion
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan to boost textile industry
- Central Asia-China gas pipeline expansion delayed again
- Uzbekistan to repair over 5 thousand km of roads in two years
- Japanese company plans to open plant producing steel wire in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan to fully provide itself with domestic fuel in 2019
- World Bank supports primary and secondary education system in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan’s Halyk Bank plans acquisition of Kazkommertsbank
- ECO region the best trade and transportation link between Europe and Asia, Iran says
- Switzerland supports medical education in south Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan not to hold referendum on constitutional amendments
- Kyrgyz opposition party says its leader’s arrest linked to plane crash probe
- Russia and China ‘pursue same goals’ in Central Asia — Russian analyst
- UK welcomes Uzbekistan’s reform plans — ambassador
- Kazakhstan’s wealth fund invites investors, transnational corporations for cooperation
- EBRD to fund installation of heat meters in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan and Russia presidents discuss military cooperation, EEU ties
- Tajikistan and Russia to cooperate in atomic energy, border security
- US mentors from Silicon Valley visiting Kyrgyzstan
- US presents counter trafficking manuals and equipment to Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan and Russia leaders reiterate commitment to Eurasian integration
- ‘Affordable housing’ unaffordable for most public sector employees in Kyrgyzstan
- US, Uzbekistan look for new cooperation fields that reflect tomorrow’s needs — ambassador
- Iran plans to buy uranium from Kazakhstan
- EBRD funds expansion of Turkmenistan Coca-Cola Bottlers
- Leader of Kyrgyzstan parliament’s opposition faction detained on corruption charges
- Europe welcomes Kazakhstan redistribution of power
- Kyrgyzstan pins hopes on IT sector development
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Drowning in data – EITI in Kazakhstan must mean more
- First UK trade mission to visit Kyrgyzstan
- EU technical mission on GSP+ completes its work in Kyrgyzstan
- French company to invest $284 million in Kazakhstan’s Atyrau province
- Turkmenistan reports increase in exports, decrease in imports in 2016
- South Korea investors look to Kazakhstan’s Kyzylorda province
- Uzbekistan president to visit Kazakhstan in March
- Russian president to visit Central Asia
- Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan agree on tariff discounts for railway export transit
- Uzbekistan and Belarus to jointly produce confectionery products
- OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports victims of Kyrgyzstan plane crash
- Income of Kazakhstan population 4.5% down in 2016
- Kazakhstan aims to export agricultural and food products to Egypt
- Kazakhstan and Vietnam to transport cargoes to EEU, Europe through China
- Tajik air company says Dushanbe-Tashkent flights to resume in the near future
- Kazakhstan and Mongolia plan nuclear cooperation
- Kazakhstan banks need to get rid of ‘bad loans’ to boost lending to economy — expert
- Uzbekistan presents its fruit and vegetables in Germany
- Uzbekistan cancels long-awaited return of air flights from Dushanbe
- Chinese companies to work at Khorgos free trade zone in Kazakhstan
- EU and Afghanistan sign cooperation agreement
- Afghanistan and Belarus to establish joint food processing ventures
- US government opens commercial greenhouse in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan MPs blame Government for poor work on EEU integration
- Kazakhstan’s banks merger: a remedy or a pain killer?
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Tajikistan: Russia’s Rusal offloads Tajik assets and flees
- Uzbekistan among world’s top 20 countries for cold storage of horticulture products
- EU supports rule of law and rural development in Kyrgyzstan with €23 million
- Kazakhstan ranks among the world’s top 50 economically free countries
- Kazakhstan to increase transit revenues up to $4 billion by 2020
- EU supports development of transport and logistics in Central Asia
- Uzbekistan and Russia to boost trade and economic cooperation
- Uzbekistan doubles fruit and vegetable exports in January
- Kyrgyzstan to amend legislation to introduce Islamic banking
- Six-nation consultations on Afghanistan may further include Central Asia countries
- Kyrgyzstan to hold presidential election on November 19
- Uzbekistan president to make first foreign trip to Turkmenistan or Russia, reports say
- Tajikistan needs more and better jobs — World Bank report
- Switzerland has provided CHF 350 million of support to Kyrgyzstan
- Former prime minister Babanov nominated as presidential candidate in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan’s National Bank reports on last year’s results
- Journalism watchdog calls on Kazakhstan to release jailed editor
- Uzbekistan estimates the effect of import substitution at $2 billion in 2016
- Kazakhstan issued over 36,000 work permits to foreign nationals last year
- Turkmenistan president re-elected with over 97 percent of votes
- Kyrgyzstan president to meet with EU leadership in Brussels on Feb 16
- Kazakhstan acquires company in Serbia
- Kyrgyzstan wins award for most authentic booth at tourism exhibition in Turkey
- Kyrgyzstan state-owned enterprises poorly managed by Government, MPs say
- Terrorism: the Afghan war redrawing Central Asia ‘Silk Route of Terror’ (part 2)
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- A quiet siege of Turkmenistan
- Forum discusses Kazakhstan’s new gender action plan
- Kazakhstan authorities crack down on dissent on social media — watchdog
- Second candidate says will run for president in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan to export honey and meat to China soon
- Kazakhstan to increase agro food export by 40% by 2021
- UN signs agreement with Kazakhstan to take part in EXPO-2017 in Astana
- U.S. general says Russia supports Taliban in Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan needs its own Khorgos on China border, MP says
- Uzbekistan switching to waste recycling, to build recycling plant in Khorezm province
- IMF projects 2.5% economic growth in Kazakhstan in 2017
- U.S. launches new program to support land reform in Tajikistan
- Upcoming presidential election in Turkmenistan lacks rights protections — watchdog
- Uzbekistan objects added to UNESCO Heritage List
- Russia invites Afghanistan to Russia-China-Pakistan consultations in Moscow
- Kazakhstan and Iran create joint venture for logistics infrastructure
- EU helps rural citizens in Kyrgyzstan improve living standard
- First batch of Kazakh grain shipped through China to Vietnam
- Kazakhstan-Czech business forum held in Astana
- Report says Afghanistan civilian casualties record-high in 2016
- EU’s GSP+ mission starts working in Kyrgyzstan to help boost exports to EU
- Uzbekistan to process all cotton domestically by 2020
- Former Kyrgyzstan prime minister Sariyev to run for president
- UN lifts sanctions against Afghan warlord, facilitating peace process
- Surviving on a pension in Kyrgyzstan
- Moscow’s double game in Afghanistan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan: opposition demands Government resignation over poor work
- USAID promotes tourism to Kyrgyzstan
- ILO report says child labor phased out in Uzbekistan
- Turkish investors explore South Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan-US business forum held in Tashkent
- Fugitive Kazakh banker Ablyazov faces new charge in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan prime minister reports on results of country’s entry to EEU
- Terrorism: the ‘forgotten dimensions’ of jihadism in Central Asia, China (part 1)
- Tajikistan plans to produce 179 thousand tons of aluminum in 2017
- New textile factory opens in Kyrgyzstan
- EU interested in increasing trade with Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan to open two technoparks in Tashkent
- Turkmenistan building plant to produce gasoline from natural gas
- Kazakh railway company delivers Uzbek fruit and vegetables to Russia
- Kazakh and Turkish companies agree on light-industry project
- Kazakhstan embarks on a new course of economic development
- Kyrgyzstan reports 3.8% growth in 2016
- Uzbekistan launches new program to develop Aral Sea area
- Uzbekistan creates bank to support agricultural export
- Kazakhstan president outlines new economic development program
- Russian president to visit Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan’s foreign debt hits $2.3 billion, imports exceed $3 billion
- Uzbekistan signs export contracts for $151 million at Green Week-2017
- IMF says int’l support needed to help Afghanistan absorb returning refugees
- Bishkek city major challenges: taxes, transport and roads
- Turkmenistan, ten years of living dangerously
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Kazakhstan: Nazarbayev reform speech gets mixed reception
- US provides a Huey II helicopter to Kazakhstan’s defense ministry
- Kazakhstan developing online platform for greenhouse gases reporting
- Kazakhstan expands exports of automobile batteries
- ADB to support dairy sector in Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan concerned over Tajik railway plan
- US supports opening of State Forensics Center under Kyrgyz Justice Ministry
- Tajikistan keeps aluminum production flat due to low prices, demand
- EU Special Representative to Central Asia concludes visit to Tajikistan
- Dutch company to build a potato processing plant in Kazakhstan
- Kazakh president to delegate some powers to parliament and cabinet, to become ‘supreme arbiter’
- Kazakhstan: outcome of Syria talks in Astana
- Low inflation, moderate dollarization of EEU economies pave way for successful integration
- Half of foreign investments in Uzbekistan go to oil & gas, energy sectors
- Kazakhstan seeks to expand coal exports
- Kyrgyz court upholds life sentence against political activist
- Syrian peace talks conclude in Astana
- First agreements signed for uranium mining legacy fund for Central Asia
- Taliban calls on Trump to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan plans to abolish exit visas for its citizens
- Oil workers in western Kazakhstan prosecuted for ‘illegal’ hunger strike
- Syria peace talks starting in Astana
- Kyrgyzstan’s Kumtor mine produces over 17 tons of gold in 2016
- Uzbekistan produces 8.2 million tons of grain crops in 2016
- Turkmenistan’s largest power plant to double generation capacity
- ‘Constructive opposition’ creates a shadow government in Kyrgyzstan
- Reform-minded presidential administration forces government reshuffles in Uzbekistan
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Can an ambitious India seize the moment?
- World Bank reconfirms its commitment to support Uzbekistan
- Syria talks in Kazakhstan: a possible breakthrough
- EU launches new project to support social protection sector in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan increases agricultural exports, expands export destinations
- Kyrgyz parliament commission to reveal the purpose of cargo aboard crashed plane
- Syrian rebel group says will not attend peace talks in Kazakhstan
- ADB to help improve infrastructure, investment climate, food security in Tajikistan
- World Bank confirms enhanced support to Tajikistan
- Oil workers’ protests growing in western Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan and UAE to establish joint investment platform
- Cause of Kyrgyzstan air crash points to poor navigation control, due to financial woes
- 2017 annual forecast: Eurasia
- Tajikistan weighing pros and cons of joining EEU
- US, Germany help improve transport and transit connections in Central Asia
- World Bank supports Youth Entrepreneurship Forum in Tajikistan
- Turkish nightclub attack suspect said to be Uzbek-born, trained in Afghanistan
- Turkmenistan to complete new seaport on the Caspian in December
- EBRD and AIFC launch study for ‘green’ financial system in Kazakhstan
- World Bank vice president discusses partnership with Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan sums up 2016 economic results
- Tajikistan fully cancels electricity rationing
- President sets goals for Turkmenistan for 2017
- Nazarbayev invites UAE companies to invest in Kazakhstan
- Cargo plane crashes near Bishkek’s Manas airport in Kyrgyzstan
- Freedom of expression under threat in Kyrgyzstan
- Regional solutions key for Asia-Pacific’s transition to sustainable energy
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Report: Turkmenistan’s falcon airport sinking
- WFP and Japan partner to support rural women in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan to launch large fertilizer plant in end of March
- Uzbekistan plans to create small industrial zone in Syrdarya province
- Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan to enhance economic cooperation
- Tajikistan president’s son becomes Dushanbe mayor
- Uzbekistan lifts ban on 12 export items
- Growth in Russia, Kazakhstan to support economies of Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan — WB
- EBRD finances first PVC profile producer in Turkmenistan
- Cyber security workshop held in Tashkent
- Uzbekistan bans incandescent lamps
- Around $17 billion legalized in Kazakhstan’s capital amnesty campaign
- Kazakhstan to reduce uranium production to maintain global prices
- Kazakhstan’s former economy minister detained on suspicion of bribery
- ‘Uyghur theory’ behind Istanbul New Year attack
- Armenia looking to import gas from Turkmenistan via Iran
- Russian ministry ready to negotiate air service resumption with Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan’s president says prosecutors should help and support businesses
- Uzbekistan postpones visa-free entry for foreigners until 2021
- Kyrgyzstan and China reiterate willingness to enhance cooperation
- Chinese company to build agro-industrial zone in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan to develop Caspian oilfield with a foreign investor
- Chinese company to build a major road in Afghanistan
- Kyrgyzstan continues borrowing, fails to attract FDI and develop production
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- Tourism in Kyrgyzstan: memorable events, promising projects and ratings
- Kazakhstan delivers humanitarian aid to Syria
- Tajikistan: brain drain reaches new highs
- 2017 declared the Year of Health and Inspiration in Turkmenistan
- China Southern Airlines mulls creation of joint venture with Kyrgyz airline
- Uzbekistan supports small business development
- Iran may apply to international arbitration over gas dispute with Turkmenistan
- Tajikistan cancels daytime electricity rationing
- Tajikistan increasing cement exports to neighboring countries
- Uzbek-South Korean JV exports automobile radiators to Russia
- Syria talks to start in Kazakhstan’s capital on January 23, Turkish FM says
- Understanding America’s global role in the age of Trump
- New fertilizer plant created in Uzbekistan with Singapore’s Indorama
- Uzbekistan raises excise duties on alcoholic products, cigarettes
- Uzbekistan and Afghanistan hold trade relations conference in Kabul
- TAPI: a pipeline project stuck in neutral
- Tajikistan’s medium-term development program has pessimistic and realistic scenario
- Uzbekistan’s leather and footwear industry targets at export markets
- Dushanbe denies claim that Taliban heavy weapons repaired in Tajikistan
- Astana ready to host talks between Syrian government and opposition
- Some state assets in Uzbekistan proposed to investors at zero cost
- Kazakhstan starts working as non-permanent UN Security Council member
- Turkmenistan suspends natural gas export to Iran over payment dispute
- Xinjiang: Uighurs grapple with travel restrictions
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- 2016 economic overview: Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
- Eurasian Economic Union countries sign Customs Code
- Turkmenistan signs last-minute gas deal with Iran
- Kyrgyzstan and Iran expand cooperation
- Kazakhstan, US reciprocally introduce 10-year business and tourism visas
- Kazakhstan exports more than imports in 2016
- Turkmenistan and Iran in a dispute over natural gas price
- OSCE donates equipment to Tajik security, border and customs agencies
- UAE trading company interested in import of Kazakh cereals, legumes
- Chinese company building $110 million glass plant in Uzbekistan
- France to help Uzbekistan with solid waste management, recycling
- Russia seeking joint use of Tajikistan’s air base
- Kabul concerned over Moscow meeting on peace in Afghanistan without Afghans
- Asian economies scale up direct investments in EEU — report
- China remains the largest investor in Tajikistan
- Citizens of more countries to visit Kazakhstan visa-free in 2017
- Uzbekistan builds railway network bypassing Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
- UNDP/GEF launch new climate change and economic project in Turkmenistan
- Kazakhstan, Russia sign new cooperation agreement for Baikonur spaceport
- Atambayev speaks about ‘negative’ aspects of Kyrgyzstan’s EEU membership
- Kazakhstan’s Kazkommertsbank in ‘no discussions of any government bailout’
- Chinese company to build a solar plant in Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan diversifying exports
- Kyrgyz president visits Uzbekistan to mend ties
- Weekly Digest of Central Asia
- 2016 economic overview: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
- EU removes Kazakh airlines from its blacklist as all Kyrgyz airlines remain
- Tajikistan: cold snap highlights power crisis
- Moscow deepens its Eurasian security tendrils
- Kyrgyzstan and Iran sign cooperation program for 10 years
- Tajikistan to implement National Development Strategy in 3 phases
- Tajikistan president outlines country’s goals in his address to parliament
- Kazakhstan, Iran to create transport corridor linking Iran’s ports to Central Asia
- EBRD supports Turkmen packaging company
- Tajikistan’s government saving troubled banks
- Kazakh food and agricultural producers present their products in China
- Kazakhstan’s security forces target banned Islamic group
- Kazakhstan reports 0.8% growth in 11 months, targets at 1% for 2016
- Kyrgyzstan and India to develop economic, healthcare, military cooperation
- Regional workshop in Tajikistan promotes prison-based rehabilitation programs
- University of Central Asia developing a pool of professionals for mining sector
- Iran’s president to visit Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan expanding sales markets for its fruit and vegetables
- Special forex regime may be introduced in Uzbek free economic zones
- Chinese company reconstructs roads in Tajik cities
- The Upper Naryn hydropower plants cascade: a hopeless project in Kyrgyzstan?
- American music teachers train and perform with Turkmen musicians
- Tajikistan invites investments from India
- EBRD providing €200 million for renewable energy sector in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan and China reach out to European oil markets
- Weekly Digest on Central Asia
- Uzbekistan’s new president focuses on improving regional relations
- Quality of education should be improved in Kyrgyzstan, MPs say
- White collar crime in Central Asia: the case of Kazakhstan (part 4)
- Uzbekistan: Azimov loses job at finance ministry
- EU funds water treatment plant project in Tajikistan
- European Parliament backs textile trade deal with Uzbekistan
- President Rahmon’s portrait may appear on new banknote in Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan’s president nominated for new term
- EU allocates EUR 10 million grant to Kyrgyzstan’s education sector
- Astana hosts Kazakhstan-Israel business forum
- Israeli prime minister visits Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan to continue prosecuting Ablyazov after French extradition refusal
- White collar crime in Central Asia: the case of Uzbekistan (part 3)
- EU supports sustainable agriculture in Turkmenistan
- ADB, Kyrgyzstan sign agreement to complete Toktogul hydro plant upgrade
- EBRD providing a €100 million loan to Kazakhstan’s Samruk-Energy
- US donates over a quarter million books to Kyrgyz-language primary schools
- Turkmenistan’s economic growth slowing down — IMF
- Ore enrichment plant will be built in South Kazakhstan with Chinese investment
- Kazakhstan developing new housing program
- Candidate nominated for prime minister in Uzbekistan
- New road signs and maps to improve tourism in Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan and Czech Republic to develop nuclear power cooperation
- First EBRD-financed buses arrive in Osh in south Kyrgyzstan
- Referendum in Kyrgyzstan backs constitutional amendments
- Life of Kyrgyzstan’s labor migrants deteriorating in Russia
- White collar crime in Central Asia: the case of Tajikistan (part 2)
- Transport a pivotal sector in Asia and the Pacific’s journey to sustainability
- French court cancels extradition of Kazakh tycoon to Russia
- Investment forum focuses on SMEs in Kyrgyzstan
- ADB to upgrade highways, improve road safety in Kashkadarya, Uzbekistan
- Road safety for key thoroughfare of Dushanbe in Tajikistan
- European Commission removes all Kazakh airlines from EU Air Safety List
- Mirziyaev proposes direct election of regional governors in Uzbekistan
- ADB financing to expand Azeri gas field, help create alternative for Caspian gas supply to Europe
- Turkmenistan holding international oil and gas forum
- Official presentation of Kashagan oil field held in Kazakhstan
- Alleged illegal oil sellers, extremists detained in Aktobe in Kazakhstan
- A thousandth container train passes through Kazakhstan on China-Europe route
- Construction of nuclear fuel fabrication plant started in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan launches 23 innovative and industrial projects
- Uzbekistan introduces visa-free entry for tourists from 27 countries
- White collar crime in Central Asia: the case of Kyrgyzstan (part 1)
- Russia promises Tajikistan ‘large quantity’ of military aircraft
- Tajikistan’s National Development Strategy a burden for private sector
- Foreign direct investment in Kyrgyzstan down in January-September
- Small businesses of SCO and BRICS gather for a forum in Ufa
- Mirziyaev elected new President of Uzbekistan
- Russian company to manufacture agricultural machinery in Uzbekistan
- New Delhi hosts Fourth India-Central Asia Dialogue
- Afghan government skeptical about Taliban pledge to protect infrastructure projects
- EU supports EBRD water modernization projects in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan: anatomy of an unconvincing scandal
- ADB and Kyrgyzstan sign agreement for North-South road rehabilitation
- Navruz added to UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
- Tajikistan invites Czech companies to build hydro plants, set up joint ventures
- Uzbekistan offers subsoil resources for exploration by foreign investors
- U.S. embassy and partners held Women Business Forum in Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan holds Day of German Economy
- Kyrgyz President reviews his work in 2016 at a press conference
- EBRD converts loan to Kyrgyz brewer Bear Beer into local currency
- Uzbekistan unveils ambitious plan to liberalize currency market
- Kazakhstan holds conference on new investment opportunities
- ADB $154 million loan to boost horticulture sector in Uzbekistan
- US partners with Kyrgyzstan and UN to fight HIV/AIDS
- Kyrgyzstan’s affordable housing program leaves borrowers disappointed
- Kyrgyzstan and India developing cooperation
- Kazakhstan to promote the export of agricultural products
- Kyrgyzstan to improve dairy farms productivity with World Bank support
- EBRD supports Kazakh MSMEs with $60 million credit line in local currency
- Kyrgyz government reports economic growth in 10 months of the year
- Rail link launched between Turkmenistan and Afghanistan
- Uzbekistan’s energy sector to become more efficient with World Bank support
- Kazakh terrorism trial in Aktobe ends with life sentences
- SPECA cooperation offers Central Asia a better pathway to achieve Sustainable Development Goals
- Kazakhstan’s Zhambyl region plans to build a ski base to develop tourism
- Kazakh and Dutch companies to cooperate in agro production
- First-ever UN conference on sustainable transport ends in Ashgabat
- Employment of foreign specialists needs to be simplified in Kyrgyzstan
- Astana Expo-2017: a race against time
- Good harvest also brings problems in Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan president’s daughter takes post at foreign ministry
- Nazarbayev says ‘no need’ to rename Kazakhstan’s capital after him
- Kyrgyzstan to host Future Hydro Central Asia expo and conference
- Hague hosts Kazakh-Dutch business forum
- Italian company interested in Uzbek fruit and vegetable production, sale
- Uzbekistan frees its ‘longest-held political prisoner’
- US, UK help enhance secure storage of radiological materials in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan to create four new free economic zones
- Turkmenistan president’s son becomes member of parliament
- Lawmaker proposes renaming Kazakhstan capital to honor President Nazarbayev
- Uzbekistan: Karimova reprises father’s dead, not dead act
- US helps to boost milk production in southern Kyrgyzstan
- Japanese companies to provide equipment for new power plant in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan attracting Chinese tourists
- Almaty hosts Kazakh-Czech business forum
- Tajikistan celebrated a new holiday this year – President’s Day
- Kazakhstan’s national, int’l stakeholders discuss implementing SDGs
- Uzbekistan switching from chemicals to bio methods in protecting cotton fields
- Commercial oil production starts at Kazakhstan’s Kashagan field
- Kazakh and Czech FMs discuss trade, industrial cooperation
- Beijing encroaching on Moscow’s military dominance in Tajikistan
- Chinese company to modernize chemical plant in Tajikistan
- Trans-Caspian railway route presented in Rotterdam
- Uzbekistan holds expositions to attract foreign companies
- Afghanistan: Trump faces impossible US mission between corruption and military deadlock
- High social tax hinders business development in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkish president visits Uzbekistan to boost ties
- Lack of safety guarantees scares investors in Kyrgyzstan
- NATO to close Central Asian office in Tashkent
- U.S. helps restore 12th-century Silk Road site in Turkmenistan
- Investors see opportunity in Kyrgyzstan — UNCTAD report
- Kazakhstan the main link connecting Europe and China — Kazakh railways head
- Kazakhstan discusses creation of meat cluster in Almaty region with Italian company
- Tajikistan plans close to $1 billion of foreign borrowings in next three years
- EBRD, EU and EIB join forces for water upgrades in Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD launches pioneering index-linked Eurobond in Kazakh tenge
- EU holding conference on fighting corruption in Kyrgyzstan
- Russia’s LUKOIL raises $500 million for Gissar gas project in Uzbekistan
- ADB loan to improve water supply in Uzbekistan’s Tashkent province
- Astana hosts Kazakh-Serbian business forum
- President Nazarbayev to feature on new banknotes in Kazakhstan
- Turkmenistan to host Global Sustainable Transport Conference
- Government reports direct foreign investment growth in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan aims at switching to ‘green’ economy
- EBRD and EU support energy and water efficiency in Kyrgyzstan
- EU special representative completes visit to Kyrgyzstan
- New solar batteries plant opened in Kyrgyzstan with German investment
- France’s Sanofi to produce medicines in Uzbekistan
- Uzbekistan starts exporting home electronics to Ukraine
- Opposition criticizes new Kyrgyz Government program
- Trump triumph and Central Asia connections: a chorus of congratulations from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan, Uzbekistan taking cautious steps to end dam impasse
- Uzbekistan to upgrade hydro power sector
- UNDP to launch a new ‘green’ mobile application in Kazakhstan
- South Korea to help Kazakhstan to develop e-government
- Nazarbayev invites South Korean companies to Kazakhstan
- U.S. embassy warns of possible terrorist attacks in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: loyalist new-look coalition backs crony-filled cabinet
- Turkmenistan’s state budget almost halved in US dollars in two years
- Kazakh and Afghan entrepreneurs seek broader cooperation
- Japanese bank to finance non-oil sector projects in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan’s parliament approves new cabinet of ministers
- Kazakhstan America’s ‘strategic partner’ — U.S. ambassador
- Uzbekistan, S. Korean company produce ecological dyes for textile industry
- Japanese companies may manage Kazakhstan’s special industrial zones, Nazarbayev says
- Iran signs major natural-gas deal with France’s Total
- Kazakhstan promoting agricultural and food export to China
- EU Special Representative for Central Asia visits Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan and Japan sign deals worth $1.2 billion
- Kazakh businessman sentenced to 21 years for attempt to ‘overthrow government’
- Uzbekistan attracts $2.6 billion of foreign investment in Jan-Sept 2016
- Uzbekistan to create three new free economic zones
- Turkmenistan reports economic growth in 10 months of 2016
- Kazakhstan improving motor road infrastructure
- Kyrgyzstan to boost recreational and commercial fishing
- Political changes and volatility in Central Asia: focus on Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
- The ‘rich’ support EEU more often than the ‘poor’ — survey
- WFP/UNICEF, USAID observe programmes in Tajikistan’s Rasht Valley
- Uzbekistan to hold international fruit and vegetable fair
- SCO moving towards increased economic cooperation, free trade zone
- Central Asia is slowing down, EBRD forecast says
- New majority coalition formed in Kyrgyzstan’s parliament
- Uzbek fruit and vegetables enter UAE market
- ADB helps improve road connectivity in Tajikistan
- China and Kyrgyzstan to boost cooperation
- Kyrgyz parliament approves date for referendum on constitutional changes
- Kazakhstan improving transport and logistics infrastructure
- Kazakhstan to auction over 60 subsoil areas in 2017
- Chinese investors explore Kazakhstan’s Karaganda region
- Tajikistan introduces electricity rationing
- France interested in business partnership with South Kazakhstan
- Over 370 companies with foreign capital created in Uzbekistan in 2016
- EBRD finances solid waste improvements in Kyzylorda in Kazakhstan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Oct. 31, 2016
- Coal revival helps cope with power shortages but poses emissions threat in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan expanding activities of free economic zones
- Astana among the world’s top 21 ‘smart cities’
- CICA Secretariat office opens in Astana
- Tajikistan president launches construction of Rogun hydro plant’s dam
- Politics in Kyrgyzstan: overlooking the economic issues
- Tourism in Kyrgyzstan: big potential, poor results
- Most citizens approve of EEU, yet the number of those indifferent to it growing, survey says
- Kazakhstan to provide visa-free regime for citizens of OECD, EEU countries
- World Bank outlines Afghanistan support to cut poverty
- ADB supports small and medium sized businesses in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan and Turkey seek to improve trade logistics
- Uzbekistan increasing fruit and vegetable export
- Oil production at Kashagan to reach 7 million tons in 2017 — ministry
- Economies in Central Asia countries credited with positive reforms, WB report says
- Kazakhstan projects presented in China’s Hunan province
- EBRD and Kazakhstan’s gas operator KazTransGas to work on energy efficiency
- CAREC to develop new long-term strategy under changing economic conditions
- Pro-presidential faction to form new parliamentary majority in Kyrgyzstan
- Afghanistan: war and peace with Taliban negotiations
- Road signs and maps improve tourism experience in Osh in south Kyrgyzstan
- Central Asia economies among top global improvers — Doing Business report
- The most difficult period for Kazakhstan’s economy is over — minister
- Kazakhstan to start exporting meat to China by yearend
- Kazakh law enforcers trained on investigating and recovering stolen assets
- Russia’s Gazprom to embark on new oil and gas projects in Tajikistan
- EBRD funds residential energy efficiency in south Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan’s ‘makers’ explore U.S. technology and innovation
- Kyrgyzstan’s ruling parliamentary coalition collapses
- Foreign investors explore the potential of East Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan’s national atomic company embarks on transformation program
- USAID improves guest house services in southern Kyrgyzstan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Oct. 24, 2016
- Kyrgyzstan’s apparel companies adapt to toughening competition
- Turkmenistan and Tajikistan agro sectors: investor opportunities
- Central Asia, Caucasus need reforms amid weak growth prospects — IMF
- U.S. Under Secretary Shannon to visit Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
- China’s Sichuan province extends cooperation with Central Asian countries
- Investment and Export Promotion Agency created in Kyrgyzstan
- USAID helps connect Kyrgyz agricultural producers with buyers
- Kazakhstan can give Turkey access to markets of EEU, C. Asia, Russia, China
- Tajikistan’s trade with Russia falls, with China grows
- Almaty and Geneva outline cooperation prospects
- Uzbekistan and IDB to prepare cooperation strategy for 2017-2019
- University of Central Asia opens first campus in Naryn in Kyrgyzstan
- EU-Kyrgyzstan cooperation committee addresses reforms, development cooperation
- Uzbekistan’s Angren special industrial zone to launch new productions
- Kazakhstan launches junk cars recycling program
- EBRD and EU launch $46.5 million program for farmers in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyz products in the Japanese market
- Kazakhstan and Switzerland discuss cooperation
- Astana hosts Kazakh-Hungarian business forum
- EBRD supports expansion of Turkmen company into bread making
- China’s agro sector strategy and impacts on Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
- Security situation along Afghan-Tajik border alarms regional powers
- Tajikistan’s industrialization drive
- Turkmenistan to hold next presidential election in February
- IDB to provide $700 million loan for Turkmen section of TAPI gas pipeline
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Oct. 17, 2016
- China and Kyrgyzstan to boost trade, investment
- Week of Italian language to be held in Bishkek
- Uzbekistan ready for presidential poll but economy comes first
- Kyrgyzstan seeking to supply EEU countries with organic food
- Seamless steel pipe production plant launched in Kazakhstan’s Aktau
- German agriculture minister to visit Kyrgyzstan
- New fiberglass plant launched in Uzbekistan’s Jizzakh special industrial zone
- Kazakhstan and Romania enhance economic cooperation
- Playing Together: celebrating 25 years of U.S.-Central Asian cooperation
- First oil coming from Kazakhstan’s Kashagan oil field
- Uzbekistan to hold mass amnesty of prisoners
- EU-Tajikistan Cooperation Committee addresses challenges, desirable reforms
- An interactive map of geology and subsoil use launched in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyz parliament proposes incentives for investors in country’s regions
- 80 municipalities in Kyrgyzstan’s regions to be awarded by Swiss embassy
- ADB helps rehabilitate north-south motor road in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan’s production localization program makes strides
- Coal production in EDB countries record high over the past 20 years
- Kazakhstan gathers record-high grain and rice harvest
- EBRD and EU support electricity upgrades in Osh in Kyrgyzstan
- U.S. embassy warns about possible terrorist attacks in Kyrgyzstan
- Astana to host Kazakh-Hungarian business forum
- Kazakhstan has to move to diversifying economy — IMF official
- EBRD provides loan to Turkmen meat producer
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Oct. 10, 2016
- Kyrgyz science suffers from meager funding, faces limited financial freedom
- The European Week festival to be held in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan: the President and critics of constitutional amendments
- Construction industry in Kyrgyzstan: corruption and unaffordable housing
- Japan interested in Kyrgyz mineral resources, agricultural products
- Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund invests in Kyrgyz sugar industry
- Uzbekistan to encourage entrepreneurship, improve business climate
- Kyrgyzstan’s Uzgen rice export to Middle East discussed with Iran delegation
- Kazakhstan and Sweden discuss cooperation in agriculture, trade
- EDB and Baiterek Holding to finance Kazakh exporters
- ADB to improve water resource management in Tajikistan’s Pyanj river basin
- Int’l community pledges €13.6 billion, continued support to Afghanistan
- Kazakhstan and Russia agree on 27 investment projects worth $4 billion
- EU and Afghanistan agree on return of migrants
- Brussels reiterates Central Asia’s ‘real’ importance to European Union
- Korea, WFP partner to promote food security, reduce poverty in Kyrgyzstan
- Railway: Kyrgyzstan and the southern corridor of Eurasia (part 3)
- Foreign tourists spent $82 million in Tajikistan in first half 2016
- Kazakhstan: experts see political motives in media trial
- Price growth outpaces wage increase in Kazakhstan
- New World Bank-funded rural water supply and sanitation project for Kyrgyzstan
- Closing the broadband divide to connect people in Asia and the Pacific
- Kazakhstan’s Karaganda province to present projects to Chinese investors
- Kazakhstan’s honorary consulate opened in Klagenfurt, Austria
- EBRD credit line to support small businesses in Kyrgyzstan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Oct. 3, 2016
- Uzbekistan: Mirziyoyev flirting with regional reset?
- Kyrgyz parliament approves bills to protect private property, fight corruption
- Switzerland to provide additional funding for elections in Kyrgyzstan
- EDB and Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund sign cooperation agreement
- Kazakhstan aims to attract $10b of FDI in manufacturing industry by yearend
- South Korea to invest $250 million to build new terminal at Tashkent airport
- Kyrgyz parliament approves bill on referendum to amend constitution
- Afghanistan’s president and warlord sign peace accord
- Kyrgyzstan’s gold mining companies facing problems
- Kazakh-Chinese tourism forum held in Astana
- OSCE, World Customs Organization promote cross-border trade in Central Asia
- EU to hold seminar on international investment for Kyrgyz specialists
- USAID celebrates World Tourism Day with Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan’s Mubarek gas processing plant to launch granulated sulfur production
- State support helps Kazakh SMEs increase production, employment
- Kyrgyzstan’s Jalal-Abad city hosts forum on organic agriculture products
- Hungarian experts to train Kazakh farmers
- China to help Tajikistan protect Afghan border
- Business forum in Batken brings together Kyrgyz apricot farmers, int’l buyers
- EBRD $2.8 million loan to help Turkmen company launch potato chips production
- New World Bank director for Central Asia visits Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan
- US brings Kyrgyz tourism to international travel media
- EFSD to provide $110 million loan for Kyrgyzstan’s Kambarata HPP-2
- New ADB-Tajikistan partnership to improve investment climate
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Sept. 26, 2016
- Kyrgyzstan looking for alternative suppliers of Internet services
- Railway: the Kazakhstan corridor (part 2)
- Promoting sustainable development of Turkmenistan’s cities
- ADB president reiterates support for Turkmenistan economic diversification
- Uzbekistan building its first tire plant with China
- Kazakhstan to raise excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco in 2017
- Kazakhstan plans tax incentives for subsoil users
- Afghan government signs peace deal with hard-line militant group
- Bishkek to host Kyrgyz-Japanese economic forum
- Despite crisis, retail services grow in Kazakhstan in first half 2016
- Kazakhstan to attract EUR200 million from EIB for ‘green’ SME projects
- Kazakhstan may produce fuel for Ukraine’s nuclear power reactors
- Afghanistan seeks $6 billion from UAE companies for infrastructure projects
- Kazakhstan and China to jointly assemble buses for EEU market
- Some 13,000 labor migrants arrived in Kazakhstan from EEU countries in 2016
- WFP and Japan partner to empower women farmers in Kyrgyzstan
- ADB vice president deepens partnership with Kyrgyzstan
- Railway: Trans-Eurasia corridor (part 1)
- Foreign direct investment in Kazakhstan grows fivefold in first half 2016
- Kazakhstan hosts Central Asia Water Future Forum
- ADB approves funding to complete Kyrgyzstan’s Toktogul hydro plant rehabilitation
- Kyrgyzstan president cancels trip to UN due to heart problems
- Kazakhstan and Hong Kong seek closer cooperation
- New $2.3 billion terminal opens in Ashgabat airport in Turkmenistan
- Switzerland supports female farmers in Kyrgyzstan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Sept. 19, 2016
- CSTO struggles to find new leadership
- The Second World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan: impressive events, huge costs
- Large potential of small hydro power plants in Kyrgyzstan
- UNDP, Finland support agricultural producers and exporters in south Kyrgyzstan
- Atambayev orders probe against former Kyrgyz interim government members
- EBRD and EU boost finance for energy efficiency in Kyrgyzstan
- USAID agricultural value chains program launched in Uzbekistan
- OSCE opens information centres in Kyrgyzstan to raise awareness on uranium legacy remediation
- Switzerland and EBRD help upgrade water services in Bishkek
- US delivers food assistance to vulnerable populations in Uzbekistan
- India to provide $1 billion in economic aid to Afghanistan
- Constitutional amendments pave way for lifelong rule for Turkmen president
- Kazakh banks show mixed long-term profitability results
- Uzbekistan modernizes major power plants
- Kazakhstan government updates economic forecast for 2016
- Kazakhstan’s cabinet reshuffled, Nazarbayev’s daughter appointed Senate member
- ADB new country director for Kazakhstan vows to enhance partnership
- Foreign investors gather in West Kazakhstan
- Foreign tour operators visit Kazakhstan on Astana EXPO’s eve
- Nazarbayev visits Uzbekistan, meets acting Uzbek president
- National Bank calls on Kazakhstan citizens to think in tenge
- Kazakhstan’s Kyzylorda region expanding rice export
- Dialogue, trust and security in focus at Central Asian Youth Network
- Kazakhstan’s government reshuffle: latest shift in upper ranks
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Sept. 12, 2016
- Stable national currency in Kyrgyzstan’s weak economy
- Uzbekistan’s succession: regime seeks to retain legitimacy, legacy and stability
- Museum in Kyrgyzstan’s Karakol presents photos of Swiss traveler and journalist
- Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan reviving trade relations
- New prime minister appointed in Kazakhstan
- Foreign investment in Kazakhstan’s economy growing
- Kazakhstan to export 8.5 million tons of grain
- Jordan ready to build a pharmaceutical plant in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan’s prime minister dismissed, appointed national security chief
- Prime Minister Mirziyaev appointed interim president of Uzbekistan
- Chinese company to produce mineral fertilizer in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan to export soybeans, increase wheat export to China
- UNDP, Japan help strengthen disaster risk reduction, response capacities in Tajikistan
- Meeting in Turkmenistan focuses on confidence building, infrastructure in Afghanistan
- Major int’l companies donate €125 million for Astana EXPO-2017
- Shell to deepen energy cooperation with Kazakhstan
- Russian president visits Karimov’s grave in Samarkand, meets Uzbek PM
- Kyrgyz authorities say Uyghur terrorists behind China embassy bombing in Bishkek
- Kazakhstan to trade with China via the Internet
- Kazakhstan and China to build production facilities worth $26 billion
- Leader of Tajikistan’s banned Islamic party wanted by Interpol
- Kazakh authorities say Islamists planned to hijack plane for terrorist act
- Uzbekistan after Karimov: a scenario of discord?
- Kazakhstan president suggests establishing global economic regulator
- EDB opens $5-million credit line to Halyk Bank Kyrgyzstan
- Former Tajik special forces colonel becomes top Daesh commander in Iraq
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Sept. 5, 2016
- Kyrgyz migrant workers in Russia: EEU privileges, fires and blacklist
- Uzbekistan after Karimov
- Central Asia: measuring the geopolitical impact of the Bishkek bombing
- EU will have to accept EEU as equal dialogue partner — report
- Uzbekistan government announces death of President Karimov
- U.S. delegation to compete at Second World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyz ex-Prime Minister calls for seeking consensus on constitutional reform
- Kazakhstan to reduce dependence on raw materials, support exporters
- Uzbek Government says Karimov alive but in ‘critical’ condition
- Kazkommertsbank accounts for over 25% of Kazakhstan’s loan market
- Kazakhstan to start exporting meat and honey to China this year
- Uzbekistan introducing automated electricity metering control system
- 25 years of Kyrgyzstan’s independence: lost hopes and debatable Constitution
- President Karimov’s Independence Day address read out on Uzbek TV
- Kyrgyzstan’s budget: spending up, revenue down
- Kazakhstan: a quarter-century of post-Soviet illusions (part 5)
- Central Asia often overlooked because of relative stability — US official
- OSCE assesses impact of economic crisis on independent media in Tajikistan
- Iran and Armenia to create free trade zone to expand Iran’s ties with EEU
- FAO launches new global initiative: Coping with water scarcity in agriculture
- Suicide bomber attacks Chinese embassy in Bishkek
- Turkmenistan’s president visits Germany
- U.S. helps preserve Turkmenistan’s cultural heritage
- Kazakhstan and China to increase rail cargo transportation
- Who could replace Uzbekistan’s president
- Turkmenistan: a quarter-century of post-Soviet illusions (part 4)
- ADB’s $240m loan to help Kazakhstan modernize transport, improve connectivity
- EDB extends first $20-million tranche of EFSD financial credit to Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov hospitalized
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Aug. 29, 2016
- Kyrgyz farmers can not enter foreign markets
- Tajikistan: a quarter-century of post-Soviet illusions (part 3)
- Kyrgyzstan to launch new mining enterprises
- U.S. completes USAID Land Reform and Farm Restructuring Project in Tajikistan
- Tashkent tractor plant and German СLAAS to set up JV in Uzbekistan
- Kazakh agricultural producers seek access to China market
- USAID assists Kyrgyz farmers in supplying products to a supermarkets chain
- Switzerland helps municipalities of Kyrgyzstan regions improve life of citizens
- Tajikistan launches railroad linking Dushanbe and Khatlon bypassing Uzbekistan
- Tajik president inaugurates new cement plant
- Kyrgyz president orders to review past border agreements with neighboring states
- Tajikistan parliament passes law on mass amnesty
- Uzbekistan: a quarter-century of post-Soviet illusions (part 2)
- Serbia gains Kazakhstan support for duty-free export of Fiat vehicles to EEU
- Kazakhstan’s petrochemical industry makes strides
- OSCE supports project to improve municipal services delivery in Balykchy, Kyrgyzstan
- US helps expand business opportunities for young Kyrgyz entrepreneurs
- Kazakhstan detains radical group members plotting terrorist acts in Almaty
- Broader export base needed to sustain Tajikistan’s growth — ADB study
- U.S. helps construct new border post in Uzbekistan
- Irrigation canal rehabilitated in south Kyrgyzstan with UK support
- Chinese companies look to Almaty industrial zone
- Uzbekistan’s banking system shows growth
- Kazakhstan, UNDP, Japan launch Kazakhstan’s assistance project for Afghanistan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Aug. 22, 2016
- Tajikistan: bogus vanishing, thrashing pile misery on bank
- Kyrgyzstan: a quarter-century of post-Soviet illusions (part 1)
- U.S. donates $12m of equipment and vehicles to Tajikistan border guard agency
- OSCE promotes women’s economic empowerment in rural areas of Kazakhstan
- Business Council to attract Turkish capital to Tajik economy
- Bank loans to Kazakhstan economy up in first half of 2016
- EU disburses first tranche of EUR 5m to support electoral reform in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan president extends moratorium on leasing farmland to foreigners
- Afghanistan: the Taliban advance a threat to Central Asia
- Kumtor Q2 2016 gold production ‘in line with expectations and plans’
- Iran to resume Caspian oil swap scheme with Russia and Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan ready to create favorable conditions for foreign business — FM
- Tajikistan president proposes mass amnesty to honor country’s independence
- Tajikistan exports 79 thousand tons of cement to Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan completing high speed rail route between Tashkent and Bukhara
- UNICEF, Embassy of Israel in Turkmenistan strengthen capacity in newborn and intensive care
- Kazakhstan housing prices go up
- EDB to provide $40 million credit to support economic reforms in Tajikistan
- 145 companies in Almaty Technopark produce over 500 types of products
- Kazakhstan promotes productive innovation
- Unexplained curfew enforced in Turkmen city near Afghan border
- Dushanbe hosts regional workshop on integrated pest management
- Kazakhstan would extend moratorium on leasing farmland to foreigners
- WB director for C. Asia attends donor conference on Tajik Nurek hydro plant rehabilitation
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Aug. 15, 2016
- Central Asian countries advised mutually beneficial electricity exchange
- Kazakhstan: authorities see (legal) economic high in cannabis
- EBRD finances Centerra’s gold mine project in Turkey
- Islamic State leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan reportedly killed
- Azeri company to complete strategic road in Uzbekistan
- EDB may finance rehabilitation of Nurek hydro power plant in Tajikistan
- USAID improves childhood, adolescent TB diagnosis, treatment in Kyrgyzstan
- UNDP trains energy efficiency managers for Turkmenistan
- South Kazakhstan to cooperate with Austria
- Kazakhstan expects FDI recover up to $9 billion by year-end
- Fruit-and-berry festival helps expand Kyrgyz farmers’ production, export potential
- UCA brings together best students from Central Asia
- Iran becoming Turkmenistan’s rival in natural gas export
- Tajikistan increases production and export of aluminum
- Venice Commission ready to provide Kyrgyz authorities with opinion on constitutional amendments
- Uzbek-German JV to produce cabins for MAN trucks
- Almaty the leader in Kazakhstan’s capital legalization campaign
- New transit corridor to link India, Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia and Europe
- ADB to help improve private sector investment climate in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan to install mobile solar power stations in the country
- Russia and ASEAN take first step to create EEU-ASEAN free trade zone
- Uzbek-Chinese joint venture launches cement plant in Karakalpakstan
- Russian telecom company leaving Uzbekistan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Aug. 8, 2016
- Pros and cons of proposed constitutional amendments in Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan: President pleads for cash from world’s Muslims
- Uzbekistan: labour migration and domestic economic struggles (part 2)
- Kazakhstan to purge ‘terror links’ from Gulen-linked schools, not close them
- Uzbekistan to produce 800 thousand tons of cotton fiber in 2016
- Chinese investment in Tajikistan up, Russian investment down
- EBRD finances purchase of ‘green’ buses for Kyzylorda in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan to deprive terrorism and extremism convicts of citizenship
- USKZ Fest kicks off in Almaty to mark 25 years of U.S.-Kazakhstan relations
- Kazakhstan state oil company fails to gain full control of upstream subsidiary
- Moody’s maintains stable outlook on Uzbekistan’s banking system
- U.S. takes another step to re-engage in Central Asia region
- China quietly displacing both Russia and US from Central Asia
- Tajikistan mulls EEU membership, feels pull of Russia
- Japan helps improve quality control of dairy products in Kyrgyzstan
- Polymetal completes acquisition of Komarovskoye gold deposit in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan will not close schools linked to Turkish cleric
- New rail route for LNG transportation opens between China and Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan’s civil aviation needs financing
- Kazakhstan’s automobile industry on way to recovery
- Kazakhstanis transfer to abroad more money than they get back
- Kyrgyzstan: MPs clamor for constitutional fixes
- Kyrgyzstan establishes Guarantee Fund to support lending of SMEs
- Switzerland and EBRD support wastewater upgrade in Osh in Kyrgyzstan
- Afghan government forces ‘losing ground’ to Taliban — U.S. report
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Aug. 1, 2016
- Kyrgyzstan investment visa: difficult to obtain and expensive
- Is Turkey becoming a banana republic?
- Kyrgyzstan: foreign remittance with labour migration up (part 1)
- Erdogan’s response to the coup: it’s what Atatürk did before him
- Botanical Garden should be revived in Kyrgyzstan, ecologists say
- Afghanistan becomes WTO member
- Switzerland helps improve health of rural population in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan reports impressive economic growth in first half of 2016
- DBK and Almex to jointly attract foreign investment to Kazakh economy
- The Afghan terror warning sign on Central Asia’s doorstep
- Kyrgyzstan to build mountain ski cluster at Issyk-Kul
- Union of Farmers of Kazakhstan against lease of farmland by foreigners
- National-currency deposits in Kazakhstan banks up 44%
- Turkmen central bank stops currency conversion for local companies
- Russian FM speaks about possible EEU-ASEAN integration
- Salted apricot kernels Uzbekistan’s most expensive agricultural export item
- Kyrgyzstan and WFP launch skills training for food security
- Korea to start new healthcare project in Uzbekistan
- UN reports record high level of civilian casualties in Afghanistan
- Labor migration from Tajikistan to Russia reportedly down
- Uzbekistan and France discuss further cooperation
- Fitch upgrades ratings of 4 state-controlled Uzbek banks
- Kazakhstan and Belarus advance economic cooperation
- Kazakhstan’s long road to recovery
- Public discussions on natural resources management in southern Kyrgyzstan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of July 25, 2016
- Turkmenistan: President’s son gets foreign ministry job
- Why foreign investors are reluctant to invest in Kyrgyzstan
- Big changes needed to resolve critical situation in Kyrgyzstan’s mining industry
- First assembly meeting of EC-funded uranium mining legacy fund for Central Asia
- Tajikistan not ready to join EEU, expert says
- Chinese company to invest in the export of Uzbek food
- Kazakhstan’s agro-industrial sector waiting for investors
- Kazakhstan to create a new agricultural investment fund
- Uzbekistan striving to increase fruit and vegetable export
- National horse games festival to be held in south Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan to hold Issyk-Kul economic forum
- OSCE to cooperate with Kyrgyz State Committee of National Security
- Tajikistan considering EEU entry
- Kazakh atomic company and China strengthen nuclear cooperation
- Tashkent says Tajikistan could build smaller hydro plants instead of Rogun
- Afghan Taliban says it poses no threat to Central Asian countries
- Kyrgyz fruit and vegetables exported to Russia
- ADB trims 2016 growth forecast for Central Asia from 2.1% to 1.7%
- EBRD loan to support private sector in Tajikistan
- Kazakh authorities say lone ‘Islamist’ gunman behind deadly Almaty shootings
- Almaty on alert after deadly attack on police and national security facility
- Failed coup in Turkey a message to Central Asia: the cases of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
- Western Tien-Shan added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
- Pressures on Kyrgyz economy beginning to moderate — IMF
- Bishkek hosts conference to promote interfaith and intercultural tolerance
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of July 18, 2016
- Kyrgyzstan preparing for Nomad Games, striving to improve tourism industry
- Merkel in Kyrgyzstan: no news from the western front
- Kyrgyzstan tries to prevent human trafficking and monitor migration
- A military coup attempt in Turkey appears to have failed
- EDB cautiously optimistic as to recovery of growth, trade in member countries
- Uzbekistan to complete new fertilizer production facility by yearend
- Polish business ready to invest in joint projects in Kazakhstan
- Historic centre of Shakhrisyabz in Uzbekistan added to List of World Heritage in Danger
- German federal chancellor visits Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan’s Dangara oil refinery to be launched late in August
- Norway closes its embassy in Astana
- Foreign ministers meet over Caspian Sea legal status
- Kyrgyzstan’s foreign trade and exports falling down
- FAO project to improve food security of Tajik migrants’ households
- Museums, travel agencies join efforts to improve tourism experience in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court orders retrial of activist Askarov’s case
- Switzerland supports healthcare in Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan’s economy to shift from agriculture to industry
- A free trade zone under construction on Tajik-Chinese border
- Shinhan Bank Kazakhstan to finance women entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan
- Central Asia and Turkey’s repentance: too early for Turkish delight
- Kazakhstan to borrow over $300 million to reconstruct irrigation system
- Kazakhstan’s currency market stabilizing — National Bank head
- Islamabad says Afghan leaders blame Pakistan for all failures in Afghanistan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of July 11, 2016
- Construction woes in Kyrgyzstan
- U.S. embassy holding summer film screenings in Turkmenistan
- World Bank supports governance and competitiveness in Kyrgyzstan
- Workshop on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism in Kyrgyzstan
- Germany’s Federal Chancellor Merkel to visit Kyrgyzstan
- Italian company says Rogun’s first turbines in Tajikistan to be launched in 2018
- ADB loan to help fuel small business lending, stimulate jobs in Uzbekistan
- Afghan president welcomes U.S. decision to slow down troops withdrawal
- Kyrgyzstan’s debt nearing $4 billion
- Samsung refrigerators will be made in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan producers looking to US market
- Potato farmers in south Kyrgyzstan achieve record profits with US support
- Central Asia terror cells and Turkish connection
- SCO summit in Uzbekistan: no clues on how the organization will fight Islamic terrorism
- Russian president ratifies duty-free delivery of oil products to Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan’s Diplomatic Business Club marks first anniversary
- Chevron announces Tengiz oil field expansion project in Kazakhstan
- South Korea to build textile techno-park in Uzbekistan
- Textile and garment exports to Central Asia via China’s Xinjiang on the rise
- Kazakhstan needs strategy for transition to low-carbon development
- Kyrgyzstan to reform law enforcement system
- China relocating heavy enterprises to Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan to export cars to Russia and Central Asia
- Nazarbayev orders to update Kazakhstan’s industrialization program
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of July 4, 2016
- Useless anti-corruption standards, municipal property management violations aggravate corruption in Kyrgyzstan
- Central Asia: wine offers perspective to investors
- Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan remain on the EU Air Safety List
- Nazarbayev instructs government to support Kazakh export
- Italian company wins tender for construction of Tajikistan’s Rogun power plant
- Kazakhstan jumps 11 positions up in Logistics Performance Index
- Tajikistan’s import still largely exceeds export
- Bombers who attacked Istanbul airport said to be from Russia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
- Silk Road Ultra Marathon celebrates 25 years of US-Central Asia partnership
- Kyrgyzstan sets up Guarantee Fund to support small and medium business
- Kazakh companies to be assessed by national ratings
- Iran and Turkmenistan implementing goods-for-energy barter
- Kazakh producers involved in import substitution ask for state support
- Kazakh national atomic company sells three subsidiaries
- Kazakhstan elected to UN Security Council
- Bishkek hosts regional discussion on security sector governance and reform
- Kyrgyz beekeepers start breeding pedigreed bees
- Kazakhstan’s automobile industry shows signs of recovery
- China and Kyrgyzstan vow further cooperation
- OSCE promotes environmental security, supports clean-up campaign at Issyk-Kul
- Fighting corruption and improving access to justice for the most vulnerable in Kyrgyzstan
- From July 1, tourists will have access to Mount Khan Tengri from Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan completes strategic road in the south
- Tajikistan and Aga Khan Foundation open tourism, sports and culture facilities
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of June 27, 2016
- Central Asians ‘rediscover’ Russian as a social stabiliser and economic catalyst
- Troubled borrowers in Kyrgyzstan demand their debts be written off
- Tajik president inaugurates AKF-supported projects in Bartang Valley
- Kyrgyzstan hopes to boost exports, investments by restructuring Government
- UNDP and Global Fund help defeat drug-resistant TB in Turkmenistan
- India and Pakistan to join SCO in 2017
- EBRD and AIIB team up to co-finance road in Tajikistan
- UNDP and Turkmenistan sign action plan through 2020
- Conference focuses on employment, trade, sustainable growth in Central Asia
- EDB to help finance Jerooy gold mine development in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan parliament approves bill restricting foreign media ownership
- In Uzbekistan, Chinese and Uzbek leaders open Central Asia’s longest railway tunnel
- Bishkek hosts first Internet Governance Forum in Central Asia
- Uzbekistan pledges support to foreign investment
- US promoting Kyrgyz cultural heritage, tourism through stronger museums
- Tajikistan sets strategic development goals
- First ever hypermarket opens in Tajikistan with EBRD support
- Uzbekistan targets at fivefold increase in home electronics production
- Kazakhstan’s trade with CAREC countries reaches $22 billion
- Australian company starts oil production in Tajikistan
- Tethys, Total and CNPC in arbitration dispute over Tajik oil and gas field
- Centerra comments on renewed probe into Kumtor agreements
- Germany looks to Kyrgyzstan’s agricultural and food sectors
- India to seek support for Nuclear Suppliers Group membership at SCO summit in Tashkent
- Combating violent extremism discussed at international conference in Kyrgyzstan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of June 20, 2016
- For protection from ‘terrorists,’ Moscow offers Central Asians air defense
- Kazakhstan’s agro-sector capital-strapped: investment delayed by trade tycoons
- IDB promises to support Kyrgyzstan’s halal industry
- EU and Slovak Republic funds boost residential energy efficiency in Kyrgyzstan
- Activists protest bill banning foreign media ownership in Kyrgyzstan
- Business community in Kazakhstan asks government to reduce inspections
- Kazakhstan’s business adopts anti-corruption charter
- Corruption in public procurement of national companies a problem in Kazakhstan
- Turkmenistan would abolish free quotas for natural gas, water and electricity
- Remittances from Central Asian labor migrants sharply decrease
- US promotes sales of Kyrgyz decorative stone in international markets
- EBRD and Silk Road Fund agree to cooperate
- Kazakh entrepreneurs to take part in Global Entrepreneurship Summit
- Sustainable growth, job creation focus of new World Bank strategy in Uzbekistan
- Tajik-Chinese industrial zone to be established in Tajik city of Istiklol
- Kazakh government adjusts economic policy
- UN Information and Resource Center opens in Dushanbe
- Foreign direct investments reduce in Kyrgyzstan in first quarter
- EU and EBRD help rehabilitate Kyrgyzstan’s uranium mine sites
- Trading house for domestic producers to open in Kazakhstan’s capital
- World-known online taxi service to work in Astana
- European brands seek opportunities with Kyrgyz apparel manufacturers
- Nazarbayev accuses Salafi movement of Aktobe attacks, orders to tighten laws
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of June 13, 2016
- CIS needs reformatting to be more effective
- UK business delegation visits Turkmenistan
- Kyrgyzstan advised to aggressively tap key and emerging tourism markets
- EU informs Kyrgyz exporters on using GSP+ scheme
- EU and EBRD help upgrade Bishkek’s waste collection fleet
- Center West road corridor in Kazakhstan gets World Bank support
- Kazakhstan welcomes investment from Bulgaria
- U.S. says trial of Islamic party members ‘silences opposition voices’ in Tajikistan
- The share of IT sector to reach 5% of GDP in Kazakhstan
- Online regional business map presented to foreign embassies in Kazakhstan
- Kazakh President Nazarbayev says Aktobe attacks orchestrated from abroad
- OSCE and Tajikistan outline priorities for cooperation for 2017
- Violence in Kazakhstan’s Aktobe: 19 killed
- U.S. donates vehicles to Tajik border guards
- West Kazakhstan presents investment opportunities to French business
- Rights watchdogs, UN condemn Tajik opposition activists sentences
- Standoff between Kyrgyzstan and Centerra over Kumtor continues
- Kazakhstan’s Samruk-Kazyna to auction 10 companies until end-July
- Kazakhstan would privatize oil refineries after modernization — minister
- EIB supports water and solid waste infrastructure in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakh businessman accused of financing land protests to seize power
- Kyrgyzstan’s capacity to meet its CASA-1000 obligations comes under question
- Turkic Council countries set to introduce common customs procedures
- Afghanistan and India inaugurate major dam in Herat
- Suspected militants attack a military base, gun stores in Kazakhstan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of June 6, 2016
- Parliamentary system still in the making in Kyrgyzstan
- Assessing the death of Mullah Mansour and its impact on the Taliban leadership
- Terrorism in Central Asia: Will Al-Qaeda take control over Uzbek terror movement?
- Kyrgyz-Swiss trade and economic cooperation commission meets in Bishkek
- Kazakhstan working on over 200 small and medium investment projects
- Assets worth $4.4 billion legalized in Kazakhstan so far
- Kyrgyzstan and Russia hold inter-regional cooperation forum
- Tajikistan sentences leaders of banned Islamic party
- Bishkek to host first EXPO ‘Made in Kyrgyzstan’
- Oil and gas remains Uzbekistan’s largest export item
- Kazakhstan looking for markets to export surplus electricity
- Strategy of Europe-Caucasus-Asia transport corridor adopted
- Uzbekistan ranked among five worst offenders in terms of modern slavery
- Kyrgyzstan suggests moving production facilities from China
- OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative visits Central Asia
- Eurasian Economic Union to start trade-deal negotiations with China
- No reason to be afraid of Chinese leasing Kazakh land — deputy PM
- Kyrgyz prime minister vows to support exporters
- Kazakhstan and Canada set up a business council
- Human rights meeting in Tajikistan gathers government and civil society
- Kazatomprom and Cameco restructure Inkai JV
- Land-law protesters face criminal charges in Kazakhstan
- US helps strengthen museums to promote heritage, tourism in Kyrgyzstan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of May 30, 2016
- Kyrgyzstan to develop new industrialization program
- Centerra ‘strongly disputes’ Kyrgyzstan’s claims concerning Kumtor
- Central Asia better protected with India and Pakistan membership to SCO
- Kazakhstan Foreign Investors’ Council focuses on Astana Int’l Financial Centre
- Central Asia and Russian and European sanctions: manufacturing locally with a foreign partner
- UNDP praises green economy policy pursued by Kazakhstan
- EBRD makes new investments worth €350 million in Kazakhstan
- ADB vice-president discusses partnership with Kazakhstan
- Kazakh president voices global initiatives at Astana Economic Forum
- First-ever batch of Kyrgyz cotton exported to Bangladesh
- Uzbekistan to boost production and export of fresh and processed foods
- Qatar interested in importing food products from Kazakhstan
- EBRD president visits Turkmenistan
- Central Asia and the Aral Sea’s ungraceful death
- 150-million euro solar power plant will be built near Astana in Kazakhstan
- Italian companies looking to Kazakhstan
- World Bank helps improve real property and cadastre system in Uzbekistan
- IMF managing director visits Kazakhstan
- Killing of Taliban leader reduces likelihood of Afghan peace talks
- Iran, India, and Afghanistan sign strategic transit agreement
- Iran and India finalize Chabahar port development
- Uzbekistan and Korea launch Ustyurt Gas Chemical Complex
- Kyrgyzstan: MPs introduce bill to increase control over media
- Referendum in Tajikistan tightens President Rakhmon’s grip on power
- Russia’s LUKOIL launches construction of a lubricants plant in Kazakhstan
- Journalists and activists detained amid land-law protests in Kazakhstan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of May 23, 2016
- Kazakhstan to hold Eurasian Economic Union-European Union forum
- Nine power companies united into Energy Holding in Kyrgyzstan
- Radicalism thrives among Central Asia migrant workers in Russia
- EEU two years later: expansion and unbalance. The case of Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD president to visit Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan to discuss investment
- South Korean investors to buy stakes in three Uzbek banks
- Kazakhstan and India to boost trade, economic cooperation
- Kazakhstan’s state companies to increase purchases from domestic producers
- Kyrgyzstan’s Kumtor mine decreases gold output in Q1 2016
- Afghanistan: the reality behind the rhetoric
- Nazarbayev points out positive economic trends in Kazakhstan
- Kazakh authorities crack down on activists ahead of planned land-law protests
- Son of former Kyrgyz prime minister jailed for espionage
- Kazakhstan redirecting foreign investments to processing industries
- Kazakh banks to on-lend pension funds to businesses
- EU reiterates concern about human rights situation in Turkmenistan
- Kazakhstan hosts cross-regional public procurement forum
- South Korea to build new terminal at Tashkent airport
- EBRD to finance waste management upgrade in Khujand in Tajikistan
- FAO helps make agriculture more productive and sustainable in Central Asia
- Iranian company to build wind farm in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan: President trash-talks opposition following coup arrests
- Kyrgyzstan and Iran to set up joint investment council
- ODIHR welcomes rejection of controversial draft NGO law in Kyrgyzstan
- OSCE supports 7th Forum on Internet Development in Central Asia
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of May 16, 2016
- CASA-1000 energy project: four countries ready for long-term cooperation
- Reconstruction of Issyk-Kul Ring Road going on in Kyrgyzstan
- Uyghur minorities in Central Asia: an ethnic group between hammer and anvil
- China opens the year of tourism in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan and Russia agree to reset bilateral ties
- OSCE supports strengthening aviation security in Turkmenistan
- U.S. government supports Tajikistan’s law on dehkan farms
- Kyrgyz opposition politicians detained for alleged plan to overthrow government
- Lawmakers reject controversial NGO law in Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD projects slower growth in Central Asia in 2016 but optimistic for 2017
- Festival of Japanese Culture at Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan looking to Belarus as a transit partner
- EBRD to cooperate with China-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
- Kyrgyzstan’s foreign debt reaches $3.6 billion
- EBRD, Switzerland strengthen support for small business in Central Asia
- World Bank promotes private sector development in Tajikistan
- Afghan president visits Tajikistan
- Daesh (IS) and criminal syndicates after the gold of Central Asia
- Uzbekistan pursuing wind power generation plans
- Kyrgyzstan: President demands Russians respect his countrymen
- Japan shows interest in development of Iran’s port
- Moody’s: Kazakhstan’s rating supported by low public debt, sizable fiscal reserves
- Kazakhstan and China’s Xinjiang sign $2 billion deals
- Turkmenistan and Iran seek wider cooperation
- Kyrgyzstan’s growth to slow to about 3% in 2016 — IMF
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of May 9, 2016
- Kyrgyzstan’s tourism industry pins hopes on Second World Nomad Games
- Afghanistan’s mining industry controlled by terrorists and gangs
- Kyrgyz farmers need government support to enter foreign markets
- The places tourists must visit in Kazakhstan
- In Kazakhstan, instability is the lay of the land
- UN park opens in Osh in Kyrgyzstan
- Switzerland supports future leaders of Central Asia
- Nazarbayev says Kazakh agriculture needs investment to raise productivity
- Kazakhstan president declares moratorium on amendments to Land Code
- Central Asia battered by external shocks — IMF
- WFP launching school feeding pilot bakeries in Tajikistan
- Real per capita income falls by 24 percent in Tajikistan — survey
- Mining blues in Kyrgyzstan: Kumtor, Centerra once more targeted
- China will undermine Russia’s military influence in Central Asia
- Kazakh food store opens in Moscow
- Tajikistan looking for investors to modernize its largest hydro power plant
- Kazakhstan to export wine to China, Russia and Europe
- Kumtor Gold says its top managers’ departure from Kyrgyzstan was long-planned
- ADB and AIIB sign MoU to strengthen cooperation for sustainable growth
- Kazakhstan to auction 101 mineral deposits
- Land privatization plan causes tensions in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan’s credit rating downgraded
- EBRD becomes shareholder of Globaltruck Kazakhstan
- World Bank helps improve health service delivery in Kazakhstan
- U.S. helps promote awareness of importance of traffic safety in Kyrgyzstan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of May 2
- Central Asia’s ‘Karabakhs’ may be even more dangerous than the original
- Central Asia reviving old cooperation schemes with Iran
- Turkmenistan’s gas sales: the choice between cash and ash
- Kyrgyzstan in the EEU: persisting problems, vague prospects
- Switzerland provides assistance to local authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s regions
- Centerra reports search of Kumtor Gold Company’s Bishkek office
- Astana hosts OIC Ministerial Conference on Food Security
- IDB provides $300 million for water projects in Kazakhstan
- UNDP assists in developing Turkmen civil society
- World Bank supports quality improvement for labor force in Uzbekistan
- Domestic producers meet 95% of Kazakhstan’s need for basic food products
- World Bank and Turkmenistan hold conference on increasing competitiveness
- Kyrgyzstan hosting Central Asia border security conference
- New parliamentary speaker elected in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan’s new Prime Minister announces new standards of governing
- Uzbek president speaks on Afghan peace talks, Uzbek export to Russia
- Kazakhstan and Spain set up business council
- Taiwanese business developing cooperation with Kazakhstan
- US helps Kyrgyz tourism companies to promote destinations in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan: secularisation policies and terrorism
- No sale of Kazakh land to foreigners — Nazarbayev
- U.S. government donates books for Tajik school children
- CASA-1000 power transmission project to be inaugurated in May
- Kyrgyz court ready to revise ruling against jailed rights activist
- Kyrgyzstan export with Italians — a new manufacturing approach
- Kazakhstan to revamp its tourist industry
- Investments in fixed assets grow in Kazakhstan
- UNDP holds first interactive dialogue on climate change in Turkmenistan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of April 25, 2016
- Afghanistan: Taliban spring offensive and increasing threat to Central Asia
- New Energy Holding in Kyrgyzstan: a future success or a failure?
- Gold mining in Kyrgyzstan: too many licenses, little performance
- OSCE supports training of Kyrgyz journalists on countering violent extremism
- ADB lending reaches record high to meet rising regional demand for finance
- Remittances from Russia to Central Asian countries continue to fall
- Kazakhstan to complete modernization of Shymkent refinery by end-2017
- UN committee urges Kyrgyzstan to release jailed activist
- Polymetal to become second-largest gold producer in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan’s gold reserves estimated at 9.5 thousand tons
- EU and Kyrgyzstan enhance cooperation in education, democratic elections
- Resorts on Kyrgyz lake Issyk-Kul can receive environmental upgrade
- Virtuoso Spanish guitarist to play in Bishkek
- Capital legalization campaign gathering speed in Kazakhstan
- Russia’s LUKOIL starts building a large gas processing plant in Uzbekistan
- Tender for building Kara-Keche power plant in Kyrgyzstan did not take place
- Kazakhstan plans to offer agricultural land for private ownership
- Afghanistan and Tajikistan to intensify cross-border trade opportunities
- Switzerland supports rural municipalities in Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan seeks loan from AIIB for road project
- Investments in Tajikistan totaled almost $1 billion in 2015
- Extended Friday prayer break for Muslims proposed in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan have common view on region’s trans-boundary rivers
- Kazakhstan’s Aktobe second after Astana in terms of business climate
- Tajikistan lawmakers approve bill on President Rakhmon’s Day
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of April 18, 2016
- Afghanistan: terrorism or war all moving closer to Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan and UAE establish closer trade and investment cooperation
- Kyrgyzstan: new prime minister, old economic challenges
- Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund launches lending program for SMEs
- Bishkek to host European Union Film Festival
- Kazakhstan the richest and Tajikistan the poorest country in CIS
- World Bank supports catastrophe insurance market in Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan to sell state-owned shares in two commercial banks
- Kazakhstan and EU looking for alternative agro export routes
- World Bank and AIIB sign first co-financing framework agreement
- Kazakhstan the largest recipient of World Bank funds in Europe, Central Asia
- Kazakh parliament concerned about lack of long money for business
- New Prime Minister appointed in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan encourages production and export of fruit and vegetables
- Most of Uzbek cotton-processing factories will not attract foreign investment
- Chinese investors increasing activity in Tajik free economic zones
- Kazakhstan and Iran to establish joint shipping company in the Caspian
- EU launches new project to enhance criminal justice in Kazakhstan
- Strengthening of tenge may harm Kazakh economy — National Bank
- Rights organizations urge EU to defer approval of Turkmenistan agreement
- Kazakhstan and Iran sign deals worth over $2 billion
- Kyrgyzstan’s Prime Minister Sariyev resigns but says will stay in politics
- Kyrgyz business and government need better understanding
- Turkmen president sacks economic officials as country’s GDP growth slows
- India to invest $20 billion in development of Iran’s Chabahar port
- ISIS acting quietly to expand presence in Afghanistan — Russian envoy
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of April 11, 2016
- Kyrgyzstan’s border trouble between crime and economics
- Central Asia countries and US to foster international trade, investment
- Kyrgyzstan’s economy in figures
- Guitar quartet from Switzerland giving concerts in Kyrgyzstan
- HIV test required for those seeking marriage license in Turkmenistan
- Central Asia to show practically no growth in 2016 — World Bank
- Investment agreement signed for TAPI gas pipeline
- Kazakhstan’s economy remains highly energy intensive
- Iran to increase oil production to 4 million bpd
- Tajikistan parliament proposes public holiday marking Rakhmon presidency
- Investors from Iran to grow grain crops, raise sheep in Kazakhstan’s Aktobe
- China to build a hydro power plants cascade in Kyrgyzstan
- FAO training helps to increase rural investment in Central Asia
- New World Bank project to strengthen property market in Tajikistan
- Kazakh agricultural export totaled $1.1 billion in 2015
- Kyrgyzstan takes back Issyk-Kul resorts from Uzbekistan
- U.S. supports efforts to restore Aral Sea
- Turkey considers investment opportunities in Kazakhstan’s Pavlodar region
- Polymetal acquires gold deposit in Kazakhstan
- Kazatomprom and ConverDyn launch joint uranium marketing initiative
- Kazakhstan opens trading house in Afghanistan
- U.S. and Central Asia: prosperity through partnership
- United States supports tourism development in Karakol in Kyrgyzstan
- OSCE, Kyrgyzstan agree on extending operations of OSCE Academy in Bishkek
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of April 4, 2016
- Central Asia: China’s railway takes detours
- Foreign investments depend on political stability in Kyrgyzstan
- Central Asia banks: some bankrupt, others near collapse
- Loan agreement on rehabilitation of Kyrgyzstan’s Toktogul HPP takes effect
- Kazakh-Hungarian Investment Fund starts working in Kazakhstan’s agriculture
- ADB expands trade finance program in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyz prime minister names key investment attraction measures
- German FM discusses regional issues with Kyrgyzstan president
- Tourism development program presented in Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan needs to focus on competitive industries and exports – ADB
- Kazakhstan to reform approach to attracting investment
- German foreign minister starts Central Asia tour in Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan and EU agree to extend cooperation
- Turkish company plans to build waste processing plant in Osh in Kyrgyzstan
- Japan’s One Village One Product model to cover more regions in Kyrgyzstan
- Kazakhstan attracts investors through diplomats
- Security cameras, metal detectors to be installed in Tajik mosques
- Kumtor gold mine has little effect on glaciers in Kyrgyzstan, experts say
- Italian business exploring opportunities in Kazakhstan’s Mangistau region
- Tenge stabilizing in Kazakhstan
- Russia grants $2m to support agro production, tourism at Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan’s former State Secretary charged with attempt to seize power
- Almaty to host workshop on radicalization in Central Asia
- Uzbekistan modernizing power plants
- Kazakhstan to export agricultural products to China
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of March 28, 2016
- Kazakhstan and Central Asia and the production sharing system in natural resources: the uranium industry
- Uzbekistan pulls back troops from border with Kyrgyzstan
- Energized reform agenda could spur growth in Central Asia — IMF
- Kyrgyzstan looks to new energy sources
- A terrorism virus spreading from Asia to Western Europe
- Germany gives 54 million euros in grants to Kyrgyzstan
- U.S. companies explore business opportunities in Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan commissions first oil refinery
- New cement plant launched in Tajikistan with Chinese investment
- On Kyrgyzstan’s border dispute with Uzbekistan
- Former Kyrgyz President Akayev’s son-in-law detained in Dubai
- Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in dispute over border area
- Turkmenistan and UNICEF sign new Country Programme Action Plan
- Kyrgyzstan opposition cancels mass protest in country’s south
- Khorgos FEZ attracting Chinese investors
- UNDP completes Kyrgyz-Tajik cross-border infrastructure projects
- Tajikistan should see the crisis as opportunity for reform — ADB
- Authorities probe Kyrgyz opposition’s discussion on ways to overthrow government
- Report analyzes Turkmenistan’s petro-authoritarianism
- U.S. seeks to prepare Tajikistan to increase its economic prosperity — ambassador
- Kazakhstan exported over 12 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 2015
- FAO highlights forests’ role in contributing to Tajikistan’s water, food security
- Nazarbayev’s party wins 82% of votes in Kazakh parliamentary elections
- New World Bank project to support urban development in Kyrgyzstan
- U.S. engages media in Tajikistan to increase awareness of tuberculosis
- USAID helps Kyrgyz homeowners save money on electricity and heating
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of March 21, 2016
- Illegal tenders, bribes and paradox of legislation in Kyrgyzstan
- Terrorism in Central Asia: different names, same outcome
- National action plan on human rights launched in Turkmenistan
- U.S. and Turkmen universities and colleges seek partnership
- US partners with Kyrgyz garment industry to boost exports
- Tashkent hosts Uzbek-Japanese agricultural cooperation forum
- Kazakhstan’s national oil company to maintain production this year
- Turkmenistan, Pakistan to create multi-modal transport system in the region
- Scandinavian countries interested in projects in Kazakhstan’s Aktobe region
- China to invest $200 million in Kazakhstan’s meat industry
- Czech companies to build small hydro power plants in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan’s Kumtor gold mine reports 2015 production results
- Kazakhstan starts exporting cooking oil to China
- Kazakhstan to start refining gold from Iran
- Uzbekistan selling largest chemical and cement plants
- Russia’s Gazprom increases natural gas import from Uzbekistan
- Korea and Japan help Kyrgyzstan tackle with disaster management issues
- ICSID dismisses Turkish company’s claim against Turkmenistan
- Kyrgyz government reports on anti-crisis plan execution
- Skills and Jobs Project launched in Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyz government expects good harvest this year
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan set to increase bilateral trade
- Kazakh garment retailers switching to import substitution
- Iran open to oil production freeze after its oil output reaches 4 million bpd
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of March 14, 2016
- Kyrgyz President speaks on EEU, Constitution, power succession
- Astana to host Central Asia Mining and Exploration Forum
- Organised crime in Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan*
- Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport to improve its services
- Bishkek to host Francophonie week
- Global activists petition World Bank to suspend lending to Uzbek agriculture
- Kazakhstan pegs oil production to global oil price
- UN expert concerned over restrictions on political freedoms in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan’s prime minister prioritizes small hydro power sector
- Kyrgyzstan received $818 million of FDI in 2015
- Japan provides $2.2 million for strengthening Tajik-Afghan border security
- Tajikistan to punish by up to 9 years in jail for ‘illegal’ currency exchange
- Uzbek bank finances aquaculture development in country’s regions
- Kyrgyzstan’s small hydropower sector needs investment
- Oman signs key port deal with Iran, reaching out to trade with Central Asia
- U.S. calls on Taliban to join peace talks with Afghan government
- Women’s Day: It’s now or never to make the world gender equal
- Japan supports Tajikistan agriculture
- Tajikistan to borrow funds to finance priority economic sectors
- Norsk Hydro investigated by Norway parliament over Tajik aluminium plant
- Stratfor: Russia re-evaluates security ties in Central Asia
- Nazarbayev’s visit to McDonald’s restaurant in Astana a message to investors
- First ‘made in Kazakhstan’ food store opens in Astana
- Norway interested in cooperation with Kazakhstan’s Mangistau region
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of March 7, 2016
- Kyrgyzstan developing women entrepreneurship
- Organized crime in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
- Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund softens lending terms
- Building capacity in financial programming and policies in Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan’s Navoi FIEZ attracts new foreign investors
- Japan provides $17.5 million for road maintenance in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan economy hit by Russia recession, China slowdown — Nazarbayev
- Kazakh tenge strengthening as oil prices show stabilization trend
- Kyrgyzstan holds tender for country’s largest coal deposit
- EDB and ADB to invest $3b in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
- World Bank and Tajikistan launch new higher education project
- Uzbekistan to ban incandescent lamps
- Cotton losing its position as main oil-bearing crop in Uzbekistan
- Demand for inexpensive foreign-made cars will be stable in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan seeks market-economy status from EU
- US supporting treatment of tuberculosis in south Kyrgyzstan
- A test for EEU: expansion or consolidation
- India seeks undersea gas pipeline project with Iran
- Central Asia’s largest Jewish center to open near Astana in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan considering paper production from technical hemp
- Kazakhstan and UAE seek to expand investment cooperation
- Stratfor: Chabahar port may expand India’s economic presence in C. Asia
- China to produce glass, cement, agricultural products in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan to produce locomotives for Azerbaijan, looks to Iran
- Kazakhstan and Egypt to cooperate in agriculture, pharmaceuticals and space
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Feb. 29, 2016
- Some companies may stop production in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan consumes more electricity, builds no new generating facilities
- Central Asia and the nuclear proliferation all around
- EBRD local-currency loan supports small agriculture business in Kyrgyzstan
- President orders to increase export of Tajik fruit and vegetables to Russia
- Uzbekistan completes railway line bypassing Tajikistan
- DBK opens first Islamic lease financing in Kazakhstan
- First McDonald’s in Kazakhstan to open in March
- South Kyrgyzstan hosts international agro expo ‘Silk Road 2016’
- Kazakhstan to resume air flights to Egypt in March
- FAO helps improve locust management in Central Asia
- Afghan government may hold direct talks with Taliban in early March
- Kazakhstan government revises economic plans
- Kazakhstan to cut oil production to 74m tons at oil price below $30
- Kazakhstan and Iran to boost railway cooperation
- Iran set to lay basis for non-oil economy
- Uzbekistan ranked above all Central Asia states by military strength
- Foreign investments in Uzbekistan mainly focus on industrial sector
- East Kazakhstan to offer unused agricultural land to investors
- Kazakhstan to export cars to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan
- Kazakhstan looking for new partner for $4.1 billion gas-chemical project
- Kazakhstan to slightly reduce coal and oil production in 2016
- ‘Business on Wheels’ project in the making in Kazakhstan
- Development Bank of Kazakhstan tests currency fluctuation risks
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Feb. 22, 2016
- Kyrgyzstan may withdraw from EEU but has no alternative to it — Deputy PM
- Central Asia between ‘extremists’ and ‘moderates’: fundamentalism on the rise
- Kyrgyzstan: political stability has not translated into better investment climate
- Central Asia: dynasties and power succession in autocratic regimes
- Study shows growing interest in Kyrgyzstan among Turkish tourists
- Tajikistan security: recalling past Civil War under present situation
- China-Kazakh project to build metallurgical plant frozen in south Kazakhstan
- Tajikistan, World Bank sign project to strengthen public finance management
- EBRD co-finances key Center-South highway in Kazakhstan
- FT-EBRD Central Asia Investment Forum focused on reform, investment
- Iranian company to produce safflower oil in northern Kazakhstan
- Development Bank of Kazakhstan to fund alloy plant construction with China
- Digital transformation in Central and South Asia
- Istanbul hosting EBRD-FT Central Asia Investment Forum
- China invests in automobile production in north Kazakhstan
- Foreign investment in Kazakhstan’s economy on the decline
- European Union reaffirms support to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
- World Bank expands project to support rural livelihoods in Tajikistan
- Germany grants 54 million euros for development assistance to Tajikistan
- Kazakh government reviews implementation of anti-crisis measures
- Turkmenistan to amend constitution to extend president’s term
- World Bank helps Tajikistan strengthen country’s climate resilience
- US embassy launches campaign to celebrate 25 years of US-Kazakh relations
- Kazakhstan may open a trade mission in Iran
- Kyrgyz fruit and vegetables will be delivered to Astana supermarkets
- U.S. government launches new health and nutrition program in Tajikistan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Feb. 15, 2016
- Kyrgyzstan’s economy shows growth, people show growing discontent
- ‘Peace’ with the Taliban: an open invitation to sheer terror
- Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund expanding activities
- Kyrgyzstan should give its citizens new opportunities
- European and Central Asia universities are closer thanks to TuCAHEA
- Kyrgyzstan prioritizes agriculture development
- Kazakhstan ratifies EEU free trade agreement with Vietnam
- Nazarbayev proposes deepening EEU economic relations with third countries
- Alstom increases stake in JV producing locomotives in Kazakhstan
- Falling remittances push housing and car prices down in Tajikistan
- First container train from China enters Iran through Turkmenistan
- Iran’s oil industry needs $200 billion in investments
- IMF ready to assist Tajikistan’s economic and reform program
- Kyrgyzstan’s industrial policy and the need to change strategy
- Kazakhstan and Iran set up Business Council
- Kazakhstan’s exports decreasing but still exceed imports
- UN agency supports livestock farmers in Tajikistan
- World Bank survey measures economic slowdown impact on Tajik households
- Kazakhstan and Iran could capture Eurasian market
- Kazakhstan can increase exports to Vietnam
- Over 32 thousand foreigners got work permits in Kazakhstan in 2015
- EBRD supports Turkmen transport company
- Centerra reports ‘important next step’ in advancing Mongolian gold project
- Uzbekistan to start producing potato chips
- Apostille, a new level of public service delivery in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan and Turkey reaffirm close partnership
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Feb. 8, 2016
- Kyrgyzstan to privatize major mobile operator
- Kazakhstan’s National Bank returns to currency market interventions
- FAO recommends transition to conservation agriculture in Central Asia
- EBRD and FT to hold Central Asia Investment Forum in Istanbul
- EU’s enhanced preferences could help attract investors to Kyrgyzstan
- Government, civil society, business addressing corruption risks in Kyrgyzstan
- IMF mission visits Kyrgyzstan
- Kabul seeks India help with Iran-Afghanistan trade corridor
- New remittance rules to penalize money recipients in Tajikistan
- Iran starts gas oil export to Tajikistan
- EBRD marks launch of Tajikistan Climate Resilience Financing Facility
- Iran’s opening-up: southern comfort for Central Asia
- Korea’s LG Chem cancels $4.2 billion project in Kazakhstan
- Chinese investors ready to build oil refinery in Kazakhstan’s Mangistau province
- Some $1.6 billion legalized in capital amnesty campaign in Kazakhstan
- European Union grants additional trade incentives to Kyrgyzstan
- Chinese company to produce fertilizer in Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyz farmers deliver organic valerian root to European market
- IFC survey reveals key constraints to doing business in Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD supports efficient electricity generation in Atyrau in Kazakhstan
- Central Asia regional integration: a lesson from the past. Revisiting Halford Mackinder
- Major gas-chemical plant project reportedly suspended in Uzbekistan
- Turkey the largest importer of Tajik cotton
- Gold production grew 31% in 2015 in Tajikistan
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Feb. 1, 2016
- Regional economic integration is key to development success in Central Asia, Caucasus
- Central Asian labor migrants leaving Russia, Kyrgyz tend to stay
- Analysts speak for rebooting U.S. policy toward Central Asia
- Russian and Chinese investment in Central Asia
- Kyrgyzstan open to Turkish investment
- Kazakhstan’s ruling party holds extraordinary congress
- Cement can become Tajikistan’s major export item
- First container train links China and Iran
- China Bank official on advantages of cooperating with EBRD
- Trade between Uzbekistan and Germany on the decline — ambassador
- Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan among world’s most corrupt — watchdog
- EU releases EUR 15 million of its Macro-Financial Assistance to Kyrgyzstan
- Tajik president appoints daughter as chief of his administration
- World Bank lowers 2016 oil price forecast
- Kyrgyz government aimed at minimizing external risk factors
- Tajikistan’s gold and hard-currency reserves grew in 2015
- Tajikistan to introduce jail terms for ‘illegal’ foreign-currency exchange
- Chinese to produce agricultural products in Kazakhstan for China market
- Italian companies interested in joint investment projects with Kazakhstan
- New U.S. ambassador arrives in Tajikistan
- Iran’s mining sector attracts Chinese, European investors
- Vietnam’s company suspends hydrocarbon prospecting in Uzbekistan
- Finnish investors plan to build a fish farm in North Kazakhstan
- Italian company to build a rapeseed processing plant in North Kazakhstan
- Almaty attracts foreign investors
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Jan. 25, 2016
- Government urges Kyrgyz farmers to grow less beans, more sugar beet
- Kazakhstan’s business climate reforms highlighted at World Economic Forum
- Kazakhstan: crisis demands snap elections
- Kyrgyzstan denounces agreements with Russia on hydropower plants construction
- Tajik lawmakers pass amendments paving way to Rakhmon’s lifelong presidency
- Asian investments in EEU economies steadily growing
- Tajikistan’s GDP grew 6% in 2015 despite negative external factors
- ADB ready to support deeper economic reforms in Tajikistan
- Kazakhstan plans no restrictions for foreign-currency operations
- Uzbeks consider growing fruit in south Kazakhstan for export
- Wal-Mart shows interest in Kazakhstan food products
- Kazakh parliament dissolved, date for early election set for March 20
- Tajiks and Uzbeks leaving Russian labor market
- S. Korea company to produce gas cylinders for motor vehicles in Uzbekistan
- Italian company to invest 100 million euro in Kazakh meat industry
- Central Bank announces currency exchange restrictions in Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan to cut cotton production in favor of other crops
- Japan donates ambulance cars to Bishkek
- Kazakhstan to cut oil production to 77 million tons in 2016
- Kazakhstan remains the world’s largest uranium producer in 2015
- Kumtor mine in Kyrgyzstan produced 16,195 kg of gold in 2015
- Kazakhstan looking to China market
- Government gets full control of Internet, mobile communication in Tajikistan
- EU supported Kyrgyzstan with record amount of €34.6 million in 2015
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Jan. 18, 2016
- Kyrgyzstan introduces compulsory real estate and vehicles insurance
- Tourism in Central Asia: telling it all in figures
- State Mortgage Company starts operating in Kyrgyzstan
- EBRD investment in Central Asia reaches record €1.4 billion in 2015
- China becomes EBRD member
- Organic food can become priority export niche for Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan’s gold and forex reserves almost $11 billion down in 2015
- One-window service for investors opened in Kazakhstan
- EBRD president visits Beijing as China joins the Bank
- Proposed constitutional amendments pave way to power succession in Tajikistan
- SMEs can boost Kyrgyzstan’s economy
- Ukraine to deliver goods to Kazakhstan bypassing Russia
- Kazakhstan lawmakers ask Nazarbayev to dissolve parliament
- Kazakhstan supports domestic car industry
- Kazakhstan’s barite concentrates plant to reach design capacity in 2018
- Bank in Kyrgyzstan gets full banking license
- Banks in Turkmenistan stop dollar sales
- Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund fails to live up to expectations
- Tajikistan early warning: internal pressures, external threats
- Belgium’s Carmeuse Group to build a lime plant in Kazakhstan
- Turkmen government reports economic growth in 2015
- Kyrgyz currency weakens as oil prices push rouble and tenge down
- Kazakhstan in 2015 and into 2016: hopes and headaches*
- Uzbekistan’s GDP to grow 7.5% in 2016 — World Bank
- Tajik hydro power projects may provide irrigation water to neighbors
- Azerbaijan to help improve energy saving in Uzbek oil and gas sector
- ADB approves record $27 billion in 2015 to meet Asia’s development needs
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Jan. 11, 2016
- Unspoilt nature and visa-free regime attract tourists to Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan in 2015 and into 2016: hopes and headaches*
- Central Asia: a different kind of threat
- Kyrgyzstan chooses route for railway to China
- Kazakhstan’s currency reaches new low
- Foreign managers of Uzbek joint stock companies exempted from income tax
- Chinese company starts gold production at Pakrut project in Tajikistan
- Economic growth could resume modestly in Central Asia in 2016 — WB
- China to finance reconstruction of part of strategic road in Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan to develop its hydro power potential
- Kazakhstan approves list of state companies offered for privatization
- Kazakhstan president outlines plan to make ‘Kazakh dream’ come true
- Saudi Arabia to provide $108 million for Tajik road project
- Kyrgyzstan will not experience power outages — PM
- Russia’s Gazprom to increase gas purchases from Uzbekistan
- Inflation exceeded 13% in Kazakhstan in 2015
- Uzbekistan to set up new JV for geological exploration
- President promises economic breakthrough for Uzbekistan
- Russia’s Gazprom terminates gas import from Turkmenistan
- A Patriotic Act will be adopted in Kazakhstan
- Central Asia outlook for 2016: a geopolitical stalemate
- Tajikistan president visits Saudi Arabia
- Tajikistan starts cement export to Afghanistan
- Domestic drugs account for 20% of Kazakhstan’s pharmaceutical market
- Stratfor’s Global Intelligence: Week of Jan. 4, 2016
- Government suggests legalizing gambling business in Kyrgyzstan
- Kyrgyzstan’s largest hydro power plant suffers serious problems
- Kazkommertsbank buys shares of Turkey’s Sekerbank
- EBRD finances public transport in Khujand in Tajikistan
- US and local publishers bring classic American stories to Kyrgyz language
- US embassy shares American culture through film screenings in Turkmenistan
- Kyrgyzstan denounces hydro power project agreement with Russia
- EU provides 5.7 million euro budget support grant to Kyrgyz education sector
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