The Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is facing a stress test in Tajikistan. Acknowledging that the security situation along the Afghan-Tajik border remains “difficult,” the ...

Pakistan has approved and operationalized new land routes to connect Central Asian markets to Pakistani ports and beyond, ...

Kazakhstan’s Muftiate, the chief administrative body for Muslims in the Central Asian nation, has issued a religious ruling ...

The June 7 parliamentary election was widely seen as a referendum on Armenia’s future geopolitical orientation: Pashinyan ...

Grappling with a severe shortage, Russia is seeking to purchase a significant volume of gasoline from neighboring Kazakhstan.

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s visit to EU’s headquarters in Brussels has yielded agreements and MoUs potentially ...

The Georgian government’s geopolitical pivot away from the West continues to attract the ire of US legislators. The House of ...

Incumbent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won 49.81 percent of the vote. Although falling short of a ...

On a groundbreaking visit to Kabul on June 21, Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Serik Zhumangarin met with top Afghan officials ...

Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev (right) and his Turkmen counterpart Serdar Berdymukhamedov shake hands after signing a ...

The problem of water scarcity is becoming one of the main challenges for the sustainable development of Central Asia.

In the fall of 2003, the State Department’s European Bureau’s front office asked me to consider placing a bid on the newly established Principal Officer (PO) position for the Astana Embassy Branch ...