China's economic influence in Central Asia and the Caucasus is expanding, with increased trade turnover and a growing trade ...

China's strategic relationship with Central Asia has grown expansively over the past decade, symbolized by both the 1996 founding of the "Shanghai Five," which in June 2001 became the Shanghai ...

Once the world's fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea has shrunk due to Soviet-era irrigation, sparking crises as Uzbekistan fights desertification ...

Local patronage networks that provide economic and social resources for cities and villages are found across Central Asia.

The EU Civil Society Facility for Central Asia works to enhance the capacity of civil society organizations, enabling them to ...

The European Union, which is strengthening political and economic cooperation with the governments of Central Asia, hopes to ...

By Eurasianet Top Trump Administration officials have set countering China’s growing global influence as a top foreign policy ...

By Bruce Pannier When the Taliban took control of most of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, the governments of the Central Asian ...

A conversation with Ambassador Matthew Klimow, the former top U.S. diplomat in Turkmenistan, takes a deeper look into a ...

Over 10 weeks, RFE/RL hosted discussions on Twitter Spaces on various issues that affect daily life in Central Asia. We looked at global issues -- from the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine ...

ASTANA – The Astana Hub, Kazakhstan’s international technology park, was awarded the Top Startup Ecosystem in Central Asia by ...

Ten of these are in the Europe and Central Asia region and have joined the European Union. Another 20 in the region have ...