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

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

The Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are exploring the development of nuclear power. Last fall, ...

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

Central Asia is balancing economic ties with Russia, avoiding sanctions fallout, and leveraging Western initiatives while ...

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

Central Asia is cementing itself as a confident middle power region, exerting its independence through strategic partnerships ...

Kazakhstan has persistently exceeded its output quota of 1.468 million barrels per day (bpd) under the production-curbing deal struck by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and ...

As the new administration charts its foreign policy course, a stronger Central Asia-U.S. partnership can serve as a model for ...

ASTANA – The officials of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Uzbekistan discussed the construction of the Kambarata-1 ...

One of the biggest threats to human health, and a major source of air pollution, is regularly hidden in statistical reports as “renewable energy:” the burning of dung, wood, and lump coal.

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 ...