Once described as the ‘Balkans of central Asia’, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have managed ethnic and territorial tensions with great success.
Articles on Central Asia
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The folk tales of Nasreddin Hoja, which likely originated in 13th-century Turkey, carry many lessons for us today.
This year’s Nowruz, or Iranian new year, will be especially emotionally charged, with war raging in Iran.
Tiny triangular-shaped flints from arrowheads found in Uzbekistan shed light on how the first settlement of ‘Homo sapiens’ – our modern human ancestors – came to Europe.
China is developing closer ties with countries in central Asia.
China is now the top trading partner for four of the five ex-Soviet Central Asian states. Russia, however, is desperate to reassert its dominance in the region.
Forum 18, a site based in Norway, is one of the few media outlets specializing in coverage of religious freedom.
Kazakhstan’s abrupt currency devaluation in 2015 hit the poor hardest.
Khorasan is globally associated with terrorism, but people from Afghanistan are out to challenge that assumption.
Russia has been rounding up central Asian migrant workers and sending them home.
Georgia seems to be particularly prone to activism, distinguishing it from its neighbours in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
A hidden history of connection and commerce between Britain, Afghanistan, and central Asia serves as a reminder of the possibility of inter-religious co-existence in even the most fraught of times.
The Central Asian nation has long figured among the ‘worst of the worst’ in regards to political and human rights. A new report shines light on cases of activists being seized and then going missing.
Recent laws and pro-Putin sentiment by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov have sparked concern that the Central Asian country is backsliding on democracy.
Desert dust storms are increasingly picking up materials like sewage, herbicides and other human-made waste and transporting them on tiny particles that are easy to inhale.
Could Pakistan become a Singapore of the 21st century?
Two years on from taking control of Afghanistan the Taliban continues to rule through fear and threatens the stability of the whole region.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
A rapid shift in the balance of power between Moscow and Beijing is becoming apparent as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meets in Central Asia.
A former US ambassador to Kazakhstan explains the strategic and economic importance of Kazakhstan to the US.
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