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Soviet architecture vanishes as Central Asia drifts from Moscow

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan – On the facade of an apartment block in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe, a giant mosaic depicting cosmonauts and engineers celebrates the scientific...

Kyrgyz leader consolidates power in rocky Kyrgyzstan

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan—Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov has spent months sidelining opponents, removing his key ally and cementing his grip on power in the historically volatile...

Lunar Year of the Horse

Horses offer ecosystem lessons Conclusion The UN Environment Program (UNEP) supports projects that reintroduce wild horses to these fragile ecosystems. One of them is the Altyn...

Food body bares progress in zero hunger objectives

BUDAPEST, Hungary—With less than seven years left until the deadline, Europe and Central Asia are making progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)...

Toxic storms blamed on climate change cloud Tajikistan

The air was dry and warm and the skies over Dushanbe were grey without a hint of sun during another recent toxic sand storm...

‘C. Asia must unleash potential’

Xi Jinping called on China and Central Asia to "fully unleash" their potential in trade, economic and infrastructure cooperation Friday, as he wrapped up...

China courts Central Asia as Russia’s influence wanes

BEIJING—China is renewing its push for massive infrastructure projects in Central Asia as Beijing aims to fill the vacuum left in former Soviet states...

Blinken eyes US inroads in C. Asia

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to Central Asia hoping that greater US engagement will reassure former Soviet republics rattled by the...

Pope heads to Kazakhstan on Central Asia peace drive

Pope Francis, warned by doctors not to travel to Ukraine in the immediate future, will Tuesday bear a message of peace instead to a...

Turkey, Iran summon ambassadors in Iraq row

Turkey and Iran summoned each other's ambassadors on Sunday, Turkish and Iranian state media reported, escalating a rumbling row over Turkey's presence in Iraq. Iran...

Covid seen spurring hate speech against LGBTI in Europe

Hate speech against LGTBI people in Europe and Central Asia has spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, a group defending their rights said on Tuesday. Verbal...

World Bank: Developing economies suffer remittance drop from migrants

Washington—Developing countries are suffering a drop a key source of revenue as the coronavirus pandemic causes worldwide shutdowns, reducing payments from workers living abroad,...

Twenty years on, Kazakhs struggle to warm to chilly new capital

For Dina, a hairless Sphynx living in a newly opened cat café in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, this winter was a difficult one to bear. Temperatures...
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