With vast investments at stake, Chinese private security firms are expanding operations in Kyrgyzstan and beyond.

On June 9, Kazakhstan will elect its first non-Nazarbayev president.

Kazakhstan’s first president resigned, but he remains fundamentally intertwined with the state.

The entire region is headed for an immense climate crisis by 2100, scientists warn.

In Poland, asylum seekers from Tajikistan wrestle with insecurity and uncertainty.

In 1990, Bruce Pannier first went to Central Asia -- what was it like and what’s changed since then?

Not quite, but the denouement has surely begun.

With the arrest of Serikzhan Bilash, a movement that gave the world a view into the Xinjiang crisis has an uncertain future.

Mapping newly created, resurrected, and proposed transport routes across Central Asia provides insight into regional connectivity drives.

Nurbots fill comment sections across the Kazakh internet. They may not be convincing but they pollute online discourse.

A discussion of Soviet policy, a devastating famine, and the making of Kazakhstan.

Plans to build a ski resort on a national park in Kazakhstan have been met with local resistance.

Turkmen activist-in-exile Fareed Tukhbatullin explains the “deplorable” economic reality in his home country.

U.S. coercive pressure on Iran works against Uzbekistan’s regional interests and the stability of Afghanistan.

Running across China, Kazakhstan, and Russia, the Irtysh carries with it a host of difficulties from floods to pollution.

At 78, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is the region's oldest leader. Naturally, speculation abounds about a successor.