Central Asia

Like clockwork: After Temirov released a new investigative report last week, the authorities piled on new charges.

Kazakhstan is, indeed, looking at Ukraine carefully and thinking seriously. 

Kazakhstan stands to benefit as Russian companies look to move out of Russia in order to trade globally again.

Russian banks operating in Kazakhstan were thriving before the war. Now CenterCredit has bought Alfa-Bank’s assets in Kazakhstan.

In recent interviews both U.S. officials and the Kyrgyz president have suggested that Bishkek and Washington may be nearing the signing of a new Bilateral Cooperation Agreement.

While Kazakhstan has the potential to be an influential player in the global grain economy, it needs to first overcome domestic and logistic challenges.

Regional integration is often touted as a logical solution to problems like food insecurity, but it won’t necessarily solve a region-wide problem.

An interview with Raffaello Pantucci about China’s rise, as seen through Beijing’s engagements in Central Asia.

If the necessary policies are implemented, the goal of carbon neutrality by 2060 is ambitious, but achievable.

Less than half of Central Asians labor migrants are ready to return to their home countries a month after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project seems to have far more going against it than pushing in its favor.

After recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic shockwave, Kazakhstan will see its growth prospects take a hit due to reverberations from the war in Ukraine.