Economic activity across the South Caucasus and Central Asia is projected to stagnate over the next two years, as uncertainty envelops global markets, according to World Bank experts. The bank’s ...

Meanwhile, another Russian soft-power entity in Central Asia, the Sputnik Kazakhstan media outlet, is under official investigation by Kazakh authorities for broadcasting a provocative report that ...

By John Alam of Urus Advisory Historically, it is the ultimate crossroads between Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and ...

According to a World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Development Index 2024, Uzbekistan ranked 78th out of the 119 ...

Kyrgyz security services have detained four people, including an employee of a Russian government agency, on suspicion of recruiting Kyrgyz citizens to fight in the Russian army, officials said on ...

Amman: Five Indians, including three boys and two girls, advanced to the semifinals of the Asian U-15 Boxing Championships ...

Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Zhaparov signed CBDC law giving the country’s central bank permission to launch the “digital som” in the future. With the launch of a state-backed stablecoin ...

Contracts for state-sponsored developments in the Central Asian nation are notoriously opaque, and some have been tied to the ...

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The programme brought together high-ranking officials and counterterrorism experts from Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, ...

In the first quarter of 2025, Central Asian economies posted strong GDP growth across the board, with Kyrgyzstan emerging as the regional frontrunner. According to preliminary figures from ...

ALMATY -- Connectivity is all the rage in Central Asia as the presidents of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan meet on Monday to sign off on a deal to demarcate their borders, allowing the ...