In 2025, financing woes resulted in a Russian state-controlled entity, Inter RAO, losing contracts to build three power plants in the Kazakh cities of Kokshetau, Semey and Oskemen. All three contracts ...

Opposition alliance logo. The long-fragmented political opposition to Georgian Dream’s stranglehold on power is making what some observers see as a last-ditch effort to remain r ...

The Bloody January turmoil stemmed partly from public alienation from a political system monopolized by Nursultan Nazarbayev, ...

Opinion polling indicates that voters will approve a new constitution for Kazakhstan in a referendum on March 15. The draft that citizens will vote on represents a near total rewrite of the existing ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan are on edge, worried that TRIPP potentially could be upended by the US-Israeli attack on Iran. Hoping to shield against any spillover, Yerevan and Baku are staking out cautious ...

The initiative has garnered little support beyond those competing for the 1.5-million-som ($17,000) prize for the winning anthem, and echoes the government’s controversial move in 2023 to rework the ...

A recent Tajik government report on living standards indicates that many households are hovering on the edge of the poverty ...

Pakistan’s ongoing military campaign against Afghanistan, initiated by airstrikes in late February 2026 targeting hideouts of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamic State–Khorasan Province ...

In response to the ongoing warfare in the Persian Gulf precipitated by the US-Israeli attack on Iran, Chinese companies are ...

Taliban militants patrol the streets of Kabul. The recent ISKP attack in the Afghan capital laid bare Taliban’s limited capacity to provide security and added to the uncertainty surrounding ...

Azerbaijan’s close strategic partnership with Israel was widely credited as being instrumental in helping Baku reconquer the Nagorno-Karabakh territory from Armenia in 2020-23. But now those close ...

The drone strikes in Nakhchivan have exposed limits to Aliyev’s approach, as Iran’s defensive strategy appears to be to spread destruction and economic disruption as far and wide as possible with its ...