Freedom of worship is tenuous around the globe. The Pew Research Center’s latest annual report found “high” or “very high” ...

Economic, political, and environmental trends are accelerating Central Asia’s shift to EVs, and Chinese firms are at the ...

In contrast to India’s well-established bilateral security engagements with Central Asian states, China has been less active ...

The URL has been copied to your clipboard Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of international borders, the countries of Central Asia had pinned their hopes on international tourism to ...

Investment ties among Central Asian countries continue to strengthen. By the end of the first half of 2024, intraregional ...

The World Bank’s most recent food security update shows that food price inflation rates pushed higher in 2024 in most ...

A conversation with Ambassador Matthew Klimow, the former top U.S. diplomat in Turkmenistan, takes a deeper look into a ...

According to the IMF’s AIPI, Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, is making progress in AI adoption but still faces ...

Wildberries currently operates in three of the region's five countries. Kazakhstan, the largest economy in Central Asia, is Wildberries' third-largest market after Russia and Belarus. The company ...

Kyrgyzstan has become the latest country in Muslim-majority Central Asia to ban the Islamic niqab, a long garment that covers the body, hair, and face, except the eyes. Effective February 1 ...

Ten of these are in the Europe and Central Asia region and have joined the European Union. Another 20 in the region have ...