What is a dissident? In an autocracy, standing against the rulers could mean harassment, prison, torture, even death.

The flow of goods in Manzhouli, China’s main border crossing with Russia, underscores increasingly close ties between the two ...

The 2022 invasion came as a shock to many of Russia’s neighbors in eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia, ...

In recent years, the geopolitical map of Eurasia has witnessed a subtle yet meaningful transformation, as the Gulf ...

Trump received mostly negative ratings in a survey of 24 nations but few people had confidence in either Trump or Xi to do ...

Mr Putin’s war against Ukraine inadvertently led to an end to the hitherto intractable conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which is now struggling to break free of Russia’s grip and make peace ...

Russia and China would be the first nuclear powers to sign a treaty barring use of the weapons in Southeast Asia.

So a symbiotic relationship between Russia and Central Asia looks likely to endure. Lenin may no longer loom large over Kyrgyzstan, but Russia will loom large over Central Asia for quite a while yet.

Foreign intelligence agencies increasingly use migrants from Central Asia in Russia to engage in sabotage and terrorist activities, Deputy Secretary of Russia’s Security Council Yury Kokov has said.

In a remote town in southern Kyrgyzstan, teacher Nur Akhmatov watched workers building a library, conference hall and women's sports centre -- construction mostly funded by Kyrgyz emigrants ...

In a remote town in southern Kyrgyzstan, teacher Nur Akhmatov watched workers building a library, conference hall and women's sports centre -- ...