Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev has sharply criticized the international mediators of his country’s negotiations with Armenia, saying that the peace process has become “meaningless.”
Since Turkmenistan continues to cling to its claim of having detected no coronavirus cases, the WHO team will have a delicate mission during its 10-day deployment
Kazakhstan's government seriously misjudged the public mood in deciding to hold a huge feast to celebrate, among other things, the ex-president's 80th birthday
Coronavirus infections are on a steep incline in Kyrgyzstan, but that is only part of the picture. More and more people are dying with pneumonia, sometimes in the street
The Kremlin is backing off attempts to control a relatively new class of decentralized technologies impervious to government regulation, helping privacy-conscious Russians subvert surveillance
The Eurasian Economic Union is, first and foremost, an exporter of raw materials. This has left it especially vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic-linked slump in global demand for such goods
Kazakhstan has succumbed to the inevitable and imposed a fresh lockdown to stem a fresh surge of coronavirus cases. Not everybody agrees that these restrictions are enough, however
Putin’s aims with his recent article are abundantly clear: He wants to focus global attention on the Soviet Union’s role in ending World War II, not in starting it.
Armenia’s COVID-19 outbreak is one of the worst in the world, but the government has said it will continue to rely on voluntary self-isolation rather than reimposing a lockdown
The WHO visitors, should they ever arrive in Turkmenistan, will be led on a merry tour of Potemkin facilities, while anybody suffering from even a slight cough will be shuffled away from view
Kazakhstan has seen a massive surge in coronavirus cases since strict lockdowns were lifted in May. The president is now talking about bringing back restrictions
Hundreds defied the warnings of Kyrgyzstan’s authorities today to march through the capital and demand the president veto legislation that would give the government sweeping powers to censor online content
The Azerbaijani authorities have voiced concerns over the country’s ability to deal with the rising number of COVID-19 cases, raising the prospects of a shortage of doctors
Kyrgyzstan's parliament has adopted a law that will allow the government to block or ban websites containing untruths. It remains to be understood who precisely will decide what is truth or fiction, however
Police in Uzbekistan, who have come under sustained criticism over the death of a man who was beaten while in custody, have pledged to install recording equipment in interrogation rooms
As Abkhazia struggles to manage a deepening financial crisis, the territory’s de facto leader has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the apparent hopes of getting some good economic news.
In this op-ed, two top officials at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom say Washington must stop giving Turkmenistan’s dictator a free pass.
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have sent Putin their regrets and will miss the big event in Moscow today. Though they cited coronavirus, they have other reasons
Kyrgyzstan's former president has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for abetting the release of a mobster. More convictions are beckoning for the fallen leader
Turkmenistan is persisting with hyper-secretiveness over its own situation with coronavirus, as evidenced by its chronic efforts to delay a visit from the World Health Organization
Azerbaijan has imposed a two-week quarantine regime and re-introduced electronic permits to control residents’ movement as the country faces a spike in COVID-19 cases
Behind the unexplained recent firings of several of Armenia's most senior officials is a push to put the security services under greater civilian control
Authorities in Tajikistan have in a rare development climbed down in their confrontation with people in the Pamirs. Locals still harbor suspicions the security services are just biding their time
Georgia’s opposition has announced a joint parliamentary slate on the eve of a planned rally to commemorate the one-year anniversary of a notorious crackdown on peaceful demonstrators
The anti-vaccination movement in Kazakhstan has secured a victory by forcing a rethink over legislation that would have made it mandatory for parents to have their children inoculated
The presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia have spoken two days in a row following a violent crackdown on Azerbaijani labor migrants who were protesting their inability to cross the border to return to their home country
Zelensky’s supporters are still hoping to see more of his television character in real life. Part 6 in @kgorchinskaya|s series, A brief history of corruption in Ukraine
Uzbekistan is now grappling with its own episode of severe police brutality culminating in death. It insists it will do better, but activists are doubtful the changes will go deep enough
A woman in Kyrgyzstan who was ritually abused and humiliated by her husband, who insisted on filming the ordeal, has emerged as the latest symbol of a problem the government seems unable to tackle
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