It’s perhaps not surprising that Tajikistan, which shares a poorly guarded, 750-mile border with opium-rich Afghanistan, has become a major global drug...
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Falsely qualified as “pagan” by anti-cultists, the group was born from popular Islam and mediums who claimed to channel Sufi saints. After Allya Ayat...
Raffaello Pantucci is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and author of “Sinostan: China’s...
In its 19th-century heyday, the tsarist empire bestrode central Asia in seven-league boots. In Soviet times, Russia’s footprint on the vast region became even...
Kazakhstan’s oil-pipeline operator sent a request to its Russian counterpart to send Kazakh crude via the Druzhba pipeline to Germany next year. It could be a...
ALMATY – Kazakhstan is preparing to deport a Russian security officer who fled his country because he objected to the invasion of Ukraine and hoped to...
Oil from Russia’s Sakhalin 2 energy project bound for Japan will be excluded from facing a price cap the United States will roll out as part of efforts...