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Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are turning to nuclear power amid ongoing energy shortages. With Rosatom in the mix, how do local and global politics shape Central Asia’s nuclear future? Read ...

Over 10 weeks, RFE/RL hosted discussions on Twitter Spaces on various issues that affect daily life in Central Asia. We looked at global issues -- from the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine ...

Central Asia – which includes the countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – must be a strategic focus of American policy. The region offers a wealth of ...

China's strategic relationship with Central Asia has grown expansively over the past decade, symbolized by both the 1996 founding of the "Shanghai Five," which in June 2001 became the Shanghai ...

Donald Trump’s tariffs salvo means a resurgent dollar is likely to become an even bigger overhang for Asian stocks, as it ...

Beijing has reinforced its position as the dominant economic player in the region, which sits on China’s western border, ...

In 2024, Central Asia enjoyed economic growth and avoided conflicts despite the ongoing war in nearby Ukraine. The year was characterised by frequent meetings of the five presidents in the ...

Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s multilingual capabilities and open-source nature serve as an attractive alternative for users in Southeast Asia, but its true potential can only be realised if ...

The second entry in Asia Society's monthly series "Films to See Before You Die". Four Filipina women navigate friendship and adulthood against a backdrop of martial rule in the late Marilou Diaz-Abaya ...

The Trump administration signals it will likely continue the B5+1 initiative started under the Biden administration to improve trade relations with Central Asia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

The World Bank’s most recent food security update shows that food price inflation rates pushed higher in 2024 in most countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia. But the two countries that had the ...