The complexities surrounding derussifying names are an example of how past legacies are still felt in the region, affecting even the most basic life decisions.

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

But even as immigration officials have escalated efforts to remove people from the United States, they continue to fall short ...

Years ago, a U.S. consul general in Toronto referred to Canadians as “Georgians of the North”—a sentiment that still holds ...

By Bruce Pannier The Kyrgyz Republic’s “Tulip” or “People’s” Revolution – the 20 anniversary of which falls on March 24 – is ...

The United States and European Union have demonstrated rising interest in Central Asia’s critical minerals in recent months.

Mongolia looks to use its upgraded relationship with Kazakhstan to forge closer ties with Central Asia writ large.

The involvement of an extra-regional great power in a small power’s territorial disputes with China may prove ...

Azerbaijani leaders are still seething over Russia’s refusal to take responsibility for causing the deaths of 38 people in the accidental shoot-down of an Azerbaijani jetliner over Russian territory.