CENTRAL ASIAN GROUP PRAISES ACHIEVEMENTS OF CPC

Song invited parties from Central Asian countries to actively push the Belt and Road Initiative and together build a community of a shared destiny... READ MORE›

TIME TO BOOST LINKS LI TELLS 3 LEADERS

While meeting with Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, Li said China will work with Uzbekistan to advance projects of production capacity cooperation and connectivity... READ MORE›

200 BCM OF GAS PIPED TO CHINA FROM CENTRAL ASIA

The project creates a win-win situation while benefiting over 300 million Chinese, it has also created nearly 10,000 jobs in Central Asia... READ MORE›

EU AND IRAN DEFEND NUCLEAR DEAL, UNDER FIRE FROM TRUMP

The nuclear deal was a major achievement of European and international multilateral diplomacy, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told a conference in Uzbekistan... READ MORE›

IS CENTRAL ASIA A 'HOTBED FOR EXTREMISM'?

As evidence, many cited a string of recent attacks carried out by individuals of Central Asian origin in Istanbul, Saint Petersburg and Stockholm... READ MORE›

WHY UZBEKS BECAME A KEY FIGHTING FORCE FOR IS GROUP

Experts say Central Asians, and Uzbeks in particular, are a prominent fighting force in the militant group's jihad... READ MORE›

A HISTORIC VOTE, BUT IS IT FAIR?

For the first time in the history of Kyrgyzstan, an elected president is due to peacefully hand over power after elections take place on Sunday... READ MORE›

TAJIKISTAN USES INTERPOL RED NOTICE ON MIRZORAHIM KUZOV

His arrest was possible because of a red notice alert issued at Tajikistan's request, a tool which allows Interpol... READ MORE›

700 CHINA-EUROPE FREIGHT TRAINS TO DEPART XINJIANG IN 2017

Freight train X9091 waits for transportation to Almaty of Kazakhstan, in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Oct 19, 2017... READ MORE›

KYRGYZSTAN VOTES FOR NEW PRESIDENT IN HISTORIC ELECTION

Voters in the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan are choosing a new president in an election that is unusual for the region because it is unpredictable... READ MORE›

19 KILLED IN RUSSIA AFTER TRAIN HITS BUS STUCK ON CROSSING

Uzbekistan's Foreign Ministry says 19 citizens of the former Soviet nation were killed when a train slammed into a bus carrying them near Moscow... READ MORE›

BUS CRASH AT RAILWAY CROSSING KILLS 16 IN RUSSIA

Russian media report that the bus engine may have stalled after the driver ignored a red warning signal... READ MORE›

25 YEARS LATER: 7 SHOCKWAVES FROM BREAKUP OF SOVIET UNION

The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... READ MORE›

HOW THE USSR'S EFFORT TO DESTROY ISLAM CREATED A GENERATION OF RADICALS

They did, and by the '70s Islam had made a comeback in much of Central Asia... READ MORE›

WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE MISS THE SOVIET UNION?

Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC BATTALIONS STOCKED WITH CHECHENS AID UKRAINE IN WAR WITH REBELS

In Ukraine, the Dzhokhar Dudayev and Sheikh Mansur units are mostly Chechen, but they include Muslims from other former Soviet areas, such as Uzbeks and Balkars... READ MORE›

CARGO TRAIN ROLLS OUT BETWEEN EAST CHINA, KAZAKHSTAN[1]

A cargo train between Ganzhou, East China's Jiangxi province, and Kazakhstan starts its journey on July 27, 2017... READ MORE›

CARGO TRAIN ROLLS OUT BETWEEN EAST CHINA, KAZAKHSTAN[1]

A cargo train between Ganzhou, East China's Jiangxi province, and Kazakhstan starts its journey on July 27, 2017... READ MORE›

IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.

In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›

PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA BEEFING UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, NATO DENOUNCES 'SABER-RATTLING'

Putin made his comments a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S... READ MORE›

DRUGS MULE MICHAELLA MCCOLLUM RETURNS TO IBIZA AND THE SCENE OF THE CRIME

The move will make the SCO one of the biggest regional organizations, covering about half of the world's population... READ MORE›

TRUMP MAY WANT TO LEARN A THING OR TWO FROM KAZAKHSTAN'S DICTATOR

Kazakhstan leader Nursultan Nazarbayev has put together a state where there was none... READ MORE›

IRAN TROOPS TO JOIN SYRIA WAR, RUSSIA BOMBS GROUP TRAINED BY CIA

At the United Nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference Moscow was targeting Islamic State... READ MORE›

NEWS ANALYSIS IN PUTINS SYRIA INTERVENTION FEAR OF A WEAK GOVERNMENT HAND

That belief is widely shared in Russia, and is one reason for Mr. Putin's genuine popularity at home... READ MORE›

'WE LAUNCH SYRIA AIR STRIKES IN ONE HOUR. STAY OUT OF THE WAY'

Vladimir putin orders airforce into action over syria in first russian war in middle east since end of soviet union... READ MORE›

CLOSE MILITARY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST AT COLD WAR LEVELS

Black Sea encounter On 7 September, the Canadian frigate Toronto was buzzed by a Russian aircraft in the Black Sea with the plane coming within 300 metres... READ MORE›

READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH

Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE›

'DEMOCRACY WAS HIJACKED. IT GOT A BAD NAME'

The town of Sokh, for example, is part of Uzbekistan, but fully surrounded by Kyrgyzstan, and its 20,000 population are almost entirely ethnic Tajiks... READ MORE›

VLADIMIR PUTIN VOWS THAT UNITED STATES 'WILL NEVER SUBJUGATE RUSSIA'

Before his speech on Tuesday, the Russian leader was shown a new military vehicle described as a cross between a car and an armoured personnel carrier... READ MORE›

PUTIN SAYS WEST IS PROVOKING RUSSIA INTO NEW COLD WAR AS SPIES DEPORTED

Photograph Tass Barcroft Vladimir Putin has suggested to a German interviewer that the west is provoking Russia into a new cold war... READ MORE›

CHINA KAZAKHSTAN JOIN HANDS TO BOLSTER COOPERATION

The two sides also agreed to connect China's advantages in both land and maritime transportation with Kazakhstan's need for access to maritime transportation... READ MORE›

ISLAM KARIMOV DIES AT 78 ENDING A LONG RUTHLESS RULE OF UZBEKISTAN

MOSCOW -- Islam Karimov, a ruthless autocrat who ruled Uzbekistan for almost three decades, died on Friday in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent... READ MORE›

RUSSIA COMPLAINS OVER 'GAY BAR' ON PRESIDENT'S PLOT IN FINLAND

The archipelago lies between Finland and Sweden, but one uninhabited property is owned by the Russian presidency, having once been owned by a German-Finnish couple... READ MORE›

'NAZI GOLD TRAIN' FOUND IN POLAND COULD BELONG TO RUSSIA AS COMPENSATION FOR WW2

Nazi 'gold train' Treasure could be claimed by Russia as compensation for Second World War... READ MORE›

WHY RUSSIA IS IN SYRIA

Russian President Vladimir Putin right and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shake hands in Moscow's Kremlin on Dec... READ MORE›

SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV SAYS A NEW UNION COULD RISE AGAIN

Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›

The Aral Sea has been retreating over the last half-century since a massive Soviet irrigation project diverted water from the rivers that fed it into farmland... READ MORE›

RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY LAUNCHES 'LENIN SELFIE' PROJECT

With so many statues scattering the country, Russian youth have been taking pictures of Lenin long before the Communist party launched the hashtag... READ MORE›

US AND POLAND IN TALKS OVER WEAPONS DEPLOYMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE

An alliance summit in Wales last year agreed quick deployments of Nato forces in Poland and the Baltic states... READ MORE›

AFTER A PROMISE TO KEEP IN TOUCH OBAMA AND MODI GET A HOTLINE

It proved to be an important mechanism for the United States and the Soviet Union to clarify their intentions to each other during the Cold War... READ MORE›

CENTRAL ASIA'S DICTATORS FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH TRUMP

In 2012, the Kremlin put pressure on Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambaev that eventually forced the United States to close its air force base in the country... READ MORE›

CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER SHIRTFRONTS VLADIMIR PUTIN INSTEAD

But in three encounters with the Russian president in six days the Australian prime minister largely seems to have missed his chance... READ MORE›