Kazakhstan is again looking to the potential of a Trans-Caspian pipeline, but do plans to diversify oil export routes just hitch the Kazakh economy further to a doomed fossil fuel industry? Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called diversification of oil export routes, particularly...
British Ambassador delivers a lecture on gender equality to the youth of central Asia in Ashgabat. His Majesty’s Ambassador Ms Lucia Wilde and Ms Jessie Kirk, Social Development Adviser at the FCDO and an expert on gender issues, delivered the interactive lecture ‘Gender in the context of...
Elvira Kudryashova – businesswoman, toy merchant, and professional money launderer – has had a harder life than most of us will ever know. She was forced to flee her native Kazakhstan in 2008 when her stepfather, Viktor Khrapunov, and his partner, Mukhtar Ablyazov...
The countries of Central Asia are in the group of countries with non-free internet, the annual report of the Freedom House on the freedom of the Internet says. According to Freedom House, Kyrgyzstan is still the only country in the region where the Internet is at least partially free...
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev paid an official visit to Kyrgyzstan on May 26. He met with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and focused on strengthening political dialogue, intensifying trade and investments, and discussing joint efforts in the water and energy sector, reports his press...
