Local authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second city, said Lenin’s removal was for purely aesthetic reasons; they would ...

A new study delivers a stark warning that Central Asia has overshot its environmental safety limits concerning land footprint ...

The Famine in Central Asia. Share full article. Dec. 23, 1893. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 23, 1893, Page 5 Buy Reprints.

Central Asia’s worsening water crisis risks regional instability, but also creates a rare opening for the US to engage ...

Five Central Asian nations met at the first regional workshop focused specifically on finding shared solutions to the ...

Despite speculation, Russia’s depleted military, logistical limits, and diplomatic priorities make a Central Asia invasion highly unlikely, especially as the region maintains strategic balance between ...

Central Asia has rarely occupied a prominent place on the U.S. foreign policy agenda, but the region’s dynamism shouldn’t be ...

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.

The Drought Hotspots Around the World report identifies the most severely impacted regions from 2023 to 2025. During this ...

Maryna Shymanska, a 100-year-old resident of Ukraine's Zhytomyr region, spoke with RFE/RL about how her family survived the Holodomor, a Stalin-era famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in ...

Olaf Scholz will make history on September 17 as the first German chancellor to visit Central Asia for a summit with the region’s five heads of state. The summit aims to promote closer ties on ...

ALMATY – Central Asian States have reaffirmed their commitment to eradicate statelessness, adopting the Ashgabat Declaration on Ending Statelessness in Central Asia, published today in Kazakh, Kyrgyz, ...