Uzbekistan is fast evolving as a gig economy, as over one-quarter of the working-age population is now classified as self-employed, according to the State Taxation Committee.

Russia appears to be falling back on a good-cop, bad-cop strategy as it confronts a rupture in relations with Azerbaijan. But Baku is not buying any of the recent bluster coming out of Moscow and has ...

The shrill nature of Georgian Dream’s response suggests that the EU has struck a sensitive spot with its ultimatum. The loss ...

A series of laws adopted by Azerbaijan’s rubber-stamp parliament in the spring is paving the way for tariff reform in the ...

A district court in Samsun, on Turkey’s north coast, cleared activists Alisher Sakhatov and Abdulla Orusov for deportation ...

A district court in Bishkek ordered the closure July 9 of April TV – a Russian-language outlet that broadcast on YouTube and ...

The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s international assistance agency, has an ambitious plan for the Kremlin soft-power entity to fill development gaps created by the dismantling of the US Agency ...

Since Shavkat Mirziyoyev assumed the presidency in 2016, Uzbekistan has averaged 5.7 percent GDP growth annually, while achieving year-on-year employment growth of about 3.6 percent, the IMF states in ...

Citizens of the Central Asian state seeking to visit the United States will no longer be able to obtain multi-entry visas, only single-entry. In addition, non-immigrant visas issued to Kyrgyz citizens ...

News and analysis from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan ...

Bags full of cash, armored cars, and an overbearing defense secretary: The former U.S. ambassador to Tajikistan recalls the frenetic days after 9/11, when Washington suddenly discovered the country.

Efforts by Central Asian states to engage with Afghanistan are getting a boost from the United Nations. A recently adopted UN ...