RFE/RL
Monday, August 25, 2014 - 06:46
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has told Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili that he supports his country's desire to join NATO. Georgia's aspirations to join the Western alliance are a sore point with Russia.
Monday, August 25, 2014 - 06:43
Kyrgyzstan's State Committee for National Security (UKMK) reportedly has filed a libel lawsuit against an independent journalist in the country's southern region of Osh.
Monday, August 25, 2014 - 06:11
Around 7,000 servicemen from China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are participating in military exercises that Russian and Chinese media say are the largest ever held by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
Friday, August 22, 2014 - 07:50
An Azerbaijani journalist and rights activist has been badly beaten by unknown assailants in the country's Naxcivan exclave.
Friday, August 22, 2014 - 07:46
Uzbek President Islam Karimov's once-powerful daughter has complained in secret recordings about being kept with her daughter under house arrest in Uzbekistan.
Thursday, August 7, 2014 - 06:32
Central Asia's governments have been dreading January 1, 2015, for many months. Many remember the last half of the 1990s, when the Taliban was stretching its rule along Afghanistan's northern border and the problems of the country seeped into Central Asia.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 - 06:59
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging Azerbaijani and Armenian forces to abstain from violence and adhere to their cease-fire agreement after days of deadly skirmishes in the breakaway territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Thursday, July 10, 2014 - 08:32
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on July 10 will brief the Security Council on the escalating Israeli-Palestinian hostilities as the death toll in the conflict continues to rise.