Tens of thousands of Kyrgyz are changing their names to sound more Russian in the belief it will make their lives easier.
A Kazakh court has rejected a protest by relatives of a murdered opposition leader against the early release of an organizer of the murder.
China has reportedly freed an ethnic Mongol dissident, Hada, who has spent much of the last two decades behind bars.
Russia's state railway company says it will stop almost all service to Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan for a year starting December 14, citing a lack of demand.
An employee of the Kyrgyz Embassy in Uzbekistan has been detained on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
The director of an Astana-based think tank that advises the president of Kazakhstan has said that blocking access to "radical" websites is both justified and correct because of the threat from groups like Islamic State (IS).
School was in session on November 28 in the northwestern Kazakh village of Berezovka when "almost simultaneously" 19 children between the ages of 10 and 15 and three teachers "lost consciousness." After cases mounted, suspicion fell on a nearby gas-processing complex.
Critics of Francois Hollande are mocking the French president after he posed in a traditional Kazakh furry costume, causing anger in Paris and dealing another blow to the French president's deteriorating public image.
A court in China's northwestern Xinjiang Province has sentenced eight members of the Uyghur community to death on December 8 for two deadly attacks in the region.
Elementary schools in the Kazakh capital, Astana, have been declared closed for two days due to low temperatures and snowstorms.
Dozens of residents of a village in western Kazakhstan have fainted in recent days, in what an environmental activist says may be the effect of a toxic gas leak from a big oil field 5 kilometers away.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has told the French president that sanctions are having little effect on Russia and European countries should seek compromise with Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine.
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