Paul the Octopus surprised the world with a string of accurate predictions in the FIFA World Cup in 2010. And for this year's soccer World Cup in Brazil this year, the clairvoyant animal craze continues with Psychic Saiga, an antelope from Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan says it plans to drop visa requirements for visitors from 10 countries for a one-year test period.
In a new report, Freedom House says Russia is playing a "pivotal role" in a continuing decline in democracy among the countries of the post-Soviet sphere.
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Kazakhstan have urged President Nursultan Nazarbaev to veto the country's new Criminal Code and related legislation.
Dozens of people have gathered near a penal colony in the town of Arshaly, near the Kazakh capital, Astana, to demand that they be allowed to see incarcerated relatives who may have maimed themselves.
A blind teenager loves video games -- and wants all visually impaired children in Kazakhstan to get in on the action.
Several men who identified themselves as financial police officers have searched the offices of the Almaty-based independent 16/12 video news website.
Rakhat Aliev, once the husband of the eldest daughter of Kazakhstan's president, has been arrested in Austria.
Officials from the Russian Orthodox Church say they plan to start mass printing the Bible in the Uzbek language for the benefit of labor migrants.
Noted Kazakh human rights defender Vadim Kuramshin is on a hunger strike in the penal colony in northern Kazakhstan where he is incarcerated.
The third line of the Central Asia-China natural gas pipeline, Line C, has started functioning.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) has been a threat looming over Central Asia for 15 years, since militants burst into southern Kyrgyzstan. Much has happened since then, and now the bulk of the militants are in Pakistan's tribal areas and, increasingly, in northern Afghanistan, just across the border from Central Asia.
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