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.
A session of the Council of Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is due to be held in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on May 30.
Kyrgyzstan's economy minister says Russia will allocate $1.2 billion to help Bishkek join a Moscow-led Customs Union.
The presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus promise the Eurasian Economic Union will not effect the sovereignty of its member states. (Reuters)
A Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man crew has docked successfully at the International Space Station (ISS) after a flawless launch.
Police in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, have detained dozens of activists protesting Kazakhstan's entry into the Eurasian Economic Union (EES).
The leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus have signed a treaty in Astana on the creation of a Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union.
Using a combination of subsidies and coercion, Moscow is solidifying its Eurasian integration dream, making it both deeper and broader. But some prosepctive members are having doubts.
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