Hundreds of people have been evacuated in the Eastern Kazakhstan region after melting snow caused severe flooding.
This latest session of the Majlis explored the ties Iran and Arabic countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have with the five Central Asian states.
A senior U.S. diplomat is due to arrive in Uzbekistan on March 25 for a three-day visit for talks with Uzbek leaders and to attend an international peace conference on Afghanistan.
Police in Kazakhstan's capital hunted for people holding blue balloons during Norouz new year celebrations on March 22, following fugitive opposition politician Mukhtar Ablyazov's Facebook call for Kazakhs to express support for his banned movement by displaying blue balloons.
President Nursultan Nazarbaev can take some credit for guiding his country through often complicated regional relations for nearly three decades. But things are now in flux, and the Kazakh leader is in his twilight years. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.)
Ten women from countries including Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, and Kosovo were honored with the U.S. State Department's International Women of Courage Award (IWOC) for 2018.
In a very rare move, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has marked the Norouz new year holiday in the ancient city of Samarkand in neighboring Uzbekistan, a sign of improving ties following the death of divisive Uzbek leader Islam Karimov in 2016.
A Russian cosmonaut, two U.S. astronauts, and a soccer ball set to be used in the soccer World Cup in Russia have blasted off for a two-day flight to the International Space Station (ISS).
On March 15, the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and the speaker of Turkmenistan’s parliament gathered in Astana for the first Central Asian summit since 1999. The latest Majlis podcast looks into what it all might mean.
Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry has rejected a Russian proposal to revisit its visa-free regime for U.S. citizens.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev held talks with the son of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov ahead of a Central Asian summit in Astana, Nazarbaev's office said a day after the meeting.
A jailed Kazakh businessman, Muratkhan Toqmadi, has been sentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison in a high-profile and politically charged murder case.
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