European Union leaders are visiting Turkmenistan to continue the EU's pursuit of natural gas supplies.
The latest "Freedom in The World" report by the U.S.-based rights watchdog Freedom House indicates that authoritarian regimes across a broad geographical range are stepping up their suppression of freedom.
Among the great powers vying for influence in post-Soviet Central Asia, contributor Cholpon Orozobekova says China has been the quietest, most systematic, and most dangerous.
The Turkish city of Istanbul is hosting a summit bringing together leaders from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asian countries.
Most of Turkmenistan is without cell-phone service after officials suspended the license of MTS-Turkmenistan, the country's largest mobile-phone-service provider. There's been no explanation for the suspension, which the Russian company said could last for a month.
Hezb-i Islami, an insurgent force led by former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, was said to have announced its full backing for the so-called TAPI project on December 18 and volunteered to help protect it.
Nepotism became a great danger for Kyrgyzstan, menacing its very integrity. And it's not alone in the region.
An agreement on the Turkmen-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline has been reached after 15 years of negotiations. But the project most overcome a number of obstacles, including financing and a proposed route that would take the pipeline through some of the most hotly contested territory in the world.
The governments of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India have signed an accord for a new transnational pipeline to take Turkmen gas to India.
The "Made in China" label can be found on goods sold worldwide. For Central Asia, most of what is new in the last five years was "Made by China," but that appears to be coming to an end, at least temporarily.
Polls open today for local elections in Turkmenistan, where supporters of the closed Central Asian nation's authoritarian president are expected to win seats.
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