In 2025, financing woes resulted in a Russian state-controlled entity, Inter RAO, losing contracts to build three power plants in the Kazakh cities of Kokshetau, Semey and Oskemen. All three contracts ...

Opposition alliance logo. The long-fragmented political opposition to Georgian Dream’s stranglehold on power is making what some observers see as a last-ditch effort to remain r ...

Opinion polling indicates that voters will approve a new constitution for Kazakhstan in a referendum on March 15. The draft that citizens will vote on represents a near total rewrite of the existing ...

The Bloody January turmoil stemmed partly from public alienation from a political system monopolized by Nursultan Nazarbayev, ...

The initiative has garnered little support beyond those competing for the 1.5-million-som ($17,000) prize for the winning anthem, and echoes the government’s controversial move in 2023 to rework the ...

Pakistan’s ongoing military campaign against Afghanistan, initiated by airstrikes in late February 2026 targeting hideouts of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamic State–Khorasan Province ...

Azerbaijan’s close strategic partnership with Israel was widely credited as being instrumental in helping Baku reconquer the Nagorno-Karabakh territory from Armenia in 2020-23. But now those close ...

The Armenian government is reportedly interested in developing professional retraining programs and joint educational initiatives with Microsoft, according to media reports. Meanwhile, Oracle ...

Aliyev’s message to the new Iranian Supreme leader was particularly solicitous. “I hope that together we will make further efforts to develop interstate relations in a spirit of mutual respect and ...