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As confrontation between Russia and the West intensifies and Russia’s military ambitions grow, developments in the former Soviet Union (FSU) region are increasingly relevant to geopolitics and energy security. Kazakhstan,…

Dr Pravesh Kumar Gupta US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Central Asia on February 28 amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. Blinken met with Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister, Mukhtar Tileuberdi, and President…

After recent events in Afghanistan and Ukraine, Central Asia has become a crucial region for energy and transport. China, helped by its earlier initiatives in the region, is quickly becoming…

The countries have agreed to systematize defense cooperation. Cooperation between China and Tajikistan used to be an almost entirely economic affair. That is changing. According to an agreement published on…

Doha: HH the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani will lead Qatar’s delegation to the sixth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) to…

Astana, Kazakhstan (22/10 – 49). Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday started his first foreign trip since the outbreak of the pandemic with a stop in Kazakhstan ahead of a summit…

As tensions between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan flared, Moscow and Beijing chose to remain on the sidelines. Last month, soldiers from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan exchanged gunfire along several points of the…