Local authorities in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second city, said Lenin’s removal was for purely aesthetic reasons; they would ...

The European Union remains the largest investor in Central Asia, providing over 40% of direct foreign investments over the past ten years (over €100 billion).

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

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A new study delivers a stark warning that Central Asia has overshot its environmental safety limits concerning land footprint ...

The European Union remains the largest investor in Central Asia, providing over 40% of foreign direct investments over the past ten years (over €100 billion). There are four key priority areas for ...

The leaders of five Central Asian countries were all eager to show the importance of strengthening relations with the European Union but also the importance of their economies and potentials for ...

(Brussels, March 27, 2025) – The European Union should put human rights at the center of its intensifying engagement with Central Asian countries at the inaugural EU-Central Asia summit on April ...

In Osh, Kyrgyzstan, authorities have dismantled a 75-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be the tallest of its kind in Central Asia. Erected in 1975, when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet ...

The upcoming European Union-Central Asia summit, to be held April 3-4 in the Uzbek city of Samarkand, is seen by some European observers as a potential watershed moment that can establish Brussels ...

In 2007, Nazarbayev tabled the idea of a Central Asian Economic Union involving the free movement of goods, services, capital, and people.