Bruce Pannier is a Central Asia analyst and appears regularly on the Majlis podcast for RFE/RL.
UNESCO's world-heritage list now includes the ruins of Nisa, the capital of the ancient Parthian Empire, in what is now Turkmenistan.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev (file photo) (official site) June 27, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Kazakhstan will have parliamentary elections in August, and some of the seats to be filled have been slotted for ethnic minorities in the Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, a little-known body that will send 17 of its members to parliament in August elections.
Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court has agreed to reopen a probe into the fatal shooting of protesters five years ago.
Ten years after the end of Tajikistan's bloody civil war, prosperity and development remain elusive.
June 20, 2007 -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has dissolved parliament and announced early elections for August.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev (file photo) (RFE/RL) June 7, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev went on the Internet today to answer several of the more than 5,000 e-mails that people sent him. Though many of the questions dealt with domestic issues, there were some questions about independent media, freedom of speech, and about Nazarbaev's son-in-law, who faces extradition from Austria after being charged with several serious crimes in Kazakhstan.
The arrest of the president's son-in-law raises questions about what he might divulge in a trial and who else could be implicated.
June 5, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates flew to Kyrgyzstan -- the only country in the world to host both U.S. and Russian military bases -- to discuss the continued U.S. use of the Manas Air Base to support operations in Afghanistan.
May 25, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- If you live in Kazakhstan or are just visiting, you won't find much criticism of the government on television and radio or in the newspapers.
Oralgaisha Omarshanova (file photo) (Courtesy Photo) April 20, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- A journalist investigating deadly violence in southeastern Kazakhstan is still missing three weeks after departing from Kazakhstan's commercial capital, Almaty.
An independent Uzbek journalist faces charges stemming from her trip across the border to report on the violent government crackdown in 2005.
Thousands of antigovernment protesters gathered in Bishkek in the eighth day of demonstrations demanding sweeping political changes.
Analysts say Kyrgyzstan has developed a "culture of demonstrations" that is making stability elusive.
More than 10,000 people gathered on Bishkek's central Alatoo Square to demand the resignation of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev.
The first foreign minister for independent Turkmenistan and, more recently, one of that country's most outspoken opposition leaders has died in Oslo.
Ahead of a planned demonstration in Bishkek and other cities, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev has rejected opposition calls to step down.
Two weeks after a pool-hall brawl erupted in deadly violence between ethnic Chechens and mostly ethnic Kazakhs, troops still patrol two villages.
Although many in the opposition are praising the nomination of one of their leaders to be prime minister, others are continuing calls for the president to resign.
More than 150 people have been killed in fighting between Uzbek militants and locals in a lawless tribal area.
A high-level EU delegation in Kazakhstan discussed more than energy cooperation with Central Asian representatives, but to only mixed reactions.
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