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‘Small-Yurt Diplomacy’ Prevails at Kyrgyzstan’s World Nomad Games

This year, as Kyrgyzstan was busy showcasing its culture to the world, foreign countries were competing for the attention of locals.

Oliver Fisk

The opening of the games coincided with Kyrgyzstan's 35th independence anniversary and a major Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit.

The latest gathering of Central Asian leaders, plus Azerbaijan’s president, saw the signing of a declaration, but the “C5” have not quite become...

With Ukrainian drone attacks putting the pinch on Russia’s oil industry, the Central Asian region faces a fuel crisis too.

Hieromonk Iakov Vorontsov, arrested on drug-related charges after attempting to establish a non-Moscow aligned Orthodox church in Kazakhstan, now...