Washington needs to do a better job of coordinating its private sector partnerships and investments in the Greater Central ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Central Asian leaders at a summit in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, his second trip to the region in under a year as Beijing competes with Russia for influence there ...

A new “Great Game” is unfolding in the South Caucasus and Central Asia, echoing the nineteenth-century rivalry between ...

China’s Xi Jinping meets Central Asian leaders: Why their summit matters China is the region’s top trading partner, but Russia retains vital influence. And in recent years, the United States ...

While Central Asian governments have maintained formal neutrality, they are anything but insulated. Iran is a central node in the region’s emerging trade and transit architecture.

And while the European Union and China are making big pushes to gain a bigger foothold in the region, Central Asian nations still see Russia as a major player in their economies, making Moscow's ...

After Uzbekistan hosted a summit in April for European Union bigwigs to meet Central Asian presidents, Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, flew in like a jealous lover to castigate the EU ...

In 1993, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan created the Central Asian Union (CAU) to foster deeper economic ties and cooperation as well as to preserve and upgrade the mechanisms that had regulated ...

Kazakhstan, Astana, July 20 / Trend K. Konyrova / It is necessary to launch a Central Asian Union for power engineering. The Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has talked about it a lot, Kyrgyz ...

Under Russia's orbit until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the five Central Asian states have courted interest from major powers including China, the European Union and the United States ...