Both sides announced a new demarcation deal in Fergana last December, but little to no details have emerged until now.

A Central Asian Soviet-era 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.

The states of Central Asia are awash with oil, gas, and precious minerals. Yet in an era of shifting global markets and the ...

Central Asian countries are setting rivalries aside to build a giant hydroelectric plant originally planned in Soviet times, ...

LEORA EISENBERG: Evacuation was huge for the development of music in Soviet Central Asia. My name is Leora Eisenberg. I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Harvard, where I study the development of ...

The Russian grandmaster was famously defeated by American Bobby Fischer in 1972, at the height of the Cold War.

The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades.

Central Asian countries are setting rivalries aside to build a giant hydroelectric plant originally planned in Soviet times, a bid to strengthen energy and food security and mitigate the effects ...

The post-Soviet economic collapse, corruption and regional conflicts put an end to colossal energy projects in Central Asia including Kambar-Ata, which had been planned in 1986. Kyrgyz Energy ...