Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (left) speaks with the winners of a major international AI contest during tech ...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (center) listens to an allied cleric during the Christmas liturgy at Yerevan’s St.

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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a controversial set of amendments into law banning “LGBT propaganda.” ...

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Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev is pushing for the creation of a Turkic trade corridor that connects Central Asia’s resource riches to Western markets. In Aliyev’s view, Turkic states should work in ...

Aliyev offers to host Organization of Turkic States military exercises in 2026.

This essay is part of a series by American diplomats sharing their impressions of the dramatic early years of Central Asia's independence from the Soviet Union. These memoirs were written at the ...