Charting China’s rise in Central Asia and implications for the region’s relations with other major global powers.

On a windswept plain near Quva in Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley, a joint team of Chinese and Uzbek archaeologists carefully brushed soil from a set of ancient walls, revealing the outline of a long-forg...

On the armed attack on the Tajikistan border

The monument to the Soviet patriarch will be replaced with a flagpole, authorities in Kyrgyzstan say.

Tajikistan is at the forefront of China’s evolving role in global security. But China is not simply imposing its will on Tajikistan’s authoritarian government; the Tajik side is shaping the relationsh...

The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.

По данным Центральной комиссии по выборам и референдумам (ЦИК), в выборах участвуют шесть из семи зарегистрированных партий, за исключением Социал-демократической партии Таджикистана (СДПТ).

How have Central Asians responded to China’s growing role in their countries? Can Beijing maintain its dominant position in an increasingly hostile region?

One Chinese national was killed and five others, four of them Chinese, were injured in a cross-border attack in Tajikistan's Zarbuzi Gorge, two sources close to a Tajik investigation told RFE/RL's Taj...

How have Central Asians responded to China’s growing role in their countries? Can Beijing maintain its dominant position in an increasingly hostile region?