By Carly Brant for Eurasianet In late 2025, Russia launched a new Russian-language television channel in Kyrgyzstan, aiming ...

Underground resistance groups aligned with Ukraine have become a persistent feature of the war.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's central bank has ruled the state violated the rights of minority shareholders in some asset seizures it made in relation to its conflict in Ukraine, sources told Reuters, in ...

Russia has intensified its crackdown on Central Asian migrants, now targeting their children with restrictions on school access and entry into the country. A 10-year-old Kyrgyz girl was banned from ...

Despite this major trend in Central Asia, the pro-Russian, or seemingly pro-Russian, policies of regional leaders may have a ...

The Ukrainian project "I Want To Live" estimates thousands of Central Asians have joined Russian forces, often lured by lucrative job offers or coerced. Poverty, unemployment, and Russian propaganda ...

The pro-Kremlin TV commentator Vladimir Solovyov’s latest remarks framing Central Asia as Russia’s “sphere of interest” and calling the region “our Asia” sparked a strong public response. Vladimir ...

Dec. 12 (UPI) --Russia's Central Bank has filed suit against the Belgian bank that holds about $217 billion in frozen Russian state assets to stop the European Union from using that money to make a ...

Russia's central bank has filed a lawsuit in Moscow seeking 18.2T rubles (over $229B) in damages from Belgium's Euroclear, which holds most of the Russian assets that were frozen by the European Union ...