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    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Money laundering
      UK is a ‘leading enabler’ of central Asian kleptocracies, say MPs

      Failure to prosecute money laundering crimes ‘facilitates’ corrupt regimes

      View of City of London, in London, England
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      ArcelorMittal SA
      ArcelorMittal agrees to transfer its Kazakhstan operations to government

      Nationalisation talks follow series of fatal accidents, including coal mine fire on Saturday that killed at least 44

      Officials and rescuers on Sunday inspect the site of the fire at the Kostenko coal mine, near Karaganda, which is believed to have been caused by a methane blast
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      News in-depthUzbekistan
      The legal battles over ‘princess of Uzbekistan’ and her frozen millions

      Civil cases in Switzerland could adjudicate who is entitled to Gulnara Karimova’s $840mn fortune

      Gulnara Karimova
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Paris+ par Art Basel 2023
      Central Asia in the spotlight at Asia Now fair

      Craft, nomadism and spirituality feature prominently in the region’s artistic practices

      Four people holding large circles printed with black and white photos above their faces
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      White collar crime
      ‘Princess of Uzbekistan’ indicted as crime syndicate boss

      Former dictator’s daughter and socialite Gulnara Karimova faces charges over organisation known as ‘the office’

      Gulnara Karimova applauds Russian singer Valeria in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Italian economy
      Italy turns to Kyrgyz shepherds to revive Sardinian farming

      Farming body seeks recruits from 6,000 miles away in fight to help rural economy

      Shepherds on horseback herd sheep along a road in the Suusamyr valley, Kyrgyzstan
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      Tony Barber
      The ABC of alphabet reform in Kazakhstan

      Moving from Cyrillic-based to modified Latin script will distance the central Asian state symbolically from Russia

      A female teacher points to a whiteboard with alphabet characters as pupils look on
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Xi Jinping pushes Central Asian defence co-operation plan

      Chinese president’s offer to help with security comes as Russian influence in the region weakens

      Xi clapping at the China-Central Asia Summit
    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
      Uzbek pavilion lures Venice visitors into the labyrinth

      The country’s contribution to the architecture biennale takes the form of an ancient mazelike fort

      A view of the defensive walls of an ancient fort, showing its complex form
    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      Xi Jinping courts Central Asia as Russian influence weakens

      Chinese president holds two-day summit with leaders of region crucial to security, trade and energy

      Chinese president Xi Jinping exchanges documents with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Chess
      China’s Ding starts badly in world championship match

      Plus: in this week’s puzzle — can you mate in three in 10 minutes?

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Kazakhstan
      Kazakhstan to step up monitoring of goods re-exported to Russia

      Goods crossing the border surged last year as sanctions stymied Moscow’s access to western markets

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      US launches new crackdown on Russian sanctions busting

      Push by three agencies comes amid fears imports flowing from UAE and Turkey are fuelling war in Ukraine

      Dubai
    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      West probes potential sanction dodging as exports to Russia’s neighbours surge

      EU trade with economies including Central Asia and the Caucasus has leapt as their sales to Moscow increased

      A montage of a photo of Vladimir Putin, an arrow pointing up and a map of parts of Europe and Asia
    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Polymetal International PLC
      Polymetal prepares to shift listing from London to Kazakhstan

      Move would allow gold miner to split its Russian and Kazakh businesses

      A Polymetal/Roubles montage
    • Monday, 12 December, 2022
      Chess
      Magnus Carlsen to play world rapid and blitz starting Xmas Day

      Puzzle: can you solve this picturesque mate in two?

    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      Alisher Usmanov
      Uzbekistan lobbies EU to lift sanctions on Alisher Usmanov

      Tashkent backs Uzbek-Russian oligarch in challenging punitive measures imposed after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

      Vladimir Putin and Alisher Usmanov
    • Saturday, 22 October, 2022
      Europe Express
      Russia loses influence over the post-Soviet space Premium content

      As the attack on Ukraine runs into trouble, states from Moldova to Kazakhstan are refusing to follow Moscow’s lead

      Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk ahead of a trilateral meeting of leaders of Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan
    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      News in-depthKazakhstan
      Kazakhstan ‘chips away’ at its reliance on Russia

      Moscow’s regional influence wanes on opposition to Ukraine invasion in central Asia and the Caucasus

      Vladimir Putin, left, with Kazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Thursday
    • Saturday, 1 October, 2022
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Desperate Russians fleeing Putin’s war draft stream into Kazakhstan

      Some 100,000 people and counting have sought refuge in the former Soviet republic to avoid conscription

      A group of young Russians just moments after they made it across the border, after sleeping rough for two nights in a field
    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Kazakhstan and Georgia welcome Russians fleeing conscription

      Humanitarian border policies complicate countries’ relations with Moscow

      Russians walk along a road after passing through customs at the Verkhnii Lars border checkpoint in Georgia
    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Xi Jinping
      Xi Jinping set to make first foreign trip since start of Covid pandemic

      Chinese president expected to travel to central Asia and meet Vladimir Putin this month

      Chinese president Xi Jinping
    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Kazakhstan
      Kazakhstan leader seeks snap elections and cut to presidential term

      Kassym-Jomart Tokayev says move after anti-government protests will lessen risk of ‘power monopolisation’

      Kazakhstan’s president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      Travel
      Postcard from Khiva: weaving magic at the Silk Carpet Workshop

      It’s 20 years since the city’s only maker of the traditional item opened — though thousands of years have gone into its craft

      An artist’s image of a trader with carpets hanging for sale
    • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
      Travel
      Wheels in the wild: a bikepacking trek in Kyrgyzstan

      A week’s cycle adventure takes riders through the remote and spectacular Tian Shan mountains

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