The Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) has been given a boost by its role in putting down protests in Kazakhstan. A state of emergency and curfew...
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The 2020 sequel to Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 mockumentary about American culture through the eyes of a fictional Kazakh journalist was just as controversial as the first...
When a plane carrying CSTO forces arrived in Kazakhstan late on January 5, it was the first time that the alliance had deployed forces to intervene in a conflict in a...
Central Europe Bulgaria’s new prime minister redoubled the government’s commitment to adopt the euro in two years in the face of fragile support among voters battered by...
Protests against high LPG prices throughout Kazakhstan have become increasingly political, prompting a violent government crackdown. Russian forces – under the...
Central Europe Donald Tusk, the leader of Poland’s main opposition party, called on Tuesday for the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate surveillance...
Central Europe Bulgaria’s parliament this week formally voted to elect Kiril Petkov (pictured above) as the country’s next prime minister, ending a months-long...
In Uzbekistan, gender-related forms of discrimination remain widespread. However, the country’s rapidly growing private sector is now working alongside the Uzbek...
Central Europe Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, said on Thursday he would call on Germany’s newly appointed Chancellor Olaf Scholz to oppose the...
The Cyrillic alphabet has long been heavily politicised, and a nation’s use of it often leads to incorrect assumptions about its geopolitics. The Cyrillic alphabet is...
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Tajikistan’s economy has seen more Tajiks than ever before selling up and moving elsewhere: predominantly to Russia. The...
Central Europe Slovakia has imposed a strict lockdown, including a curfew, as it is struggling to curb one of the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreaks. The government...