A new book explores the legacy of an often-overlooked architectural style born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital.

Alexander Anufriev, a nonconformist artist from the Soviet Union who, after surviving a devastating earthquake in his 20s, spent decades making expressive, brightly colored paintings of a single ...

An economic bloc that includes several ex-Soviet nations along with Afghanistan ... Members of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), who met in Uzbekistan's capital of Tashkent, discussed plans ...

Russian nationalist and former separatist commander Igor Girkin, also known by his alias Strelkov, has lost his appeal against a four-year prison sentence he was handed for calling for "extremist ...

In recent days, Tashkent too celebrated its parliamentary elections, equally dividing the votes between the 42.7% of ...

An expert on the former Soviet region, Swerdlow teaches international human rights ... Kyrgyzstan, Webster University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, the Kyiv School of Economics, and the University of San ...

A court in Uzbekistan's Ferghana Province has sentenced 51-year-old Alisher Xoliqov to five years in prison for mercenary activities with the Russian armed forces in a landmark case highlighting the ...

Kazakhstan once harbored grand plans for a high-speed rail network. While its neighbors have pushed ahead with such projects, ...

Worried about energy shortages and environmental concerns, Central Asian nations like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan ...

Commonwealth of Independent States, also known as the CIS, was formed in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and is ...

A place of remembrance in the centre of Berlin: the Soviet War Memorial on Straße des 17. Juni commemorates the fallen soldiers. The Brandenburg Gate is top of everyone’s list of sights to see in ...

has received a Fulbright Teaching/Research grant from the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to teach academic legal writing and conduct a case study of publication practices at Tashkent State ...