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Sydney Millar on the upcoming snap presidential elections in Kazakhstan on 20 November.

Sydney Millar on the recent exodus of Russian men to the Central Asian states as Vladimir Putin has announced partial mobilization for the war in Ukraine.

Sydney Millar writes about the increasingly tense relationship between the Kazakh and Russian leadership as the war in Ukraine rages on.

In this month's Central Asia editorial, Sydney Millar takes a closer look at the economic development in the Central Asian region since the war outbreak in Ukraine.

Did the Uzbek government just strip the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan of its constitutional right to independence?

The recent break out of violence in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) has shown that Tajik officials seem to believe that they will be able to strong-arm residents into [...]

In April the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed that it had fired ten rockets at a military base near the Afghan-Uzbek border. With violence ramping up, keeping tabs on the ISKP is [...]

On March 12, Turkmenistan established the first modern dynasty in Central Asia by electing the son of the former president, Serdar Berdymukhamedov. Despite the many promises Berdymukhamedov made [...]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month has put the leaders of the five Central Asian countries in an uncomfortable position. With more sanctions imposed on Russia by the West, the economic and [...]

As mass protests against the regime broke out in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the year, the first month of 2022 will go down in history as Bloody January. Is this the end of the Nazarbayev era?