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The Geopolitics Behind Kazakhstan’s Turbulent Energy Sector
As confrontation between Russia and the West intensifies and Russia’s military ambitions grow, developments in the former Soviet…
Trading firms are making fortunes by delivering Russian oil to India
There are fortunes to be made delivering Russian crude oil to India. Price assessments by Platts, a unit of S&P Global, show…
How Putin Blundered Into Ukraine — Then Doubled Down
At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, received a troubling phone call.…
Number of Tajiks seeking to get Russian citizenship growing fast
Despite the economic hardship that Russia is enduring as a result of its invasion of Ukraine, a growing…
World’s biggest uranium miner seeks extra shipping capacity bypassing Russia
Kazatomprom (KZAP.KZ), the world’s biggest uranium miner, is seeking to boost the capacity of its alternative shipping route which…
The Narcostate
It’s perhaps not surprising that Tajikistan, which shares a poorly guarded, 750-mile border with opium-rich Afghanistan, has become a…
Ata Zholy: Crackdown on a Kazakh Islamic Religious Movement in Russia
Falsely qualified as “pagan” by anti-cultists, the group was born from popular Islam and mediums who claimed to…
Putin held telephone conversation with India’s Prime Minister
Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, Kremlin Spokesman…
PMs of Russia, Uzbekistan discuss economic ties
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin had a telephone conversation with his Uzbek counterpart Abdulla Aripov, Report informs, citing…