Voters in Kyrgyzstan overwhelmingly backed amending the constitution to shift some presidential powers to the prime minister.
A package of 26 proposed amendments were being...
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Weekly # 690 (December 5-9, 2016) notes that water quality is a serious problem in Central...
The United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) on December 5 hosted the fourth mini-Dublin Group (informal co-ordination group of...
Uzbekistan has decided to cancel or ease visa requirements for 27 countries. Tajikistan is not mentioned among these countries.
Uzbekistan’s news website Uzreport reports that...
EurasiaNet.org reports that Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev has said that Russia needs to leave its air base that it operates in Kyrgyzstan.
Atambayev reportedly made...
Acting Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyayev has won the presidential election with 88.61 percent of the vote.
The official turnout was 87.83 percent, with more than...
Uzbekistan’s Central Election Commission (CEC) says preliminary results from the country’s presidential election will be announced today at 4 p.m. local time.
CEC Chairman Mirza-Ulugbek...
Kyrgyz authorities have reportedly instituted criminal proceedings against leader of the cell of the women’s wing of the extremist religious Hizb ut-Tahrir group in...
Central Asian countries on November 24 adopted the Ganja Declaration on “Enhanced Implementation of SDGs through Cooperation”, at the Governing Council of the United...
Only a week after Kazakhstan celebrated the 23rd anniversary of its national currency by sticking the face of President Nursultan Nazarbayev on banknotes, talk...
