List of Central Asia articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China Wins the Olympics That Almost No One Else Wanted
The 2022 Winter Olympics go to Beijing in one of the strangest bid processes in history.
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GettyImages-80477129crop Kazakhstan Can’t Get No Respect
But can it get the 2022 Olympics?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘We Are Not Afraid’
Inside an Uzbek Internet rebellion.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China and Russia Lay Foundation for Massive Economic Cooperation
“Under this arrangement, China would be the bank and Russia would be the big gun.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Fix Afghanistan’s Broken Peace Process
The country's new president has breathed fresh life into talks with the Taliban. But can he broker a deal that his people will get behind?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Send the Bill to the Dictator
What would happen if the billions of dollars stolen by corrupt officials, gangs, and crooked corporations every year could be spent on development instead?
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Street scene from the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. Bloodsport
From cockfighting to buzkashi, Afghanistan’s pastimes are as brutal as the country’s history.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Surreal Images of Hippos and Bears Caught in Devastating Georgian Floods
12 people are dead in flooding that devastated Tbilisi's zoo.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Post-Soviet Azerbaijan, PR Does You
The European Games open today in Azerbaijan, whose authoritarian leader has conceived of the event to boost the country's international profile.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Putin to Central Asia: Let Daddy Save You From the Islamic State
Russia is exploiting fears of the Islamic State to grow its military influence.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nepal’s Renegade Strategy to Save Mothers
The country's bold strategy to fight maternal mortality flouts conventional wisdom and relies on a controversial drug -- and in the wake of the devastating earthquake, it could be more important than ever.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Uzbekistan’s Deadly Decade
Ten years after a massacre that shocked the world, the regime of Islam Karimov is still in power -- and as brutal as ever.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Interactive Map: Follow the Roads, Railways, and Pipelines on China’s New Silk Road
Beijing's multi-billion dollar integration project aims to connect China to Europe with a network of roads, railways, pipelines.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Five Years on, Has Kyrgyzstan’s Democratic Revolution Put Down Roots?
As the revolution marks its five-year anniversary, Kyrgyzstan’s transition toward a democratic system faces its biggest litmus test yet.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Hunted
Uzbekistan’s president has jailed, tortured, and murdered his opponents at home. Now, he’s hiring hit men to track down and kill dissidents abroad.
