ASHGABAT (TCA) — On January 3, the U.S. Embassy in Ashgabat will kick off its annual Winter Film Screenings, bringing the best of American cinema

BISHKEK (TCA) — Politically and economically, Central Asia will largely depend on Russia’s and China’s recovery and any prediction for 2016 can

ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan's state natural-gas company Turkmengas on January 4 said that Russia’s Gazprom Export, the export arm of Russian

TASHKENT (TCA) — Russian gas giant Gazprom in 2016 will increase natural gas purchases from Uzbekistan, Russia’s ...

BISHKEK (TCA) — Here below is an analysis by ...

ASHGABAT (TCA) — Production in Turkmenistan grew 4.8 percent in 2015 as compared with the previous year, with high performance indicators

ASHGABAT (TCA) — Authorities in Turkmenistan have restricted the use of hard currencies in the country. Banks in Turkmenistan have stopped

BISHKEK (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invested a record amount in the Central Asian region in 2015. Last

ASHGABAT (TCA) — On January 12 the Central Bank of Turkmenistan published on its website a press release on introducing restrictions on free

BISHKEK (TCA) — In its 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released on January 27, Transparency International ranked 168 countries based on

BISHKEK (TCA) — “Major geopolitical shifts and internal dynamics are setting the stage for possible increased great-power competition in Central

LONDON (TCA) — Amidst the wildest speculations that predominantly Shiite Iran might emerge as a powerful buffer to keep Sunnite extremism at bay

ASHGABAT (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is boosting its support for private sector development in

ASHGABAT (TCA) — The first regular container train running from China through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Iran on February 10 entered Iran

ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmen state media are reporting that a "public discussion" of constitutional amendments aimed at extending the President's

LONDON (TCA) — May 22 is the date set for the final nod by the people of Tajikistan through a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the

OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — A growing number of commentators and other observers, both in the west and in the former USSR, are casting doubt on the

BISHKEK (TCA) — A Kazakh delegation headed by East Kazakhstan province Governor Danial Akhmetov last week visited Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to

BISHKEK (TCA) — The Global Firepower Military Ranks-2016,