For Putin’s CIS colleagues, extending one’s rule through constitutional amendments is an old trick

How desertification threatens the countries of Central Asia, and how it can be stopped

How Jehovah’s Witnesses in Turkmenistan are being sent to labour camps for conscientious objection to military service

One hundred years ago this year, the Bolsheviks invaded and abolished the Khanate of Khiva and the Emirate of Bukhara. Why were these monarchies doomed to extinction?