Moscow's invasion of Ukraine and Russian perceptions that the Kremlin secured the Kazakh regime during this year's political crisis have led to tensions...

Cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov now holds the record for the longest mission by a Russian at the ISS.

Central Asian countries have seen their grids burdened by a summer drought and by a boom in cryptocurrency mining in the region.

Kazakhstan's descent into chaos has laid bare infighting at the top of a government once dominated by 81-year-old Nursultan Nazarbayev. 

Almaty had been nearly completely offline since the outbreak of the worst unrest in the ex-Soviet republic's independent history.

The energy-rich nation of 19 million people has been rocked by a week of upheaval with nearly 6,000 detained over the unrest.