Afghanistan is looking to Central Asia to diversify its trade partners as it seeks to reduce its long-established economic dependence on Pakistan, its eastern neighbor.
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Kazakhstan has revoked the citizenship of dozens of naturalized Kazakhs from Afghanistan in recent years. Many of them have effectively become stateless after giving up their Afghan nationalities.
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One week after Central Asian leaders signed billions in strategic new deals in Washington, the Kazakh president is visiting the Kremlin to reaffirm the relationship with Russia.
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Authorities in Romania have arrested a former senator for allegedly attempting to offer a 1 million-euro ($1.16 million) bribe to the country’s defense minister to facilitate an arms deal that could be fraudulently financed by a European Union program.
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Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords, a hallmark achievement of Trump’s first term in office. The move puts Kazakhstan at the center of a new push by the White House to reinvigorate the foreign policy initiative.
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At a summit in Washington between the presidents of five Central Asian countries and US President Donald Trump, officials announced a slew of trade deals cementing US investment in the region. Trump also announced that Kazakhstan had agreed to join the Abraham Accords, a partnership aimed at normalizing ties between Israel and several Muslim-majority countries.
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US President Donald Trump unveiled a slew of trade, diplomatic, and mineral deals at a summit with Central Asia’s five leaders as Kazakhstan announced plans to join the Abraham Accords.
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The presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are set to meet US President Donald Trump on November 6 for talks that are likely to include rare-earth minerals and other resources in the Central Asian nations. RFE/RL's Margot Buff is in Washington D.C.
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US President Donald Trump will host Central Asian leaders in Washington on November 6 for a high-profile summit where the region’s vast deposits of critical and rare earth minerals are set to take center stage.
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Thousands of Central Asians are believed to have joined Russian forces in Ukraine. The Ukrainian state project I Want To Live recently released a list of Central Asian men who have either been killed or gone missing in Ukraine.
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Few noticed when city authorities in the Kazakh capital, Astana, quietly replaced a memorial plaque honoring the victims of the deadly 1930s famine earlier this month. The move highlights a long-standing debate over the famine, one of the darkest chapters in the Central Asian nation’s history.
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A Ukrainian drone attack on a gas plant in Russia's Orenburg, one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world, continues to impact production in neighboring Kazakhstan as the European Union moved to phase out Russian gas imports by end of 2027.
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