16+ hour, 32+ min ago   (324+ words) timesca.com Afghan Traders in Ashgabat Discuss Proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan Transit Corridor Image: Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) A delegation from the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment was in Turkmenistan in recent days as the two countries explore ways to boost…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (716+ words) Image: TCA, Aleksandr Potolitsyn This year marks 35 years since the Soviet republics embarked on independent political lives following the collapse of the USSR. Yet many of the mechanisms governing the transfer of supreme power, shaped during the Soviet era, continue…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1536+ words) On July 24, Almaty’s Kasteyev Museum of Arts hosted the opening of Gauhar Bisengalieva’s solo exhibition, Matter of Memory. The artist, who works under the name Arukhan, recently returned from Italy, where her solo exhibition, The Spirit of the Steppe, was…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (320+ words) The Times Of Central Asia Kazakhstan Advances Air Taxi Plans After First Passenger Flight Kazakhstan has taken another step toward launching autonomous air taxis after completing the country’s first passenger flight aboard a pilotless electric aircraft. The demonstration flight of…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (250+ words) Image: TCA, Aleksandr Potolitsyn Kazakhstan has begun building an 800-kilometer highway that will give freight moving east and west a shorter road connection to the Caspian ports of Aktau and Kuryk. The government says the project could cut nearly 1,000 kilometers…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (270+ words) A tungsten project first launched more than a decade ago in northern Kazakhstan is targeting commercial production from 2028, as the country draws growing international attention for minerals used in defence and advanced manufacturing. Kazakh company Esil-Mining plans to develop the…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (489+ words) At 5:22 p.m. on July 20, after days of extreme heat, Uzbekistan’s electricity system hit its highest load on record. Air conditioners were running on overdrive across the country as demand reached 14.2 gigawatts. Over the full day, consumers used 301.9 million kWh, almost 11% more…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1055+ words) “The war changed Russia,” Nazirov said. “It became more closed, more militarized, and its political logic increasingly became military. Central Asian countries suddenly found themselves dealing with a Russia that was no longer the same as it had been before…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (343+ words) Kyrgyzstan has established bilateral development funds with Russia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Hungary that are financing manufacturing and energy projects across the country. The Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund (RKDF) is by far the largest. In November 2025, President Sadyr Japarov said it had…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (413+ words) Entries to Russia for work by citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan fell by 15% in the first half of 2026 amid tighter migration rules and higher costs for workers. The Border Service of Russia’s Federal Security Service recorded about 1.9 million work-related…...