The success or failure of Saudi Arabia’s reform campaign will have huge ramifications for China.

Russian policy based on its misreading of the West, and especially on its misunderstanding of its own neighbors, can only frustrate.

An escalating diplomatic and trade dispute between Kazakhstan and its smaller central Asian neighbour Kyrgyzstan is hurting companies as far away as London, and pressure is growing on Russia to step in and reconcile its allies.

For close to a year, the U.S.-Russian focus has centered around whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in an effort to undermine Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

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People walk by an election poster of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Almaty on April 2, 2011.

Kazakh state prosecutors said on Wednesday they will re-investigate the 2004 death of a prominent banker after the man convicted of accidentally killing him said he had in fact been hired to do so by Mukhtar Ablyazov, a former oligarch turned opponent of President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Call from shadow chancellor John McDonnell comes amid continuing fallout from the Gupta scandal in South Africa

In 1997 the Kazakh president launched a plan to protect his new capital from the icy winds of the featureless steppes with a ring of trees. Twenty years on, his scientists are still struggling to grow forests in a spot where no trees stood