Soviet flags fly as Kyrgyz Pioneers unite
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The Young Pioneers, a Soviet youth organization, is experiencing an unlikely revival in Kyrgyzstan, a corner of the old Soviet Union.
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On Ukraina television last week, viewers caught images of Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition candidate in this country&#39;s contested presidential election, greeting voters
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Authorities in Uzbekistan have granted amnesties to two prominent rights activists in what could be part of government efforts to mend frosty ties with the West.
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It's been nearly 13 years since the break-up of the former Soviet Union, and many Russians still are getting used to the freedoms which have followed.
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MOSCOW - Rivals for lunar conquest four decades ago, Russia hopes to join the U.S.
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Frontiers in east Europe once  guarded by machineguns and barbed wire in the Cold War fell  away on Friday as nine mostly former communist states joined  the EU's border-free zone amid fireworks, cheers and music.
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In 1991, landlocked Uzbekistan became a sovereign nation after decades of Russian and Soviet influence. Since 1990, Islam Karimov has been the areaâs most notorious politician.
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Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's political party won all of the seats in parliament, preliminary results showed on Monday, after a weekend election the opposition has condemned as fraudulent.
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Aftershocks of Ukraine and Georgia are stirring up rallies in Central Asia.
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RBC, 18.10.2004, Moscow 12:01:27.Russia has officially joined the Central Asian Cooperation Organization. A corresponding document was signed at a summit of the organization held in Dushanbe.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Tajik counterpart raised a Russian flag Sunday at a newly established permanent base for Moscow&#39;s forces in this former Soviet republic, staking Russia&#39;s claim for continued influence in
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Ukraine is marking the 60th anniversary of the country's liberation from Nazi occupation during World War II with a military parade through Kiev.
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- For years, Rakhat Aliyev and his wife, Dariga Nazarbayeva, were the power couple of Kazakhstan, building empires in media, banking and politics under the protective wing of Papa -- President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
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Spiritual leaders are in the capital of Kazakhstan for the Congress of World and Traditional Religions.
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Presidents of four FSU countries, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan which are parties to the so-called Single Economic Space agreement have decided at their Astana summit to set up a space corporation.
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The old Cold War-era eastern bloc has produced a few courageous champions of the people -- Lech Walesa, Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclev Havel among them -- and new Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has the ...
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ConocoPhillipsâs nearly $2 billion strategic investment in Russia may have been marked by an American flag flying over the headquarters of Lukoil, the countryâs second largest oil producer.