Treasure in troubled land

International aid has supported the economy of Afghanistan for 12 years. With aid flow gradually declining, the war-torn country will now have to …

CITES CoP 2019: Critically endangered saiga antelope not to get highest protection

Instead of being placed in Appendix I of CITES, a voluntary moratorium by saiga range states not to export the antelope’s horn has now been …

Most Central Asian countries have broken food safety control systems, finds paper

Severe food safety challenges in CAREC member countries; overlaps in mandates and institutional conflicts in China

Say it in Kazakh

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Spelling test for president

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Toxic flights

Nomadic sophistication

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UPDATE: Food crunch

Terrible magnate

Russia gambles on gas prices

Caution over cleanup of Nura river

Russia-Kazakhstan floods: Is climate change warming the Ural Mountains and western Siberia?

Reserach papers note that the Urals are indeed warming; as is Kazakhstan, a former Soviet Republic and among the largest countries globally by area