The cult of personality built by Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan’s paramount leader, is already well documented. He ...

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Two Russian ships docked at Syria’s main Mediterranean port last week, in what appears to be part of a large-scale withdrawal ...

A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

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The Trump administration is expected to continue a Biden-era initiative to improve trade relations with Central Asia, ...

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...