Mansur Mirovalev

Pres­sure on com­mu­ni­ties comes as re­gion­al elites and big com­pa­nies look to de­vel­op re­source-rich In­dige­nous lands.

Dis­missed by some as pro­pa­gan­da ‘non­sense’, Moscow’s warn­ing evokes mem­o­ries of the Cuban mis­sile cri­sis.

Kaza­khs from Al­maty to the rur­al re­gions are in shock af­ter rare and bloody protests rocked the na­tion of 19 mil­lion.

Trib­al iden­ti­ties still af­fect the pub­lic and po­lit­i­cal life of the trou­bled Cen­tral Asian na­tion.

Rare and vi­o­lent protests in the for­mer So­vi­et na­tion are be­ing watched close­ly in Moscow and across Cen­tral Asia.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­cent poll, al­most half of Ukraini­ans be­lieve that an ‘es­ca­la­tion’ of the con­flict is pos­si­ble.

Hos­til­i­ties have sim­mered for years but ten­sions are now es­ca­lat­ing amid fears of a Russ­ian in­va­sion.

Ex­perts are di­vid­ed on whether Moscow is plan­ning an im­mi­nent in­cur­sion, or mere­ly pos­tur­ing to win geopo­lit­i­cal sway.

A brief his­to­ry of the coun­try’s first and only pres­i­dent ac­cused of mas­ter­mind­ing a new mi­gra­tion cri­sis.

In East­ern Ukraine, one small town is fight­ing for sur­vival in the shad­ow of Eu­rope’s blood­i­est armed con­flict.