
Recent violence in Zhanaozen in December has forced Kazakhstan's authorities to rethink political, economic, and social policies. Only time will tell if the changes will have their desired effect, but it is the country's population that will make the ultimate judgment.

Twenty years after the Soviet collapse, leaders of the five Central Asian republics have built functioning states but they have yet to fully implement democratic reforms, decentralize and share power, and develop strong intraregional relations.

Twenty years after its independence from the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has made a smooth transition to a middle income country and advanced a foreign policy that could make it a vital bridge between Europe and Asia.

As Kazakhstan celebrates its twentieth anniversary of independence, the country faces a number of tough geopolitical, political, economic, and social challenges.

Legacies of the Soviet era still pervade Kazakhstan, 20 years after independence, and leave most citizens unable to offer a detached judgment of what benefits Kazakhstan might have derived from seven decades of Soviet rule.

Even as the world marked the birth of its seven billionth person last month, a few countries, including Moldova and Armenia, are confronting the problem of insufficient population.

Told in eight parts, Eight Pieces of Empire follows the USSR’s disintegration and its aftermath through two decades of the author’s own reporting from the region.
As a gas-importing country dependent on Russia, Ukraine could strengthen its energy security standing by diversifying its supplies of gas, increasing domestic gas production, and replacing natural gas with other fuels.

The Carnegie Endowment hosted a special taping of the Charlie Rose Show, on the situation twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union.

Asian states are adopting new strategies to preserve their national interests, prompted by the rising power of India and China. These strategies have implications for U.S. interests and leadership in the Asia-Pacific.