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Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov recent visit to Tajikistan is the latest sign of what's becoming the best bilateral relationship in Central Asia, with energy and transportation the basis...

84% of Americans are unable to locate Ukraine on a world map; those that can't are more likely to support military intervention.

THE school in Ak-Sai, a windy village near the border between the modern republics of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, once served a multi-ethnic community in a...

Hint: Unless you live in Mongolia, your country's probably on this list.

For Radha dinner is served at 7. She crouches down behind a shed, a good distance from her house, then waits. She knows what the menu will be: boiled rice, the same as yesterday and the day before. She knows that it will be her little sister who serves it, throwing the rice onto her plate from a height, the way you would feed a dog.§

It wasn't just people, animals and trees that were affected by radiation exposure at Chernobyl, but also the decomposers: insects, microbes, and fungi.

Tatar leaders, who are opposed to Russia, call to boycott the secession vote but caution against violence.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Tuesday that the Ukrainian crisis resulted from an "unconstitutional coup,"€ and said that any potential use of military force would be "a last resort."

Seventy years ago, in February 1944, nearly half a million Chechen and Ingush people were herded into cattle trucks and forced into exile in remote parts of the Soviet Union. It's estimated that more than a third of them died before they were allowed back 13 years later.

Ukrainians living in the pro-European, western city of Lviv are switching to Russian for one day to show solidarity with their country's predominantly Russian-speaking eastern and southern region...

For the first time, the vast majority of the planets found are smaller than Jupiter, including many Earth-sized planets.

The Lockheed U-2 once kept tabs on the might of the Soviet nuclear arsenal. Richard Hollingham talks to one of the skilled few who flies it.

A hobby archaeologist with a metal detector has discovered a trove of gold and silver in a German forest dating back to late Roman times, fuelling speculation it could be the legendary Nibelung treasure that inspired Richard Wagner's opera cycle.

As the reports continue to trickle in about developments in Ukraine, the grounds of the opulent presidential palace have become the choice destination for Ukrainian protestors and tourists alike.

Goodbye, My Chechnya, is Diana Markosian's project about Muslim girls coming of age in Chechnya.

In Afghanistan, a growing uproar over ethnicity—Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek—has many concerned about possible violence, especially those who remember the country's civil war.