A Lithuanian national has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for spying on Moscow.
Kazakhstan’s national chess team has become third at the classical chess Asia Nations Cup 2016.
Turkmenistan has passed a law making HIV tests mandatory prior to marriage.
The number of adults estimated to be living with diabetes has nearly quadrupled over 35 years: the World Health Organization
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk intends to introduce a ban on oil product imports from Russia.
Japan's Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu accused Denis Ten of Kazakhstan of deliberately colliding with him during practice.
hunters searching for mammoth tusks discovered an Ice Age puppy's snout peeking out from the permafrost.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia's President Vladimir Putin agreed to intensify the drive for a political settlement in Syria but remained divided over Bashar al-Assad's future.
Russia has begun to withdraw military equipment from Syria, the defence ministry said Tuesday.
Now authorities across ex-Soviet Central Asia are facing an unexpected legitimacy test as falling oil prices and Russia's recession.
The path out of oblivion for Przewalski's horse lies in getting on a plane to China, Mongolia and, most recently, the Russian steppes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he had sealed a pact with the country's oil majors to freeze production.
A Ukrainian village renamed a street, which honoured Soviet founder Lenin, after The Beatles' John Lennon.
Syria's brutal five-year war has turned increasingly messy tangle of internal and external players with their own multi-faceted agendas.
Olympic medallist and defending champion Denis Ten withdrew due to injury from the Four Continents figure skating championships in Taipei.
Olympic medallist Denis Ten from Kazakhstan will face tough competition at the Four Continents figure skating championships in Taipei.
Tajikistan is to hold a referendum in May that is expected to let President Emomali Rakhmon stay in office.
Moscow warned Washington that deployment of a US missile defence system to South Korea could spark an arms race in the region.
The head of Kazakhstan's national anti-doping centre has pledged to crack down on drug cheats ahead of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Russia is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, sounding an alarm on the rise in floods and wildfires nationwide.
