Russia’s annual Victory Day holiday on May 9, when the country marks the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, was expected to be a fairly low-key affair this year. Just three days before ...

Since Moscow's February invasion of Ukraine, Central Asian governments have sought to limit their reliance on Russia and grapple with the economic fallout from economic sanctions that the Kremlin's ...

While President Putin enjoyed a red carpet reception at Beijing last month, Communist Chinese diplomats quietly worked behind the scenes on a rail project designed to undermine Russian influence in ...

China is preparing a grandiose plan for upgrading its relations with Central Asia, which will be presented at the first China-Central Asia summit in May. The region remains critical to China's Belt ...

Every day it becomes more apparent that Putin is losing his prestige and bullying fear-hold on the near abroad. When in a multipolar world one of the poles weakens a geostrategic ripple effect ...

MOSCOW -- Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says it has killed a person from Central Asia who "planned a terrorist attack" in Moscow. The FSB said on July 27 that the man, whose identity was not ...

Russia’s importance as an arms supplier to Asian states is likely to decline in the short term due to export constraints resulting from the Russia–Ukraine conflict. Russia’s need to use more of its ...

Four years since the Ukraine crisis and it is still hard to see the vivid contours of Russian foreign policy towards Asia writ-large and in specific regions. The conventional wisdom comes down to the ...

Two of the United States' key allies in the Asia Pacific, Japan and South Korea, have agreed to host US missile defence systems on their territory. South Korea has installed the Terminal High Altitude ...