The Moscow Times

Six people have been convicted for taking part in deadly labor riots in Kazakhstan that were seen as a major challenge to the authority of President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Authorities in Tajikistan, an impoverished Central Asian nation ruled by strongman Emomali Rakhmon, have decided not to distribute a new Hollywood comedy about a fictional dictator stranded in New York.

The World Bank assessed the transportation and logistics capacity of the world's countries and ranked Russia 95th out of 155.

A Russian Soyuz craft carrying three astronauts has docked with the International Space Station, putting the crew in place for the imminent arrival of the first-ever privately owned cargo ship to the orbiting lab.

Investigators on Wednesday were analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from the Superjet, which slammed into the side of an Indonesian volcano. They hope the final words of the two pilots will help explain what caused last week's crash, which killed all 45 people on board.

Not everyone is happy that Russia will likely join the World Trade Organization this summer, and a referendum drive is under way to question the country's accession. Many Russia-based lawyers, however, welcome the nation's entry into the WTO.

Uzbekistan's government says it plans to sell off almost 500 state assets over the next two years in an ongoing drive to expand the private sector in this former Soviet nation.

(VIDEO) Two Russians and an American blasted off in a Soyuz spaceship headed for the International Space Station Tuesday, overcoming more than a month's delay caused by problems with the Russian spacecraft.

At a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on Tuesday, the president said the group's influence in regional affairs will increase.

Companies will be required to submit customs declarations in advance for goods arriving by road at the Russian border, according to new regulations issued by the Federal Customs Service that will come into force in mid-June.

Officials are responsible for about half the registered violations of anti-monopoly laws, deputy head of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service Andrei Tsarikovsky said in an interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta.

Thirty-seven individuals are now on trial in Kazakhstan's western city of Aktau charged with organizing and participating in violent disturbances that left 14 people dead and scores injured in the oil town of Zhanaozen in December. These tragic events were sparked by a long-standing dispute between oil company Ozenmunaigaz in Zhanaozen and some of its former workers.

The ordinary Muscovite would find it hard to say who Abai Qunanbayuli is and where his statue can be found in the city.

A genetic study of horses across Eastern Europe and Central Asia has traced the domestication of one of man's most powerful animal allies to wide-open grasslands shared by southwest Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.