The residents of a Kyrgyz village, which is located close to the border with Tajikistan, were temporarily evacuated on Friday due to tensions on the Tajik border, the press service of Kyrgyzstan's Batken region told Sputnik

Two people were killed and seven injured on Monday in Russia's Siberian region of Tyumen, as a result of a bus and truck crashing on a highway, the regional General Administration for Traffic Safety said

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on January 5 for a two-day visit, the Kazakh and Uzbek ministries of foreign announced in press releases on Monday

Japan has handed to Russia soil from the grave of Richard Sorge, a Soviet spy who many claim changed the course of history during World War 2, as part of a military-patriotic initiative dubbed "Handful of Memory," Russian Deputy Defense Minister Andrey Kartapolov said on Thursday

The first workshop of the China-Central Asia Accounting Elites Exchange Programme officially kicked off at the Shanghai National Accounting Institute