Independence Square was formerly called Lenin Square and the statue of the Marxist dictator has been dismantled. Tashkent’s Metro (2,000 Uzbek som = 12p a ticket) has interestingly-themed stops ...

THE SQUARE IN INDEPENDENCE IS BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS. THEY’LL BE USING THE INSIDE OF SOME LOCATIONS. THEY’LL BE USING SOME OF THE SIDEWALKS, THE INDY SQUARE CHOSEN OVER ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — She won’t be able to drive for another nine years but parents of an Independence second grader say she’s already had her first collision. Alannah Cheffen, 7, says she ran ...

Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million and growing) has evolved to become the star ...

Alex Salmond, who turned his Scottish National Party’s dream of power into reality even though he didn’t see his vision of an independent country come true, has died. He was 69. Salmond ...

Mostly Russian-speaking Transdniester, a narrow stretch of land on the left bank on the Dniester River that borders Ukraine, declared independence ... A month earlier, a Tashkent court handed ...

China has launched large-scale military drills around Taiwan in what Beijing described as a warning to “Taiwan independence forces”. The exercises follow a speech last week by the self ...

The exercises had been expected after Beijing criticized a speech last week by Taiwan President Lai Ching-te. In the speech marking Taiwan’s National Day, Lai said that China had no right to ...

There were two setbacks for Russia last week in a region it has long regarded as a sphere of influence as both Uzbekistan and ...

In other words, the wall between fiscal and monetary policy is already partially broken down, and the central bank’s independence is overstated. To the extent that personnel is policy ...

Why don't we now write an anthem for future generations about the fact that our people have a five-thousand-year history?” ...