The Azerbaijan Airlines flight had been traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in Russia on Dec. 25 Dozens have died after a passenger plane crashed on Christmas Day. According to the ...

In the semi-abandoned village of Ulken on a giant steppe, Anna Kapustina, a mother of five, hopes controversial plans to build Kazakhstan's first nuclear power plant will breathe life into her ailing ...

Critics argue that the Kazakh people were presented a largely one-sided positive view of the referendum, making the victory of the “yes” camp unsurprising. On October 6, Kazakh citizens voted in a ...

ULKEN, Almaty region, Kazakhstan >> Kazakhstan voted in a referendum on Sunday on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, an idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s government as ...

At least 38 people are dead and 29 others injured after an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger aircraft crashed near Kazakhstan's Aktau Airport close to the Caspian Sea on Wednesday morning, a spokesperson ...

The Aral Sea straddles the border of the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It was once one of the world's largest lakes, but after years of being drained to irrigate crops, it ...

Unearthed pottery shards were tied to Late Bronze Age cultures, such as the barley farming Cherkaskul and cattle and sheep-herding Alekseyevka-Sargary. Notable Bronze Age communities largely existed ...

An Azerbaijani airliner carrying 67 people crashed in southwestern Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing at least 38 who were on board, according to Kazakh authorities. In a sprawling rescue operation, 29 ...