Carmack notes that Kazakhstan’s political leadership – almost all officials were ethnic Russians or other Slavs. He discusses how the Soviet authorities used the war to further their long standing ...

A newly released novel is illuminating a little known chapter of Central Asian history during the Soviet era. It focuses on ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

Moscow and Astana have formed a joint working group for the ‘custody of historical memory’. The Russians are pointing the finger at the way the imperial policy of the tsars and the Soviet ...