Russia’s geography—landlocked on the plains of central Eurasia, with few natural defenses—has not really changed since 1547, when the 16-year-old Ivan the Terrible made himself tsar.

4) Cental Asia-China gas pipeline, line D China signed agreements with Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to build a fourth line of the central Asia-China gas pipeline in September 2013.

Central Asia's rise to global prominence stems from both geography and resources. Straddling the routes between East Asia, the Middle East and Europe, the region is central to facilitating ...

A new study on early human migration shows that semi-arid and desert zones of Central Asia may have served as key areas for the dispersal of hominins into Eurasia during the Middle Pleistocene.

CIR AUREL STEIN delivered the first “Asia Lecture “before the Royal Geographical Society on November 3. He chose for his subject an account of his three expeditions to the Tarim Basin in ...