At the very time when government wants to be less dependent on food imports, it’s becoming impossible for some farmers to survive.

For a quarter of a century, water, land and ethnic conflicts have poisoned ties between the five ’stans. Now, even as the U.K. pulls away from the European Union, and other countries in the bloc mull their future in it, Central Asian nations are opening up to one another, taking steps to establish what in a few years could amount to their version of a Schengen zone.

‘Unacceptable’ lack of progress on alternative to EU’s Galileo project after Brexit, says committee.

President Putin denies that Russia welcomes Britain’s vote to leave the EU – but it offers a possibility of weakened sanctions and a shift in power relations