A Texas based rail firm signed a 3 billion dollar public private partnership agreement with Kyrgyzstan in February 2026 that will connect the landlocked country to the Trans Caspian International Transport Route for the first time through American built and managed railway infrastructure. The deal between All American Rail Group […]
ATBA Discusses Strategic Trade and Investment Pathways with Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz
In a major initiative aimed at strengthening transatlantic trade and expanding economic corridors, the leadership of the American-Turkic Republics Business Alliance (ATBA) recently engaged in a high level strategic dialogue with the Vice President of the Republic of Turkey, Mr. Cevdet Yilmaz. The exclusive meeting focused on accelerating Turkey’s export […]
US Eyes UzAuto Motors as Uzbekistan Opens Largest Ever Privatization Wave
Uzbekistan is preparing the largest privatization program in its post Soviet history, and the United States has explicitly signaled its interest in participating in one of the most valuable assets on offer: UzAuto Motors, the country’s dominant automotive manufacturer. According to a factsheet released by the US State Department following […]
Leidos Wins 19 Year Air Traffic Control Contract for Kazakhstan
American defense and technology firm Leidos has signed a landmark contract with Kazaeronavigatsia, Kazakhstan’s national air navigation service provider, to modernize the country’s entire air traffic management system. The agreement, announced on October 8, 2025, carries a 19 year period of performance and covers four air traffic control centers and […]
Wabtec and World Bank Back Kazakhstan’s Middle Corridor Rail Expansion
Two landmark transactions in the space of five months have placed American industry and international finance at the center of Kazakhstan’s most ambitious infrastructure project: the modernization and expansion of its segment of the Trans Caspian International Transport Route, commonly known as the Middle Corridor. Together, a 4.2 billion dollar […]
John Deere Signs $2.8B Farm Equipment Deals with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
The C5+1 Presidential Summit held on November 6, 2025, at the White House produced one of the most concrete agricultural deals in the history of US relations with Central Asia. American farm equipment manufacturer John Deere signed two separate agreements with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, totaling nearly 2.8 billion dollars and […]
Trans Caspian Cable to Break Central Asia’s Russian Internet Dependence
A 380 kilometer fiber optic cable running along the floor of the Caspian Sea is on track to become operational in the third quarter of 2026 and when it does, it will mark the most significant shift in Central Asia’s digital geography since the Soviet Union’s collapse. The Trans Caspian […]
Kazakhstan Partners with Perplexity AI for Central Asia’s First AI R&D Center
In a move that signals the broadening scope of the US–Kazakhstan relationship well beyond oil fields and uranium mines, Astana IT University (AITU) has coordinated a landmark agreement with San Francisco based Perplexity AI, Inc. to establish the first dedicated artificial intelligence research and development center in Central Asia. The […]
Colorado School of Mines Opens First Overseas Campus in Kazakhstan
The world’s top ranked university for mineral and mining engineering is opening its first ever international campus and it is doing so in the copper heartland of Kazakhstan. Colorado School of Mines, which holds the number one position globally in Mineral and Mining Engineering in the QS World University Rankings […]
Congress Eyes End to Cold War Trade Curbs on Central Asia
More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a relic of Cold War economic policy continues to cast a shadow over United States trade relations with Central Asia. The Jackson Vanik Amendment, a provision of the 1974 Trade Act signed under President Gerald Ford was originally designed […]