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Kazakhstan’s ruling party has changed its name as President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev seeks to distance himself from his predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbaev. 

One of Russia’s leading media outlets, the Moscow radio station Ekho Moskvy, has been taken off the air amid a Russian crackdown on independent media covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Three of the world’s largest container shipping companies say they are suspending nonessential deliveries to Russia, adding to a litany of economic punishments aimed at Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) announced on March 1 that member countries had agreed to release 60 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves to stabilize the market after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

In an unusual move, dozens of Russian Orthodox clerics have called for an immediate stop to the ongoing war in Ukraine in an open letter issued on March 1.

Generations of Afghans have fled to Ukraine in recent decades to seek refuge from conflict. But now these students, immigrants, and refugees are trying to leave Ukraine due to the war in which Russia is using lethal weapons to attack Kyiv and other big cities.  

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The tumbling Russian ruble's impact on Central Asia has been swift and hard. The remittance-dependent households in the region are seeing their income shrink overnight. Even the region's largest economy, Kazakhstan, is feeling the strain as its national currency plummets.

Tens of thousands of Ukrainians, mainly women and children, continue to pour across the country's western borders to flee fighting between invading Russian troops and Ukrainian forces amid warnings from the European Union that Moscow's unprovoked war risks displacing "over 7 million people."

RFE/RL has rejected Russian state media-monitoring agency Roskomnadzor's threat to block its Current Time website in Russia unless it deletes information about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.