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As the government continues to arrest suspects, Tashkent residents voice anger at the conditions that they say fuelled the attacks.
Subservience to president reaches absurd levels as officials treat impromptu comments as repressive law.
People on overseas travel blacklist bribe venal officials and hire smugglers to get out of the country.
Alarming evidence that some of those involved in recent violence were from middle-class homes with no history of Islamic radicalism.
Police try to modify fearsome image after being deliberately targeted in attacks.
Disgruntled politician says he will try to force President Nazarbaev to step down.
Poverty is driving increasing numbers of children to beg on the streets of the capital.
Workers and ecologists say covering cotton fields with polythene is costly and damaging.
Families and activists are concerned at heavy-handed attempts to catch those suspected of involvement in the Tashkent attacks.
The opposition Erk party says harassment of activists is increasing as election approaches.