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Decision to close schools is a major setback for non-ethnic Turkmens.

21 Feb 05

State television threatens to sue Radio Liberty, claiming it libelled one of its journalists.

21 Feb 05

Government denies claims that its much trumpeted media reforms are a sham

21 Feb 05

Issue of racism and discrimination against economic migrants in Russia raised again.

21 Feb 05

Unprecedented attempt by a small businessman to organise anti-Karimov protest reflects widespread discontent in Uzbekistan.

21 Feb 05

Legendary underground lake is reportedly being polluted by Turkmen soldiers with nowhere else to bathe.

21 Feb 05

Rights activists fail to find consensus over tackling security service abuses.

21 Feb 05

Tashkent accused of intimidating democracy activists on eve of major gathering of regional heads of state.

21 Feb 05

Thousands of high school leavers find they can’t go to university, and can’t get a job either.

21 Feb 05

Schoolchildren are spending their holidays doing backbreaking and potential dangerous manual labour, for no pay.

21 Feb 05

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