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Institute for War & Peace Reporting
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Turkmen Face Crippling Travel Curbs
Mushrooming checkpoints along major routes have made Turkmen citizens foreigners in their own country.
22 Feb 05
Kyrgyzstan: Migrants Swindled
Kyrgyz hopes of a new life are dashed in Czech detention camps.
22 Feb 05
Kyrgyzstan: Top University Rocked by Dispute
Clash between two senior academics resolved by sending both on sabbatical – but the row may not be over.
22 Feb 05
Despair Drives Women to Drugs Trade
Central Asian drugs-traffickers are offering Kyrgyz women lucrative employment and an escape from grinding poverty
22 Feb 05
Islamic Defeat in Tajikistan
The Islamic opposition fails to become a credible political force after disastrous election results
22 Feb 05
Golden Valley Darkens
Islamic fundamentalists are exploiting economic hardship in the once prosperous Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan.
22 Feb 05
Tajikistan's Plutonium Scare
Police foil an attempt to smuggle weapons-grade nuclear material for sale in Afghanistan or Pakistan.
22 Feb 05
Kyrgyz Prisons in Dire State
By Sultan Jumagulov in Bishkek and Leila Saralaeva in Stepnoe (RCA No. 274, 30-Mar-04)
22 Feb 05
Tajik Women Turn to Crime
Their lives shattered by civil war, more and more women in Tajikistan
21 Feb 05
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