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Candidate Duelling Fails to Take Off

IWPR editor Aida Kasymalieva reviews the election news of the last week, and describes how a scheduled series of radio and TV debates have failed to materialise.

Kyrgyz Taxis Take Left Turn

Parliament is reviewing legislation that would ban the use of right-hand drive cars as taxis. Alina Kenjeeva reports that taxi drivers with Japanese-import cars are worried for their future.

Doorstepping Seen as Key Campaign Method

Candidates in the forthcoming Kyrgyz presidential election are focusing on meeting potential voters rather than on media appearances.

Hubble Bubble Means Forest Trouble

Taste for nargile leads to woods being plundered for charcoal-making.

Flash Mob Joins Election Fray

Youth groups get round restrictions on freedom of assembly by staging flash mob actions ahead of the Kyrgyz presidential election.

Uzbekistan: Soviet Pesticides Leave Bitter Legacy

Farmland still contaminated with DDT from past decades, experts say.

Tajikistan's Under-Age Market Workers

As Tajikistan tries to curb child labour in the cotton fields, many children are hard at work at urban markets.

Tajik Drivers Alarmed at Toll Road

The introduction of tolls on the major highway leading from the capital Dushanbe to Khujand, the main town in northern Tajikistan, has not gone down well with drivers.

Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Fall Off Corruption Watchdog's Blacklist

Russian, Ukrainian Presidents Off to Turkmenistan