Caucasus

Distance Learning in Tajikistan

Students buy their way through university without attending lectures, just to get a diploma.

20 Nov 05

Questions are asked about how a high-profile figure turned up in detention in Tajikistan when he was last seen as a free man in Russia.

20 Nov 05

Everyone’s reading it, but only because studying the president’s book is compulsory for pre-school kids and surgeons alike.

20 Nov 05

Has Moscow allowed the Turkmen president to strip ethnic Russians of their rights for the price of a gas contract?

20 Nov 05

Summer plane tickets out of Turkmenistan are being sold to the highest bidder, regardless of whether they have already been booked and paid for.

20 Nov 05

The government is refusing to register youth groups it fears are plotting a revolution.

20 Nov 05

Changes to laws on religion and the media will give government prosecutors new powers of censorship.

20 Nov 05

Victims of attacks on shops and other business during the March revolution are doubtful the government will live up to its promise to recompense them

20 Nov 05

In a high-profile court case, a former minister turns the tables by claiming that Kazakstan’s ruling elite controls the media.

20 Nov 05

Military mount crowd-dispersal exercises as officials speak of need to bolster weapon stocks and scrutinise the opposition.

20 Nov 05

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