Turkmenistan

Tajikistan Voices Drugs Fear

Officials believe the United States should tackle Afghanistan's thriving opium industry as a matter of urgency.

21 Feb 05

Raid on police station in southern Kyrgyzstan raises spectre of renewed Islamic guerrilla activity.

21 Feb 05

Interior ministry says suspected Hizb ut-Tahrir group, which has been broken up in the Sogd region, was being funded from abroad.

21 Feb 05

Cross-border trade likely to suffer as Kyrgyzstan closes frontier checkpoints over SARS fears.

21 Feb 05

Reporters’ lives are made a misery by hostile officials and mean employers.

21 Feb 05

The freeing of a Kazak opposition leader comes amid a government clampdown on political and media freedoms.

21 Feb 05

Jailed opposition journalist’s supporters fear alleged attack was masterminded by the authorities.

21 Feb 05

The fate of opposition activists such as Sergei Duvanov seems to have frightened many journalists into toeing the government line.

21 Feb 05

Critics of Nazarbaev regime say recent media forum was merely an attempt to improve the country’s international image.

21 Feb 05

Police routinely demand bribes from visitors to the capital, despite efforts by the authorities to clamp down on the abuse.

21 Feb 05

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