Turkmenistan

Kazak Returnees Claim Discrimination

Help for ethnic Kazaks returning home is distributed unevenly, say activists.

21 Feb 05

New law may be implemented in an attempt to reverse a series of disappointing harvests.

21 Feb 05

Elderly Turkmen are having their pensions slashed as a result of a recalculation process.

21 Feb 05

Kazakstan jeopardises relations with its Central Asian neighbours in an attempt to strengthen ties with Russia

21 Feb 05

Kyrgyzstan's voters confound observers, re-electing President Askar Akaev by a larger margin than ever

21 Feb 05

Speakers at an IWPR conference in Almaty warn that outbreaks of violence across Central Asia could escalate into a regional conflict.

21 Feb 05

Muslim militancy makes little headway in Bukhara, one of Islam's holiest cities

21 Feb 05

President of Kazakstan prepares to send armed forces abroad to suppress Islamic fundamentalist insurgency

21 Feb 05

Kyrgyzstan - a vulnerable pawn in the Central Asian chess game

21 Feb 05

Astana moves closer to establishing ties with the ascendant Taleban movement

21 Feb 05

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