Uzbekistan

Conscription a Popular Career Move in Uzbekistan

Young men used to avoid army service like the plague, but now they are clamouring for a job that offers a way out of unemployment.

21 Feb 05

Amateur coalminers risk life and limb digging out a livelihood.

21 Feb 05

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

21 Feb 05

Two of Uzbekistan's most notorious Islamic militants are being tried in absentia.

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

Human rights campaigners accuse the Uzbek government of falsely jailing

21 Feb 05

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