Central Asia

Astana Needs to Push OSCE Diplomacy

EU Quietly Courts Uzbeks

Making a Regional Water Deal Work

Fair Deal for Ethnic Minorities Seen as Crucial for Progress

Indian Military Base Looks Unlikely

Divorce System Works Against Uzbek Women

Laws give women equal rights, but state institutions work to prevent them getting a divorce.

World Turkmen Event for Loyalists Only

Wiring up the CIS

Coal Offers Alternative Energy Source

Tbilisi Fears Russian Recognition of Rebel Regions

Speculation mounts that Moscow may punish Georgia over spy scandal by recognising Abkhazia and South Ossetia.