Tajikistan: New Party Fights for Life
Another opposition group finds the way blocked to next year's election.
21 Feb 05
Central Asia
Uzbekistan: Uneasy Calm Reigns After Attacks
As the government continues to arrest suspects, Tashkent residents voice anger at the conditions that they say fuelled the attacks.
21 Feb 05
Turkmen Treasury Out of Cash
Government cash shortage means that teachers, nurses and journalists haven’t been paid for months.
21 Feb 05
Kazakstan Tackles Hizb-ut-Tahrir
Officials abandon softly-softly approach to Islamic radicals in favour of tougher approach.
21 Feb 05
Kyrgyzstan Struggles to Cope with Migrants
The forced eviction of squatters has highlighted the problem of urban migration. By Nataliya Domagalskaya and Aida Kasymalieva in Bishkek (RCA No. 277, 16-Apr-04)
21 Feb 05
Protests Against Chinese Traders
Competition from over the border riles small-time traders as well as bigger businessmen.
21 Feb 05
Turkmenistan: Good as Gold
Subservience to president reaches absurd levels as officials treat impromptu comments as repressive law.
21 Feb 05
Turkmen Travel Ban Fuels Corruption
People on overseas travel blacklist bribe venal officials and hire smugglers to get out of the country.
21 Feb 05
Kyrgyz Officials Send Pre-Election Warning
Protesters' arrests seen as signal that authorities won't put up with unrest in advance of next year's elections.
21 Feb 05
Uzbekistan: Affluent Suicide Bombers
Alarming evidence that some of those involved in recent violence were from middle-class homes with no history of Islamic radicalism.
21 Feb 05
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