Central Asia

Turkmenistan: President's Pipe Dream Lives On

A deal to build a gas pipeline across Central Asia has been signed - now all the Turkmen leader has to do is find someone to build it

21 Feb 05

Activists claim an amnesty offered to Dodojon Atovulloev is a sop to soothe international concerns about free speech and civil liberties.

21 Feb 05

Captured senior IMU official talks to IWPR about his experiences in the guerrilla movement.

21 Feb 05

Some Kyrgyz politicians express doubts over an agreement to allow a significant increase in Russia's military presence in the country.

21 Feb 05

The Kazak government makes a show of allowing a free press to flourish but media representatives call this year the most difficult in their history.

21 Feb 05

Residents of Dushanbe are so badly served by their media that they have to rely on Russian TV to find out what's happening in their country.

21 Feb 05

An old enemy has returned to the north of the country, aided by severe drought and government inaction.

21 Feb 05

Government, opposition and civil society leaders come together in a new initiative aimed at defusing the growing political crisis.

21 Feb 05

Move to allow US military planes to land at Almaty airport triggers suspicions of an American army deployment in the country.

21 Feb 05

Uzbekistan's Islamic militants badly beaten in Afghanistan are trying to retreat to their former stronghold in the Tajik mountains.

21 Feb 05

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