Central Asia

Akaev Woos Russians

A powerful public relations campaign is underway to persuade Kyrgyzstan's Russian minority to vote for President Askar Akaev

21 Feb 05

Tens of thousands of Uzbek children are being used as cheap labour in the country's cotton harvest

21 Feb 05

Attempts to curb prodigious consumption of alcohol in Uzbekistan are it seems doomed to fail

21 Feb 05

Kyrgyz wonder who they're fighting in the war-torn Batken region of the country

21 Feb 05

Turkmen president would prefer to play a neutal, peacemaking role in the Afghan crisis

21 Feb 05

Southern Uzbekistan is on full military alert, as the country's armed forces prepare for war in Afghanistan

21 Feb 05

Countries neighbouring Afghanistan refuse to participate directly in US-led military strike against the Kabul regime.

21 Feb 05

Mullah Omar has reinforced his positions in the north of Afghanistan in readiness for expected US-led strikes.

21 Feb 05

Uzbek veterans of the Soviet Afghan conflict say the US and its allies are in for a long, hard war.

21 Feb 05

The Northern Alliance say they have taken several key Afghan villages in an offensive coordinated with US-led air-strikes.

21 Feb 05

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