Kyrgyzstan: Officials Furious Over Power Cuts
Outraged Kyrgyz officials take power firm to court for cutting electricity to government ministry building.
Outraged Kyrgyz officials take power firm to court for cutting electricity to government ministry building.
New law may be implemented in an attempt to reverse a series of disappointing harvests.
Non-government media subjected to closures and threats in run-up to 2005 elections.
Government move to ban radioactive imports pleases environmentalists but angers processing plant workers.
Authorities deny that their latest move against the popular Moya Stolitsa Novosti is designed to close it down.
Elderly Turkmen are having their pensions slashed as a result of a recalculation process.
Officials use promises and threats to recruit extra labour to gather the important crop.
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.
Amateur coalminers risk life and limb digging out a livelihood.
New bloc formed after parties’ election defeat is intended to work towards a presidential election still two years away.