Central Asia

Kyrgyzstan: Officials Furious Over Power Cuts

Outraged Kyrgyz officials take power firm to court for cutting electricity to government ministry building.

21 Feb 05

New law may be implemented in an attempt to reverse a series of disappointing harvests.

21 Feb 05

Non-government media subjected to closures and threats in run-up to 2005 elections.

21 Feb 05

Government move to ban radioactive imports pleases environmentalists but angers processing plant workers.

21 Feb 05

Authorities deny that their latest move against the popular Moya Stolitsa Novosti is designed to close it down.

21 Feb 05

Elderly Turkmen are having their pensions slashed as a result of a recalculation process.

21 Feb 05

Officials use promises and threats to recruit extra labour to gather the important crop.

21 Feb 05

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.

21 Feb 05

Amateur coalminers risk life and limb digging out a livelihood.

21 Feb 05

New bloc formed after parties’ election defeat is intended to work towards a presidential election still two years away.

21 Feb 05

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