Central Asia

Azerbaijan Under Pressure on Trafficking

Hundreds of Azerbaijani women are being trafficked each year and the scale of the problem is only now becoming evident.

21 Apr 04

New foreign minister expected to raise the country's profile, but no real change in policies expected.

8 Apr 04

Russian prisoners sent home from Guantanamo Bay remain in custody and their families are in the dark about what will happen to them.

27 Mar 04

Everything from city streets to the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline may soon bear the name of former president Heidar Aliev.

18 Mar 04

Azerbaijanis breeders are struggling to keep alive a centuries-old horse rearing tradition.

11 Mar 04

A wrangle between Russian suppliers leaves Azerbaijani consumers cold.

4 Mar 04

Sixty years on, there will be little public commemoration of the Stalinist deportations of the Chechen people.

21 Feb 04

A dispute is still raging over how many Ingush refugees deserve the right of return to North Ossetia.

29 Jan 04

America is strongly backing a move to end Russia’s military presence in the republic – possibly so it can then send in its own personnel.

22 Jan 04

President-elect Saakashvili begins to confront Georgia’s economic collapse and endemic corruption.

8 Jan 04

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