Central Asia

Georgia: Russian Gas Deal Concerns

Government criticised for planning to allow a Russian energy giant to have a monopoly over the country's gas supply.

4 Oct 02

The two breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are strengthening their anti-Georgian alliance.

12 Sep 02

Ultra-nationalists who forced cancellation of war crimes photographic exhibition have little for fear from the authorities.

31 Aug 02

Bucharest hopes its firm support for US action on Iraq and strong stand against suspected extremist groups will ease its path into NATO.

28 Aug 02

President Niazov's policy of weeding out potential rivals is running his country into the ground.

24 Aug 02

Many Albanians believe the Kosovo's judicial system is weighted against them.

23 Aug 02

Abkhazia’s ex-soldiers find themselves unemployed, depressed and even suicidal.

14 Aug 02

An upsurge of fighting on the Georgian-Chechnya border had sparked the worst quarrel in years between Tbilisi and Moscow.

9 Aug 02

Parties loyal to President Shevardnadze were humiliated in Georgia's local elections, amid scenes of chaos and claims of vote-rigging.

6 Jul 02

Hundreds of thousands of migrants in southern Russia are coming under pressure to leave the region

4 Jul 02

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