Central Asia

Azerbaijan and Georgia Sweat Over Chechnya

Baku closes a Chechen envoy's office while Tbilisi fears a new Russian backlash.

31 Oct 02

Bucharest, Belgrade and Zagreb sign up to the construction of an oil pipeline linking the Black Sea to Western Europe.

7 Oct 02

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

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