Russia

Freed Tajik Opposition Leader Defiant

Prosecutors insist Moscow was wrong to release Democratic leader Mahmadruzi Iskandarov.

20 Nov 05

“Counterrevolutionaries” blamed for alleged leaflet campaign advocating ethnic discord.

20 Nov 05

Students buy their way through university without attending lectures, just to get a diploma.

20 Nov 05

Questions are asked about how a high-profile figure turned up in detention in Tajikistan when he was last seen as a free man in Russia.

20 Nov 05

Everyone’s reading it, but only because studying the president’s book is compulsory for pre-school kids and surgeons alike.

20 Nov 05

Poverty and bureaucracy frustrate efforts to find homes for orphans and abandoned children.

20 Nov 05

Has Moscow allowed the Turkmen president to strip ethnic Russians of their rights for the price of a gas contract?

20 Nov 05

Victims of attacks on shops and other business during the March revolution are doubtful the government will live up to its promise to recompense them

20 Nov 05

In a high-profile court case, a former minister turns the tables by claiming that Kazakstan’s ruling elite controls the media.

20 Nov 05

Prosecutor general warns that ex-president’s immunity from prosecution could be stripped from him if wrongdoing is proved.

20 Nov 05

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