Russia

Uzbekistan: Human Rights Defender Fights Back

Police threaten to send a prominent human rights activist back to a mental hospital - but she says she won't give up.

21 Feb 05

Russia, China and the US are building relationships with Kyrgyzstan - but can it survive their threefold embrace?

21 Feb 05

Officials and ordinary citizens live in constant fear as the Turkmen president stamps on potential opposition - real or imagined.

21 Feb 05

People on overseas travel blacklist bribe venal officials and hire smugglers to get out of the country.

21 Feb 05

President uses international media event to rule that a controversial law is unconstitutional.

21 Feb 05

People in the south of the republic are refusing to leave for safer areas despite latest landslide deaths.

21 Feb 05

Kyrgyzstan's attempts to make Kyrgyz its official language have alienated Russian-speakers

21 Feb 05

Astana is seriously concerned over plans by China to divert several cross-border rivers

21 Feb 05

Kazakstan and Kyrgyzstan are preparing to repel an expected offensive by Islamic insurgents

21 Feb 05

Planned legislation seems likely to have a sharp impact on the freedom of overseas companies to run their operations in Kazakstan

21 Feb 05

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