HIV Shadow Lengthens Over South Kyrgyzstan
Once largely confined to drug addicts and sex workers, HIV is now spreading across the community at large.
13 Mar 08
Special Report
Halting Progress on Turkmen Reforms
In a series of wide-ranging interviews, IWPR has learned that people remain sceptical about their new president’s real intentions, although they are grateful pensions are being paid and schooling improved.
21 Feb 08
Turkmenistan: Twilight Existence for Uzbek Illegals
Sixteen years after independence, thousands of Uzbeks from the border districts of Turkmenistan remain without passports.
8 Feb 08
Exiled Islamist Still Attracts Following in Kyrgyzstan
In a region racked by poverty and discontent, modern technology offers extremists a way of making themselves heard.
18 Jan 08
Kyrgyzstan: Refugees Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Uzbek refugees in Kyrgyzstan have been left in a legal twilight zone by contradictory legislation and political pressure.
28 Dec 07
Campaigners Urge Fresh Start in Tajik War on Drugs
As Tajikistan faces rising numbers of addicts and a related increase in HIV infection, experts say the authorities need to stop persecuting addicts and start offering substitute therapies instead.
19 Dec 07
Unclear Kyrgyz-Kazak Border Makes Life Tough for Villagers
Border difficulties affecting Kyrgyz villagers blamed on overzealous frontier guards and on Kyrgyzstan’s failure to ratify a demarcation agreement.
17 Dec 07
China's Road Into Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz truck drivers and market traders who have benefited from trade routes to their eastern neighbour are less enthusiastic about the growing Chinese role in the local economy.
5 Dec 07
Uzbek Election Counts for Little
Six candidates, five political parties and only one possible winner.
13 Nov 07
Street Battles Rock Georgian Capital
State of emergency to be imposed across Georgia as government uses force to disperse opposition demonstrations.
12 Nov 07
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