Economy

Tajik Suicide Rate Driven Up by Hardship

Uneconomic Farming in Tajikistan

Uzbek Uranium Industry Hit by Japan Nuclear Crisis

Power Struggles in North Kyrgyzstan

Turkmenistan: Fishing in Troubled Waters

Armenia Sinking into Poverty

Nearly 50 per cent of government expenditure goes on welfare payments, which say officials has prevented poverty from reaching catastrophic levels.

Dodgy Food Standards in Badakhshan

Afghan Pipeline Dream One Step Closer

Analysts see Pakistani support as key to guaranteeing security of pipeline through insurgent heartlands.

Uzbeks Pressured to Take Up Farming

Kazak Police Threaten Dissidents With Psychiatric Confinement

Image-conscious government avoids labelling critics as mentally unstable, but police in provinces still use forcible committal as threat.