Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: Paper Tiger or Sleeping Dragon?
Eurasian grouping will include half of the world’s population when it expands next year.
26 Sep 16
Eurasian grouping will include half of the world’s population when it expands next year.
Opposition groups say reforms will perpetuate the powers of the current leadership.
Many participants given little choice but to take part in mass celebrations.
How has the late leader left his country after 25 years of autocratic rule?
The late leader leaves a tainted legacy and no evident successor.
Looking back at images of life in the quarter-century since independence.
Rumours circulate that funeral preparations have already begun.
Interior minister vows to pursue the Islamic cleric´s movement.
The authoritarian system built over 25 years may outlast any one leader.