Tajikistan: Repressive Religious Law in the Pipeline
Proposed legislation would make it harder for smaller faith groups to operate.
Proposed legislation would make it harder for smaller faith groups to operate.
South Ossetian leader must improve living conditions for locals in wake of election or risk support switching to opposition, warn analysts.
Officials convene emergency meeting to manage what may be a difficult transition following the death of President Saparmurat Niazov.
Officials convene emergency meeting to manage what may be a difficult transition.
Government allegations that ministers were involved in a coup plot suggests that an apparently monolithic ruling elite is in fact fragmented.
South Ossetian leader must improve living conditions for locals in wake of election or risk support switching to opposition, warn analysts.
The government says it only wants to streamline parliament’s work, but the opposition says the real aim is to silence debate.
Regional journalists attending an IWPR seminar pledge to cooperate more closely.
“Gorbachev blew his chance” to reconstitute Soviet Union, Ayaz Mutallibov says.
As President Sargsyan stresses economic benefits of joining Russian-led bloc, others fear they are signing up to political union as well.