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01.02.2008 13:46 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
Another US emissary, the third this year after Senator Richard Lugar and Admiral William Fallon of the US Central Command, was met in Ashkhabad in late January. Diplomat Stephen Mann, 56, is well known both in Turkmenistan, all over the Caspian region, and in the Caucasus. US Ambassador to Ashkhabad
30.01.2008 14:10 msk Analytics
While some US senators are fighting tooth and claw for the White House, others seconded by the military make sure that the next US president will have bridgeheads in faraway countries to pursue his foreign policy in. Admiral William Fallon of the US Central Command completed his tour of Central Asia
30.01.2008 09:48 msk Analytics Tajikistan
Economic hardships faced off by Tajikistan in the recent years have laid a fertile ground for most of the women entering the sex industry. Official estimates show that an average salary in Tajikistan reaches $36. One-night stand girls earn about $100 per night depending on the client' wellbeing and
18.01.2008 13:00 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
The government of Germany retains vivid interest in Central Asia, and consultations with Kazakh ex-premier Akejan Kajegeldin convened by the office of the federal chancellor on January 16 confirm it. A charismatic Kazakh politician who sided with the opposition in late 1998, Kajegeldyn has been livi
26.12.2007 12:15 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Political regimes have a tendency to solidify their positions - for years at least. Societies even come to perceive whatever happens in their respective countries as a blessing. Uzbekistan, the Central Asian country that elected its president last Sunday, is a vivid example.
24.12.2007 12:35 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
"The Loneliest Authoritarian Ruler" is a piece in Nezavisimaya Gazeta by Aleksei Malashenko. An expert with the Moscow Carnegie Center, Malashenko dwells on the political situation in Uzbekistan and the necessity for President Islam Karimov to start thinking of successors.
20.12.2007 14:52 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov passed away on the night on December 21, 2006. His demise generated a furor. Turkmenistan had been the least open country in the whole Central Asian region for years, and the obscure always attracts. Moreover, Niyazov's demise occurred when the struggle o
17.12.2007 10:33 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
Who would have thought that in less than three years after the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan the parliamentary election in this country would resemble the recent Russian campaign or that this small republic located between China, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan would become a Central Asian Putistan with
12.12.2007 11:03 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
What caused disillusionment in the Tulip Revolutionaries? Temir Sariyev, one of the leaders of the Kyrgyz opposition, is trying to answer this question in his piece in Izvestia. Sariyev is convinced that President Kurmanbek Bakiyev engineered a political situation where political forces and even the
10.12.2007 15:51 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
Osh journalist Alisher Saipov, Siyosat Chief Editor, was assassinated over a month ago. His murder stirred general public both in Kyrgyzstan and abroad. Numerous Kyrgyz and some Uzbek media outlets featured pieces written by the people sympathizing with Saipov and valuing him as a true friend and pr
10.12.2007 15:46 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
President Islam Karimov made a keynote address two weeks before the presidential election scheduled for December 23. One of the four candidates running for president, Karimov has been the head of state for nearly two decades now, since the Soviet days. That's probably what entitles him to address al
07.12.2007 11:37 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
The OSCE Council of Foreign Ministers met on November 29 and 30 in Madrid, Spain, and voted to make Kazakhstan chairman of this international organization in 2010. All 56 OSCE members voted "aye". Experts believe that Kazakhstan as the OSCE chairman will capitalize on promotion of this structure on
28.11.2007 15:04 msk Analytics Tajikistan
Death rate in Tajikistan is quite high. According to the Statistics State Committee, the death rate is 26.4 per every 1,000 citizens. Average duration of life in Tajikistan in 1993 was 66 years according to the national Statistics State Committee and 54.7 years (56.4 for women and 53.1 for men) acco
28.11.2007 12:23 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
The episode remembered in Turkmenistan as 25 Sanjar (November, renamed on Saparmurat Niyazov's order) took place five years ago. According to the Turkmen authorities, attempt on the life of President Niyazov was made that day in 2002.
28.11.2007 12:20 msk Afghanistan Analytics
Afghani drugs are as much a pressing problem of the international community as the global warming is. Existence of the problem is recognized by everybody but a solution to it is not known. An international conference on the subject took place in Kabul in late October. According to the UN report pres
15.11.2007 19:43 msk Analytics Tajikistan
Another explosion in the capital of Tajikistan (and not the first one this year) reminded general public of the series of similar explosions in Tashkent on the eve of parliamentary and presidential elections there in 1999. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan organized those explosions in front of the
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