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12.11.2007 12:07 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
The head of state Islam Karimov aspires for presidency again. Election of the president of Uzbekistan is scheduled for December 23, 2007, but its outcome is already a foregone conclusion - as well as the name of the man to rule the country another seven year term. How was Karimov elevated to the pin
07.11.2007 13:49 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
The death of Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov (Turkmenbashi the Great or life president of Turkmenistan) on December 21, 2006, generated a great deal of forecasts in the expert community and among journalists and politically active citizens. It even generated a lot of expectations and hopes for changes
02.11.2007 12:08 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
That was the question I heard most frequently while working as an observer during the October 21 referendum.
30.10.2007 15:03 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz official structures investigating assassination of prominent journalist Alisher Saipov remain tight-lipped on the progress made so far. Themselves reticent, they insist that the young and gifted journalist's colleagues keep their ideas and hypotheses to themselves as well.
29.10.2007 09:26 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
A three-year interim over, the Kyrgyz political system once again emulates the Russian political model typical of all Central Asian countries.
17.10.2007 12:28 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
Referendum on the new Constitution of Kyrgyzstan will take place come Sunday, October 21. The population has been all for amendment of the Constitution ever since the Tulip Revolution in March 2005 when the said amendment was one of the central slogans. For some reason, however, the new generation o
10.10.2007 12:26 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
All five officially registered political parties nominated their candidates for president of Uzbekistan. Dilorom Tashmuhamedova will run for presidency from the Adolat party, Ahtam Tursunov from Fidokorlar, Hoshid Dosmuhamedov from Milli Tiklanish, and Asliddin Rustamov from the People's Democratic
08.10.2007 12:15 msk Analytics Tajikistan
A colossal array of twelve state flags of CIS countries was installed on one of transport junctions in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, on the eve of three summits - those of the Commonwealth, Eurasian Economic Cooperation Organization, and CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization. The pyrami
08.10.2007 11:59 msk Analytics
Meeting of the Consortium for the Central Asian Border Security Initiative took place in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. The sixth meeting in all, it became the first ever on the territory of Central Asia (all previous meetings had been convened in European Union countries). The Consortium inclu
07.10.2007 21:37 msk Analytics
Experts on Central Asian affairs vividly discuss what is happening in the region, its nature, and potential consequences. Unlike in the 1990s, serious changes are a distinct possibility now.
24.09.2007 10:41 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Presidential election slated for December 23 is the talk of the day in Uzbekistan. Will Islam Karimov run for president again? How does he intend to circumvent Article 90 of the Constitution stating that one and the same person cannot be the president of the Republic of Uzbekistan more than two time
17.09.2007 11:34 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
Waiting for serious changes in Turkmenistan under its new President Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov, experts and commentators have been searching for and founding indications of a new course. Practically all of them decided that the reforms would be slow but irreversible and that the former system establ
17.09.2007 10:01 msk Analytics Tajikistan
President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon seconded the idea of a Central Asian Union at the talks in Dushanbe with the visiting President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev on September 13. Ferghana.Ru approached Ajdar Kurtov, an expert with the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies, for comments.
10.09.2007 09:12 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
Some serious political developments occurred in Kazakhstan in late summer. The list of the most important events includes criminal charges pressed against Rahat Aliyev (husband of president's daughter Dariga), dismissal of Timur Kulibayev (another presidential son-in-law) form the post of Samruk hol
31.08.2007 19:30 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek Press Club approached prominent Kyrgyz politicians and political scientists for their opinions on what should the country expect in the new political season this autumn. Here are several quite diametric forecasts.
27.08.2007 09:34 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
Nur Otan's total victory in the snap election of the Majilis (lower house of the parliament of Kazakhstan) on August 18 completed expulsion of the opposition from the national legislature. Ajdar Kurtov, an analyst with Asia Analysis Foundation, believes that the status quo was quite predictable and,
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