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06.08.2007 11:43 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
The last month of the summer 2007 reactivated political life in Kyrgyzstan. Two prominent adversaries of the Kyrgyz regime are the talk of the day. They are Felix Kulov, former premier who became the opposition leader, and Bermet Akayeva, ex-president's daughter who insists on running for the parlia
05.08.2007 22:06 msk Analytics Tajikistan
Failure of the World Bank International Project on the Lake Sarez Risk Mitigation for 2000-2006. Russian version
12.07.2007 10:12 msk Analytics Tajikistan
Ph.d. in history, professor Alexander Knyazev gives his view of the results of International conference “Cooperation and integration Projects for Central Asia: comparative analysis, opportunities and prospects” that took place June 26-28 2007 Khudjand.
09.06.2007 12:38 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Ferghana.Ru continues its series of publications on transition to the Latin alphabet in Uzbekistan. Why would the authorities order it? What are the pros and cons of the new alphabet? Who is the Latin alphabet being incorporated into everyday life? Answers to these and other questions are given by U
04.06.2007 11:01 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan was the source of all political news in the post-Soviet zone last week. Scandalous as it is, "Rahat Aliyev's affair" seemed to push all other news into the background. In the meantime, Kazakhstan's aspirations for regional leadership are undeniably more important. Moreover, President Nurs
04.06.2007 10:06 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
Rahat Aliyev, 44, former Kazakh ambassador to Austria and representative at the OSCE better known as the husband of president's daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva, was arrested in Vienna last Friday. The arrest was authorized by the Austrian authorities. Official Astana had put Aliyev's name on the interna
30.05.2007 11:26 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
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23.05.2007 15:25 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
Nursultan Nazarbayev. Ferghana.Ru photo President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev signed the amendments to the Constitution that transformed the country into a presidential-parliamentary republic, cut down the term of office for president from seven to five years as of 2012, and granted the curre
21.05.2007 09:54 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
The news that the parliament of Kazakhstan permitted Nursultan Nazarbayev to run for president as many times as he decided to was broken when this correspondent was approaching Volga Cliff, the spa where the Russia-EU summit was to commence in an hour or two. The news was shocking. President for lif
15.05.2007 10:44 msk Analytics
President of Kazakhstan revived the idea of a closer integration of Central Asia countries all over again a short while ago. Apart from geographic closeness that is certainly a factor not to be dismissed, the process will be facilitated by historic and cultural sameness of the peoples living in the
02.05.2007 11:36 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
It was mostly Kyrgyzes - and mostly from the northern regions of the country at that - who participated in the opposition rallies in Bishkek between April 11 and 19. Why were representatives of other ethnic groups absent? (Not one report in the media mentioned their presence.) Are they completely in
28.04.2007 17:47 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
A stranger or foreigner in Uzbekistan will be hard pressed to tell what script in this country is official. All street signs from billboards to posters to signboards to road signs offer a staggering hodgepodge of languages and alphabetic notations. This period of an utterly unrestricted use of langu
23.04.2007 11:14 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
When protesters met the police with rocks on April 19, the protest rally in central Bishkek initially proclaimed as continuing was immediately dispersed. The Prosecutor General's Office opened a case (organization of mass disturbances). General public in the meantime took the developments in stride
02.04.2007 11:54 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
As far as the southern part of Kyrgyzstan is concerned, late March and early April this year are like early March 2005. The situation now is different from what it was like at the onset of the Tulip Revolution two years ago of course, but certain resemblance is nevertheless undeniable. The oppositio
26.03.2007 10:50 msk Analytics
Picture: fragment of the photo by M. Penson "Collective farmers on the Tashkent region set out for the Chirchik construction site", 1939
22.03.2007 19:33 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Rafik Saifullin Ferghana.Ru Galery Independent Uzbek political scientist Rafik Saifullin spoke at the Moscow Carnegie Center on March 21. Much as they wanted to, Moscow journalists and experts did not hear anything new from Saifullin. His speech lasted 1.5 hours but contained little by way of inform
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