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25.12.2006 11:20 msk Turkmenistan
The Financial Times reported last Saturday that the Turkmen authorities had $1.68 billion worth of gas export to Ukraine revenues in Deutsche Bank and that President Saparmurat Niyazov alone was allegedly in control of the bank account. Kommersant approached Vatan leader Hudaiberdy Orazov, former ch
25.12.2006 11:15 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
Saparmurat Niyazov, 66, the first and lifetime president of Turkmenistan who died last week, was interred in the family mausoleum in his native village of Kipchak. Well-informed and trustworthy sources in Ashkhabad maintain that Niyazov's circle of confidants was undecided on personnel composition o
22.12.2006 16:22 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
Aleksei Malashenko of the Moscow Carnegie Center:
22.12.2006 16:14 msk Turkmenistan
The president' sudden death stirred the political establishment and population of Turkmenistan and left everyone in turmoil. Some Ferghana.Ru news agency correspondents have friends and relatives in Turkmenistan, living there since we all lived in the Soviet Union. It is only understandable therefor
21.12.2006 10:31 msk Turkmenistan
Turkmen TV station reported "President Saparmurat Niyazov's sudden death". Lifetime President Niyazov, 66, has ruled Turkmenistan since 1985. He was also known as the Turkmenbashi or the Father of all Turkmens. Niyazov was the founder and president of the Turkmen World Association.
20.12.2006 12:22 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
Independence Day celebrated in Kazakhstan on December 15 was spoiled for the villagers of Druzhba, a settlement in Alma-Ata outskirts, by the rumors of impending pogroms of the local Uigur community. The pogroms never took place, fortunately, but the local population fears that they might occur the
20.12.2006 11:43 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
Local sources report the arrest of Andrei Lvovich Zatoka, environmentalist and member of the Council of the International Social-Environmental Union, in Tashauz airport in Turkmenistan on December 17. No information on Zatoka's current whereabouts is available.
20.12.2006 11:42 msk Business Turkmenistan
The European Union has taken another attempt to do away with Russian monopoly in gas deliveries from Central Asia. On December 18, President Saparmurat Niyazov met with EU Envoy in Central Asia Pier Morel and German Charge d'Affaires Astrid Wolf. Turkmen media outlets report that Morel commented on
20.12.2006 11:41 msk Business Kazakhstan
Kubanychbek Isabekov of the Jogorku Kenesh (national parliament) announced at his press conference in Bishkek that Kumtor gold miners had gone on a permanent strike.
18.12.2006 12:38 msk Turkmenistan
Law enforcement agencies of Turkmenistan are after suspected drug addicts and former inmates. The operation is under way in Ashkhabad and regional centers.
13.12.2006 18:54 msk Afghanistan Analytics
Two-day conference "Afghanistan and Regional Security: 5 Years After the Talibs" is taking place in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
13.12.2006 18:41 msk Business Tajikistan
According to the Tajik Economic Development Ministry, ministries and departments advise the government to give Norilsk Nickel the license to develop the silver deposit Bolshoi Kanimansur. The advise does not really mean anything. President Emomali Rakhmonov makes all decisions in Dushanbe, and Rakhm
08.12.2006 14:55 msk Human Rights Kazakhstan
The latest reports from Kazakhstan indicate that the Supreme Court confirmed sentences to murderers of opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbayev and his aides.
08.12.2006 14:10 msk Business Tajikistan
The Russian holding finances construction of the Sangtuda'1 Hydroelectric Power Plant. The Vahsh River will have to be dammed for the purposes of construction, and the output of other hydroelectric power plants will therefore go down. Die Deutsche Welle reports that all of the country is regularly l
08.12.2006 14:09 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
The state program that makes the population entitled to free electric power, gas, running water, and salt will continue in Turkmenistan until 2020 as Ferghana.Ru has already reported. Gundogar reports indicate that all of that has to be paid for all the same, because of the size of state allowances.
08.12.2006 10:09 msk Business Uzbekistan
President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov received Aleksei Miller of Gazprom on December 7, 2006. Karimov and Miller discussed bilateral cooperation issued and new joint projects.
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