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30.03.2007 15:50 msk Politics Turkmenistan
President Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov was elected the head of the People's Council (Halk Maslahaty), the supreme legislative body in Turkmenistan.
27.03.2007 13:43 msk Kazakhstan Politics
Kasymjomart Tokayev, chairman of the upper house of the parliament of Kazakhstan, said addressing the Kokchetav regional maslihat or legislature that the national Constitution would be amended in 2008.
07.03.2007 13:55 msk Politics Uzbekistan
Evan A.Feigenbaum. Photo by Ferghana.Ru" Evan A.Feigenbaum, Assistant to the US State Secretary for South and Central Asia, visited Uzbekistan. Senior official of the US Department of State for Central Asian matters, Feigenbaum called a press conference on March 2 to sum up his three-day visit to Uz
12.02.2007 10:12 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan elected its president yesterday, for the first time in this century. The only previous such event took place in 1991 when Saparmurat Niyazov was elected the head of state. He eventually became known as Turkmenbashi the Great and passed away on December 21, 2006.
09.02.2007 14:25 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Turkmen voters will be electing their president the day after tomorrow. Nothing extraordinary is required or expected from them. They only have to visit their respective polling stations and underline the name of Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov in voting bulletins. (Berdymuhammedov is the man who has bee
07.02.2007 10:59 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Acting president and candidate for Turkmenistan presidency Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov set out to dismantle the Turkmenbashi's totalitarian regime without waiting for the outcome of the Sunday election. The latest reports from Ashkhabad indicate that several ex-senior officials were released from pri
22.01.2007 09:04 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Leadership of Turkmenistan does not have any objections to foreign observers' presence in the country in the course of election of the president. OSCE observers are expected in Turkmenistan. "We expect representatives of other international organizations as well," taciturn Foreign Minister Rashid Me
15.01.2007 12:56 msk Kazakhstan Politics
Attention of all of Kazakhstan was glued to the unprecedented staff shuffles in the upper echelons of state power last week. Nursultan Nazarbayev had key ministers change places and replaced leadership of the upper house of the parliament. Nurtai Abykayev, a political heavyweight, stepped down as ch
11.01.2007 11:53 msk Kazakhstan Politics
Ferghana.Ru approached a prominent Kazakh expert who agreed to comment on the latest staff shuffles in the upper echelons of state power. "Abykayev was number two man in Kazakhstan. This resignation now is his "punishment" for the death of opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbayev. Abykayev was replace
29.12.2006 21:53 msk Politics Turkmenistan
A delegate of the Halk Maslahaty (People's Council of Turkmenistan) who insisted on anonymity says that the Mary velajat or region will be run by security structures pending election of the president on February 11, 2007.
29.12.2006 12:09 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Russia's stand on Turkmenistan essentially comes down to its wish to see Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov elevated to president. Not because the Kremlin likes Berdymuhammedov but because the "legitimate heir" i.e. the Turkmenbashi's son is not in the Russian orbit.
26.12.2006 09:38 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Nurmuhamed Hanamov, one of the leaders of the Turkmen opposition and Republican Party chairman, told Vremya Novostei that Defense Minister Agageldy Mamedgeldyev and almost 120 civil servants were arrested in Ashkhabad yesterday. If there is even a kernel of truth in these reports, then analysts were
06.12.2006 13:44 msk Kazakhstan Politics
Nobody knows what country will chair the OSCE in 2009. Annual meeting of foreign ministers representing all 56 member states that ended in Brussels yesterday failed to come to an agreement. Kazakhstan aspired for the privilege, but... The OSCE voted to table the matter. The decision will be made at
04.12.2006 13:29 msk Kazakhstan Politics
Two-day session of the OSCE Council of Foreign Ministers opening in Brussels today is supposed to decide what country to choose for the chairman in 2009. Diplomatic sources claim, however, that the session will come up with no decision - because of Kazakhstan, one of the claimants for the privilege,
30.11.2006 17:51 msk Politics Russia
The first meeting of NATO leaders on the post-Soviet territory, the NATO summit that ended in Riga yesterday was the talk of the day for Russian and foreign experts. For the first time in the last fifteen years when NATO openly called Russia an enemy and proclaimed control over Russian energy resour
23.11.2006 19:38 msk Politics Russia
Players in the media market claim that Alisher Usmanov, business tycoon of Uzbek origin, bought Gazeta.ru.
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