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Ethnic Uzbeks Opt Out of Turkmen Polls

Many feel alienated by election process and do not plan to lend their votes to anyone.

Land Audit Planned for Desert State

Fears of Mass Return of Migrant Workers

The global economic crisis is beginning to result in job cuts in Russia and other countries where hundreds of thousands of Tajiks have found work, leading to fears they will return home en masse.

Make Your Own Power Station

While the focus in Kyrgyzstan is often on ambitious hydroelectric projects like the Kambarata dam, water-powered turbines of more modest proportions are quietly whirring away in the background.

Kyrgyz Builders Fear Compatriots' Return

As it becomes clear that Russia will no longer host as many migrant workers as before because of the economic downturn, reporter Almaz Turdubaev investigated how this would impact the job market inside Kyrgyzstan.

All You Can Eat for 25 Dollars

In this report, Akan Imanov went shopping to find out how people survive on a food budget of 1,000 soms a month.

Turkmen Election Reveals Depressingly Familiar Abuses

Journalism Still a Dangerous Profession in Uzbekistan

Armenia: Quake Victims Bitter at Empty Promises

Twenty years after disaster, many in north of country remain homeless.

Kurds say Property Law Discriminatory

(12-Dec-08)