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Villagers living along a newly-drawn frontier fear they will lose out, whichever side they end up on.
Kazaks question a government plan to invest much of the country's huge oil wealth abroad
Women in Kazakstan are resorting to extraordinary measures to protest against social security fraud
Education officials remove "depraved" sex education book from the curriculum.
Bumper grain figures look too good to be true, as the president announces even higher targets for next year.
Police say independent journalist died in a tragic accident, but some insist the evidence doesn’t add up.
General Rakhat Aliev, keen to follow in his father-in-law Nursultan Nazarbaev's footsteps to the Kazakstan presidency, seems to know few limits when it comes to self-promotion
The president's goal of a 'drug-free century' remains only a fantasy.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/rca/rca_200108_64_1_eng.txt"> Uzbek Women Plead for Religious Prisoners</A><BR> By Saidjahon Zainabutdinov in Andijan (RCA No. 64, 10-Aug-01)</LI>
While Bishkek and Tashkent continue to downplay frictions, the increasing