Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan: Typhoid Outbreak Linked to Water Crisis

The latest epidemic is unlikely to be the last unless the country can upgrade its decaying network of water pipes.

21 Feb 05

The government is struggling to make safe decaying Soviet-era nuclear waste pits.

21 Feb 05

Huge quantities of old books are being pulped as a result of decrees forbidding their export and ideological purges of the country's libraries.

21 Feb 05

A long-running territorial dispute with Uzbekistan is fraying Kazak nerves.

21 Feb 05

Uzbek migrant workers are prepared to put up with rough treatment in Russia to escape the economic misery of their homeland.

21 Feb 05

Access to some of the world's cheapest and purest heroin has seen addiction rates soar.

21 Feb 05

Astana hopes support for US strategic goals will prompt Washington to turn a blind eye to flagrant persecution of opposition groups.

21 Feb 05

Prominent Washington analyst downplays Central Asia's strategic and geopolitical value.

21 Feb 05

The growing friendship between China and Tajikistan provokes unease in some quarters of this tiny Central Asian republic.

21 Feb 05

Government officials are increasingly reluctant to open up to foreign media.

21 Feb 05

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