Central Asia

Turkmen-Azeri Ties Stay at Low Ebb

Long-running dispute on Caspian oil reserves creates tensions which may ultimately harm Ashgabat more than Baku.

20 Nov 05

Is President Nazarbaev attempting to build a personality cult ahead of the next election?

20 Nov 05

Agricultural policies have led to a near collapse of the country’s farms.

20 Nov 05

Experts predict “small revolution” if Kazakstan gets the top position in the European grouping in 2009.

20 Nov 05

Veteran opposition figure wants an end to the controversial legislature, but the timing is all wrong for the new adminstration.

20 Nov 05

Uzbeks who fled massacre offered new life abroad, though fate of some remains unclear.

20 Nov 05

Donald Rumsfeld wins a temporary reprieve for the country’s military operations in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

20 Nov 05

Most of the Andijan refugees are on their way to a new life in the West, but the fate of 15 others remains unclear.

20 Nov 05

A month after alarming reports of multiple murder from the southwest city of Mary, no one is sure what really happened.

20 Nov 05

The president has tried to appropriate Islamic imagery and institutions, but his attempt to control all forms of religious expression could backfire.

20 Nov 05

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