Central Asia

Azeris Hit by Gas Shortfall

A wrangle between Russian suppliers leaves Azerbaijani consumers cold.

4 Mar 04

Sixty years on, there will be little public commemoration of the Stalinist deportations of the Chechen people.

21 Feb 04

A dispute is still raging over how many Ingush refugees deserve the right of return to North Ossetia.

29 Jan 04

America is strongly backing a move to end Russia’s military presence in the republic – possibly so it can then send in its own personnel.

22 Jan 04

President-elect Saakashvili begins to confront Georgia’s economic collapse and endemic corruption.

8 Jan 04

Ordinary people face a double blow from new taxes on imported goods and creeping rises in the price of bread.

8 Jan 04

After eight years an environmental convention on the Caspian Sea has been signed - but what will it mean in practice?

13 Nov 03

Georgian security officials fear their country could become a hub for Afghan drug shipments.

31 Oct 03

A small group of Meskhetian Turks have made their home in Georgia, barely noticed by their neighbours.

9 Oct 03

Small republic increasingly powerless to withstand surge in heroin trafficking.

29 Aug 03

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