Middle East

Niyazov Marriage Tax

Turkmenbashi insists foreigners pay high price for marrying Turkmen girls

21 Feb 05

Lack of education and employment opportunities consign Tajikistan's youth to the scrap heap

21 Feb 05

A school prize-giving ceremony has sparked a row after children received certificates featuring a portrait of a notorious Kurdish leader.

21 Feb 05

Political instability and poor facilities combine to put the dampners on the Kyrgyz tourist industry.

21 Feb 05

Kazaks question a government plan to invest much of the country's huge oil wealth abroad

21 Feb 05

Lead an alternative lifestyle in Almaty and you may well end up bribed, beaten or tortured

21 Feb 05

New threat to the roving traders who helped rescue the Uzbek economy following the collapse of Soviet rule.

21 Feb 05

Competition between Kazak tourist agencies is said to have sparked a war of words between Bishkek and Astana.

21 Feb 05

President Karimov is urged to alleviate the suffering of Uzbekistan's political and religious inmates.

21 Feb 05

Government claims success in its campaign to wipe out Hizb-ut Tahrir.

21 Feb 05

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