 RFE/RL Central Asia Report 7/12/2010 6:28:16 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about the five countries of Central Asia. For more stories on Central Asia, please visit and bookmark our Central Asia page . |
 Kyrgyz Officials Resign To Run In Vote Two deputy chairmen of Kyrgyzstan's interim government have announced their resignations so they can campaign for the upcoming parliamentary elections. More  Kyrgyz Protesters Block Highway Dozens of women have blocked Kyrgyzstan's Osh-Bishkek highway demanding the immediate release ofrelatives who were jailed last month in connection with the country's deadlyethnic unrest More  Tajik Official Denies Ties To Company A Tajik government official who also is the son-in-law of President Emomali Rahmon has denied having any links to a private firm that collects tolls on a major road in Tajikistan More  A Tajik Peace Recipe For Kyrgyzstan? If the Kyrgyz interim government is looking for an immediate example of how to get the mending process going, it need not look any farther than its southern neighbor, Tajikistan. In 1997, following the end of a five-year civil war, Tajikistan faced a similar test. More  Turkmenistan Mulls Independent Media People in Turkmenistan -- where all media is state-controlled -- may soon be reading privately-owned newspapers and magazines. More  Kyrgyzstan: Violence Cost $71 Million Kyrgyz officials say recent ethnic violence in the south of the country caused some $71 million worth of damage. More  Tajiks Hand Over Kyrgyz Terror Suspects A Kyrgyz police official says two men detained by Tajik law enforcement officials and returned to Kyrgyzstan are members of terrorist groups More  Tajik Air In Fuel-Debt Dispute Flights by the state airline Tajik Air from Dushanbe to various domestic and Russian destinations were delayed for more than 10 hours on July 8 because the company that provides gas refused to refuel Tajik Air's planes More  Kyrgyzstan Names New Interior Minister Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbaeva has named Kubat Baibolov as the country's new interior minister. More  Kazakh Man Circumcises Himself To Honor President's 70th Birthday He could have just got him a card. Or composed a song or something. A Kazakh performance artist, Kanat Ibragimov, has had himself circumcised in honor of his President Nursultan Nazarbaev's 70th birthday More |
