 RFE/RL Central Asia Report 7/19/2010 7:59:07 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 . |
 Osh Protest Against International Police Several dozen demonstrators have rallied in the southern city of Osh, demanding that the government revise its approval for an international police force for Kyrgyzstan. More  Lessons In Morality In Eastern Tajikistan Schools have been closed for the summer holidays, but learning hasn't stopped for many children in the eastern Tajik valley of Rasht, a picturesque and remote mountainous area once known as a bastion of the country's Islamic opposition. More  Kyrgyz Want Charges In Website Case Kyrgyzstan's Prosecutor-General's Office has asked Kazakhstan to charge the owner of a Kazakh-based website and a journalist who writes for with "inciting interethnic hatred" More  Not A Very Happy Place Not a single Central Asian nation is among the ten of the happiest countries in the world. More  OSCE Stalls On Police Mission To Kyrgyzstan Ministers of OSCE member countries have voiced support for sending an international police mission to Kyrgyzstan following last month's deadly ethnic clashes, but have failed to make solid plans for the deployment. More  Tobacco Workers In Kazakhstan Face Exploitation, Child Labor A new report by Human Rights Watch documents the widespread exploitation of Kyrgyz migrant tobacco workers, as well the frequent use of child labor, on farms in Kazakhstan that supply tobacco giant Philip Morris International. More  OSCE Foreign Ministers Meet In Almaty On Kyrgyzstan Senior officials from OSCE member states are gathering for two days of informal meetings in Kazakhstan. Much of the attention will be focused on neighboring Kyrgyzstan. More  Kazakh Asylum Seeker 'Disappears' A Kazakh woman seeking asylum in Kyrgyzstan on a claim of religious persecution has gone missing. More  Missing Renew Tensions In Kyrgyzstan The Red Cross has warned that the fate of missing people has renewed tensions in southern Kyrgyzstan, the scene of deadly interethnic riots last month. More  U.S.-Kyrgyz Talks Focus On Stability U.S. President Barack Obama's chief adviser on Russia and Eurasia has been meeting in Bishkek with Kyrgyz officials and civil society leaders. More  HRW Warns Of Kyrgyz Abuses Human Rights Watch is warning that what it calls the ongoing arbitrary arrests and torture of Uzbeks by security forces in southern Kyrgyzstan could further destabilize the region. More  Kyrgyzstan Forms New Government Kyrgyzstan's President Roza Otunbaeva has formed a caretaker government that will run the country until parliamentary elections in October. More |
