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FEATURES  Western Media Getting Afghanistan Wrong The situation in Afghanistan is bad enough, but inaccurate reporting is adding to the problem. The main problem is that different interest groups, with different axes to grind, offer Western journalists lots of spin. But making sense of it all and arriving at the truth is something few reporters manage to achieve. More  Kyrgyz Courtroom Scenes Leave Justice In Jeopardy The term "public defender" has taken on a new meaning in some trials in southern Kyrgyzstan, where for some lawyers lately it has meant defending oneself against an angry public. More  World Concern Grows At Dwindling Chinese Mineral Supplies Concerns about Chinese control over the supplies of crucial minerals have been intensifying in recent months amid steady reductions in the country's export quotas, and grew further this week after reports of Beijing blocking shipments of those minerals to industrialized countries. More  French Senate Passes Pension Bill French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government has said it would use a special constitutional measure to speed the pension reform bill's through the Senate. Labor unions throughout France have responded by calling for an extension of antiausterity protests. More  Russia To Host Fresh Karabakh Talks The presidents of Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan are to meet next week for talks on resolving the long-standing dispute over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. More Twelve supporters of the United Kyrgyzstan party have started a hunger strike in Bishkek, demanding the party be recognized as having garnered enough votes to enter parliament. More  Kazakh Announces Presidential Hopes Vladimir Kozlov, the leader of Kazakhstan's unregistered opposition party Forward (Alga) has announced his intention to run in a presidential election scheduled for 2012. More Inhabitants of the village of Rassvet in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan are boycotting the national census to protest a lack of available drinking water. More  Armenian Suit Targets Vote Crackdown A senior Armenian opposition official says he does not expect a Yerevan court to accept a case filed by more than 100 supporters charging security forces with violations during protests two years ago that resulted in deaths and injuries. More  Former Armenian President Hopes for Prisoners Release Former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosian says he is optimistic that those of his supporters still serving prison terms for their participation in the post-election violence in March 2008 will be released very soon. More  Georgian Jail For Russian Trespasser Kazbeg Dzugkoev, who is from Vladikavkaz in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, was detained in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia earlier this month and sentenced on October 21. More  Will They Or Won't They?: WikiLeaks And The Next Data Dump It's been promised to be the biggest leak ever. More  Tajikistan: Freest Media Environment In Central Asia? Being ranked 115th in Reporters Without Borders 2010 Press Freedom Index may seem rather low. But Tajikistan's position is higher than all of its immediate neighbors. More A compelling photo essay from Neweurasia.net today about graffiti in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, which saw the outbreak of ethnic violence in June: More  China Launches Its Own Version Of Google Earth China is expanding the country's "sovereign internet" with the launch of a rival to Google Earth. More |
