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RFE/RL Central Asia Report 8/29/2011 9:19:17 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 .

 

Ramadan Confusion For Tajik Muslims Muslims in Tajikistan are not certain when Ramadan will end, and whether they must fast on August 30. More   Soviet-Era Marijuana Still In Demand Shared between Southern Kazakhstan and Northern Kyrgyzstan, Chu Valley has been one of the most infamous sources of marijuana in the former Soviet Union for as long as anyone can remember. More   Kyrgyz Vow Probe After Chinese Mine Workers Beaten The Kyrgyz government has promised a thorough investigation after three Chinese workers were beaten during a recent protest against a Chinese gold-mining project in the north of the country. More   Kyrgyz Man 'Shoots Four Compatriots' In Moscow Moscow police say a Kyrgyz citizen shot and wounded four fellow Kyrgyz in a cafe in the Russian capital. More   Kazakh Inmates' Relatives In Trouble For Gathering At Jail Dozens of relatives of inmates at a labor camp in southern Kazakhstan have been charged with "illegally gathering" at the jail where they feared the inmates were being mistreated. More   Slow Death In Kazakhstan's Land Of Nuclear Tests Twenty years ago, Kazakhstan closed a dark chapter in its nuclear history by officially shutting down the infamous Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in the northeast Kazakh steppe. Over a 40-year period, the Soviet Union conducted more than one-quarter of the world's nuclear tests at the site. Today, locals live with the lasting legacy of the horrendous tests -- birth defects, cancer, and deeply irradiated soil and water. More   Kyrgyz Release Nationalist Politician A Kyrgyz nationalist leader jailed for trying to overthrow the government has been released just four months into a four-year prison term. More   Will Tajikistan's Islamic Party See A Renaissance? As Tajikistan's Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) prepares to decide who will rule it for the next four years, a rift has reportedly emerged between party conservatives and so-called modern pragmatists. More   Tajik BBC Journalist's Arrest 'Irregular' Lawyers for a BBC journalist on trial in Tajikistan on charges of associating with a banned Islamic group say officials have acknowledged there were procedural violations during his arrest and detention. More   Kyrgyz President Says Elections Will Not Divide Nation Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbaeva has said that presidential elections scheduled for October 30 will not divide her country. More   Uzbekistan Launches Its Own Facebook, Except It’s Not For Everyone What most worries activists in Uzbekistan, though, is that the launch of Muloqot is merely a prelude to a ban of Facebook, which represents the global connected society the Karimov regime is so afraid of. More   RFE/RL Kazakh Reporter, Activist, Sued For Libel A rights activist and RFE/RL correspondent in Kazakhstan is being sued for libel after she alleged children at a special needs school were being abused. More   Kazakh Rapper Supports Workers Well-known Kazakh rapper Takezhan says he plans to perform a concert in the commercial capital Almaty in support of striking oil workers in the west of the country. More   Uzbek Airline Limits Tobacco Uzbekistan's national air carrier is telling passengers to limit the amount of "nos," or powdered tobacco, they take with them aboard flights More   Bishkek Protesters Demand Utilities Some 20 people picketed the Kyrgyz government building today to demand infrastructure for a settlement near Bishkek where they live and for their formal registration as residents. More   Kazakh Activist's Daughter Found Dead The missing daughter of an oil workers union activist in western Kazakhstan is reported to have been found dead. More   Senior Kyrgyz Security Official Resigns A senior Kyrgyz security official has stepped down in protest at what he says is his agency's transformation into a "tool" to protect top officials' interests. More   Kazakhstan Detains Uzbek Wanted For Religious Extremism Rights activists say another Uzbek citizen wanted by Tashkent on religious extremism charges has been detained in Kazakhstan and faces possible extradition. More   Kyrgyz Crime Figure Held In Russia A suspected member of a Kyrgyz criminal group has been apprehended near Moscow. Kyrgyz Interior Ministry spokesman Adyl Omorov told RFE/RL on August 24 that Kazbek Bilalov, 34, was arrested in the town of Zelenograd this week. More   Kazakh Web TV Journalists Link Inspections To Coverage A web-based television channel in Kazakhstan says it has been subjected to intrusive inspections because of its independent news coverage. More   Kazakh Jailed For Labor-Lawyer Protest A Kazakh activist has been jailed for 14 days for staging a protest demanding the release from jail of a labor lawyer who represented striking oil workers. More   Jailed Kazakh Activist Again Denied Transfer To Open Prison A Kazakh opposition activist jailed on hooliganism charges has again been denied a transfer to an open prison. More   Tajik Pop Star Among Amnestied Women Prisoners A Tajik pop star who helped her fiance escape police custody was among more than 100 women inmates freed under a prisoner amnesty. More   Kyrgyz Police Arrest Fourth Suspect In Death Of Kazakh Tourist Police in northern Kyrgyzstan have arrested a fourth suspect in the robbing and fatal beating of a Kazakh tourist. More   Kyrgyz Protesters Want Former Defense Minister Back In Custody Relatives of those who died during antigovernment protests in Kyrgyzstan last year are demanding former Defense Minister Baktybek Kalyev's return to detention. More   Two Kyrgyz Policemen Arrested In Connection With Beating Death Two policemen in southern Kyrgyzstan have been arrested in connection with the death of a Russian citizen who authorities say was beaten in custody. More   Tajik Authorities Demand Payment In Dollars For Hajj The Tajik authorities have announced that the price of the hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia this year has risen to $3,348, payable in dollars only. More

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Features United Russia 'Primaries' Seen As A Political Show The public part of the ruling United Russia party's selection of candidates for December's parliamentary elections appeared little different from a similar process four years ago. More   Slow Death In Kazakhstan's Land Of Nuclear Tests Twenty years ago, Kazakhstan closed a dark chapter in its nuclear history by officially shutting down the infamous Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in the northeast Kazakh steppe. Over a 40-year period, the Soviet Union conducted more than one-quarter of the world's nuclear tests at the site. Today, locals live with the lasting legacy of the horrendous tests -- birth defects, cancer, and deeply irradiated soil and water. More   Will Tajikistan's Islamic Party See A Renaissance? As Tajikistan's Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) prepares to decide who will rule it for the next four years, a rift has reportedly emerged between party conservatives and so-called modern pragmatists. More   Once Celebrated, World's 6 Billionth Baby Now Lives In Poverty In Bosnia On October 12, 1999, Adnan Nevic was born the world's 6 billionth citizen -- cradled by the head of the UN and recognized worldwide as a population milestone. But now he lives in poverty, with little support from the state or the outside world. More   News Comments Fan Karachi Bloodshed Fears A senior provincial minister in Pakistan has claimed that the biggest political party in Karachi is behind a wave of violence in the city and accused its leader of being a killer. More   Yemeni Navy Foils Suicide Attack Yemen's Defense Ministry has said the country's navy sank a speed boat suspected of carrying explosives as the small vessel approached a Yemeni warship. More   From Our Bureaus Ukrainian Opposition Considers Alliance Ukrainian opposition parties are discussing possible joint actions ahead of the new political season this fall. More   Man Detained In Azeri Exclave Dies Reports from the Naxcivan Autonomous Republic say a 31-year-old airport technician from the landlocked Azerbaijani exclave has been found dead at the Ministry for National Security after being accused of "working for Iran." More   Ramadan Confusion For Tajik Muslims Muslims in Tajikistan are not certain when Ramadan will end, and whether they must fast on August 30. More   Kyrgyz Vow Probe After Chinese Mine Workers Beaten The Kyrgyz government has promised a thorough investigation after three Chinese workers were beaten during a recent protest against a Chinese gold-mining project in the north of the country. More   Kyrgyz Man 'Shoots Four Compatriots' In Moscow Moscow police say a Kyrgyz citizen shot and wounded four fellow Kyrgyz in a cafe in the Russian capital. More   Kazakh Inmates' Relatives In Trouble For Gathering At Jail Dozens of relatives of inmates at a labor camp in southern Kazakhstan have been charged with "illegally gathering" at the jail where they feared the inmates were being mistreated. More   Charges Against Another Belarusian Activist Dropped Belarusian authorities have dropped charges against the campaign manager for a former presidential candidate who was being prosecuted over postelection protests. More   Kyrgyz Release Nationalist Politician A Kyrgyz nationalist leader jailed for trying to overthrow the government has been released just four months into a four-year prison term. More   Transmission Soviet-Era Marijuana Still In Demand Shared between Southern Kazakhstan and Northern Kyrgyzstan, Chu Valley has been one of the most infamous sources of marijuana in the former Soviet Union for as long as anyone can remember. More   Copy The Original: Was Apple Behind Bulgaria's First PC? More   Persian Letters Iranians Obsessed With 'Immoral' Websites On Ashura What kind of websites do you think Iranians in the capital visited most on Ashura, commemorated by Shi'a as a day of mourning for the martyrdom of Imam Hossein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad? More

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Information Clearing House Newsletter News You Won't Find On CNN August 29, 2011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names" - ~ Chinese Proverb = " He who recognizes no humanity in others, loses it in himself."-- author unknown = Take The Pledge "I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning." http://october2011.org/welcome === Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590" Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq:  4,792 www.icasualties.org/oif/ Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,697 = Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan Total Cost of Wars Since 2001 $1,242,055,656,228http://www.costofwar.com/ =   = Welcome to Colonialism 2.0 By Rakesh Krishnan Simha Ironically, it is when the West is weak that the emergent nations of Asia and Africa have reason to worry. Colonialism 2.0 isn't just a catchphrase; it is simple economics: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28977.htm === NTC Admits That the Fall of Tripoli Video Was A Fake? Video Did NATO and the NTC used fake video to manipulate public opinion about The fall of Tripoli? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28980.htm === In Case You Missed It Libyan Rebel Leader Spent Much of Past 20 Years in Langley Virginia Must read/watch - By Chris Adams Hifter lived in suburban Virginia outside Washington, D.C. Badr said he was unsure exactly what Hifter did to support himself. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27795.htm === CIA's Bay of Pigs Foreign Policy Laid Bare By Carol Rosenberg A once-secret CIA history detail how the American spy agency came to the rescue of and cut deals with authoritarian governments in Central America. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28978.htm === The Decade's Biggest Scam By Glenn Greenwald So compelling is fear-based propaganda, so beholden are our government institutions to these private Security State factions, and so unaccountable is the power bestowed by these programs, that even a full decade after the only Terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, its growth continues more or less unabated. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28983.htm === 9/11: Ten Years Later Americans Still Stupid and Vulnerable By Ted Rall In fairness to Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld and Bush's other leading war criminals, everyone else went along with them. The media refused to question them. Democratic politicians, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, cast votes in favor of Bush's wars. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28975.htm === The Election March of the Trolls By Chris Hedges We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two corporate political parties and elected office to fill the airwaves with inanities and absurdities until the final inanity-the 2012 presidential election. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28974.htm === Madison Ave. Declares 'Mass Affluence' Over By Sam Pizzigati The top 10 percent of American households, now account for nearly half of all consumer spending, and a disproportionate share of that spending comes from the top 10's upper reaches. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28976.htm === Revolution is a Potluck By Cindy Sheehan Back in the days of the Great Depression in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, "community" wasn't a concept, it was a reality-with longevity in residence, no TV box, and multi-generational homes-for better, or worse, we needed each other. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28981.htm === What's Going On With The Economy? By Mike Whitney Monday's report on consumer spending is a perfect example of how the media distorts the news to create a cheery narrative of "economic recovery". http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28985.htm === Give Karl Marx a Chance to Save the World Economy By George Magnus Policy makers struggling to understand the barrage of financial panics, protests and other ills afflicting the world would do well to study the works of a long-dead economist: Karl Marx. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28984.htm === First Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions in Secret Bailouts By Matthew Cardinale The first-ever audit of the U.S. Federal Reserve has revealed 16 trillion dollars in secret bank bailouts and has raised more questions about the quasi-private agency's opaque operations. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28979.htm === Mosque suicide bomber kills 29 at end of deadly weekend in Iraq: A SUICIDE bomber who blew himself up inside Baghdad's largest Sunni mosque yesterday killed 29 worshippers during prayers. http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/2413133 === Turkey Says Up To 160 Kurd Rebels Killed In Iraq Strikes: The Turkish General Staff said on August 29 that more than 100 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants were also wounded. The figures could not be confirmed. http://bit.ly/nLoXZ4 === Two policemen killed in Baghdad checkpoint attack: Two policemen were killed and another was wounded Monday by unidentified gunmen at a police checkpoint in eastern Baghdad, a local police source said, Xinhua reported. http://en.trend.az/regions/met/iraq/1924404.html === Female Trafficking Soars in Iraq: Prostitution and sex trafficking are epidemic in Iraq, where the violence of military occupation and sectarian strife have smashed national institutions, impoverished the population and torn apart families and neighbourhoods. Over 100,000 civilians have been killed and an estimated 4.4 million Iraqis displaced since 2003 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=104911 === 26 militants, 10 soldiers killed in Yemen: A new round of fierce fighting in southern Yemen killed 10 soldiers and 26 militants on Monday, the latest battle in a government campaign to retake territory from al-Qaeda-linked fighters. http://bit.ly/n2SJ9n === Human rights group suspects revenge killings in Libya: Evidence is emerging of revenge killings committed by both rebels and the regime army, which could provoke continuing violence. http://usat.ly/n8I5K0 === This is a bad time to be a black man in Libya: Channel 4 video report: http://bit.ly/oWu7bh === AU head: Libya rebels may be killing black workers:  Libyan rebels may be indiscriminately killing black people because they have confused innocent migrant workers with mercenaries, the chairman of the African Union said Monday, citing the fears as one reason the continental body has not recognized opposition forces as the nation's interim government. http://apne.ws/nBhUmb === UN 'plan for post-Gaddafi Libya' leaked: Document appears to reveal plans for UN's role in post-conflict Libya, including deployment of military observers. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/08/20118291127750603.html === NATO's dirty plan in Libya: It is the obvious success of traitors promoting NATO's interests, selling Libya to foreign powers. Many traitor regimes have established themselves by serving enemies interest. This is another such case. We should not be among the first fools to extend recognition to the NATO surrogates. Another country falls to western imperialism. http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=111418 === Anger simmers among pro-Qaddafi Libyans in Tripoli: "You media don't tell the truth, you're all traitors, spies," shouted a taxi driver, his face contorted in anger, not caring that nearby were armed and zealous rebels. http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article495241.ece === Unseen face of the Libyan conflict: Peel back the veneer of 'objectivity', and the media's record on the Libyan conflict is laid bare. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/187159/unseen-face-libyan-conflict.html === What I Learned About Libya: Video http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28982.htm === Gaddafi family are in Algeria, says foreign ministry: Muammar Gaddafi's wife Safia, his daughter Aisha and his sons Hannibal and Mohammed entered Algeria on Monday morning, Algeria's foreign ministry said. http://bit.ly/olEABM === Death of Gaddafi's son announced - again: Libyan rebels said one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons, Khamis, whose death has been announced several times since the conflict erupted, may have been killed a day ago in a clash with rebels. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10748108 === The Lockerbie bomber I know: Two years ago Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was controversially released on the grounds he was about to die. But this shadowy figure has survived to become a pawn in the Libyan conflict. John Ashton, who has long believed in his innocence, describes the man behind the myth http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/18/lockerbie-bomber-megrahi-libyan-conflict === Egypt seizes arms on Libyan border - TV: Egyptian border guards have seized a "large quantity" of weapons at the border with Libya, state television reported on Monday. http://bit.ly/nWypJl === Israel says Gaza gets arms from Libya: Palestinians in Gaza have acquired anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets from Libya during its six-month civil war, enlarging but not significantly improving their arsenal, Israeli officials said on Monday. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=416925 === Gaza teen dies from injuries sustained in Israeli airstrikes: A teenager in Gaza died on Monday after being seriously injured in an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahiya 10 days earlier, medics said. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=416937 === Palestinian Authority condemns Tel Aviv terror attack: Palestinian Authority releases statement condemning 'all attacks against civilians,' including Tel Aviv attack and IDF strikes on Gaza. http://bit.ly/oAnMXC === 6 killed in Syria raids on dissidents: Syrian security forces killed six people and wounded dozens on Monday in raids in the northwest and around the capital, as tanks rumbled into a village bordering Lebanon further south, rights groups said. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=416867 === Russia disagrees with western resolution on Syria: The draft resolution of the UN Security Council on Syria submitted by the USA and the EU lacks objectivity, declared Russia's permanent representative in the UN Vitaly Churkin in his interview for the Russia Today TV channel. http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/08/29/55353534.html === Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Syria: Calls in Syria for weapons, NATO intervention: Protesters in recent days have carried banners calling for a no-fly zone over Syria akin to the one that facilitated the Libyan revolt. "We want any [intervention] that stops the killing, whether Arab or foreign," said one banner held by protesters in the beleaguered town of Homs. http://wapo.st/nEaLZZ === Syria would be a quagmire for NATO, Iran says : - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has said that NATO will get bogged down in a quagmire if it launches a military campaign against Syria. http://bit.ly/n1Q5PD === Iran starts manufacturing enriched uranium: Iran has organized the manufacture of uranium enriched to 20% and is not planning to buy it abroad any more, Vice-President, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani said that Iran will not enrich uranium over 20%, which would enable it to make nuclear weapons. http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/08/29/55353590.html === The Iran sanctions fallacy: International sanctions have exacerbated the pain of the middle class struggling with high levels of unemployment. http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/20118238150723914.html === Three NATO occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan: The first soldier was killed in an insurgent attack, the second was killed by a roadside bomb and the third during an unspecified military operation, all Sunday, the Voice of America reported. http://bit.ly/pIRjvb === War criminal: Cheney: Bush authorized leak on Iraq: Dick Cheney writes in his forthcoming book, that he was surprised to learn that President George W. Bush had personally authorized a leak about Iraq strategy to a Washington Post columnist - a disclosure that the former vice president believed could be "a real disservice" to U.S. troops. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62185.html === War criminal: Powell: Cheney's Book Is Full of 'Cheap Shots': A visibly angry Colin Powell used an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday to blast former Vice President Dick Cheney for using "cheap shots" and "barbs" to drive up sales of his new memoir http://bit.ly/nOilMI === Ranger's widow expelled from Rumsfeld book signing: Two people were removed from a Donald Rumsfeld book signing Friday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, including the Yelm widow of an Army Ranger who blames the military for her husband's suicide. http://bit.ly/qd6NRO === IMF downgrades US economic forecast: If fear from the Fed that the economy was crumbling wasn't enough to raise a scare on Wall Street last week, now the IMF is also saying that the outlook on America isn't what it should be. https://rt.com/usa/news/imf-fed-economic-lagarde-389/ === A Tip for Joe the Machinist: Watch Your Back: The Booz analysts want America's Joe the machinists to swallow ever lower paychecks to help their U.S. corporate employers "keep up with intense competition" from elsewhere in the world. Yet they demand no similar sacrifice from U.S. corporate executives. http://bit.ly/nMqcZG === Children's School Lunch Price Rises, Sparking Fears Over Health: Children will have to pay up to 17 per cent more for their school dinners this year compared to last year, a survey has found. http://huff.to/op5Wb3 === Copper Thieves Leave I-95 In Palm Beach Co. In The Dark: More than 175,000 feet of copper wiring needed for the overhead lighting has been stolen from 18 sites in the last four to six months. Last week, West Palm Beach police last week urged motorists to call them or the Florida Highway Patrol if they see vehicle stopped near light poles. http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/08/29/copper-thieves-leave-i-95-in-palm-beach-co-in-the-dark/ === Youth Employment Rate Hits Record Low for July: "The combined impacts of the Great Recession and increases in the minimum wage in states and at the federal level have locked thousands out of the labor market," he said. http://www.newsmax.com/US/youth-employment-July-labor/2011/08/25/id/408710 === Police Let Flash Mob Loot 7-11 Video - A 7-11 in Montgomery County, Maryland was hit by a flash mob on August 13, 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHyug2PvpB8 === "Let us be peace and joy" Tom Feeley

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