RFE/RL CENTRAL ASIA REPORT
12/5/2011 5:59:45 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 . |
 Turkmenistan Bars Kazakh Activist From Leaving Country A prominent leader of the ethnic Kazakh community in Turkmenistan has been prevented from leaving Ashgabat to make a visit to Kazakhstan.More  Uzbeks To Change Presidential Terms Uzbekistan's Senate, the upper house of parliament, has adopted a bill that would change the term in office for a president back to five years instead of the current seven-year term. More  Five Militants Killed Near Almaty Prosecutors in Kazakhstan say five militants and two members of an elite police force have been killed in operations in southern Kazakhstan, amid concerns about rising Islamist unrest. More  Russian, Kyrgyz Muftis Confab The chief muftis of Kyrgyzstan and Russia met in Bishkek this week to discuss issues facing Kyrgyz migrant workers in Russia. More  Otunbaeva Mulls Life As Kyrgyzstan's First Official Ex-President Transitional Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbaeva has stepped down to make way for her elected successor. Otunbaeva stepped in to guide the country through a period of deep unrest knowing she would not be able to run for reelection. Now many are asking: what next? More  Russia Patriarch Kyrgyz Visit Delayed A planned visit to Kyrgyzstan by the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill I, has been postponed again. More  Kyrgyz Politician Refuses Award A Kyrgyz politician has said he will not accept the "Manas" medal he was awarded by outgoing President Roza Otunbaeva this week. More For years, Uzbek authorities have denied widespread reports that children are sent to the fields to pick cotton every harvest season. Now viewers can see for themselves, thanks to video footage collected by human rights activists. More  Survey Finds Endemic Corruption Corruption in politics and the public sector has become increasingly entrenched in the world, helping to fuel a year of unprecedented protest. That's according to the latest report from the watchdog group Transparency International, which tracks perceived levels of corruption in 182 nations. More  New Kyrgyz President Urges Unity Almazbek Atambaev is inaugurated as president in the first peaceful transition of power in Kyrgyzstan's post-Soviet history. His first message is a call for ethnic harmony and political unity. More  Outgoing Kyrgyz President Apologizes For Failure To Prevent Deadly Ethnic Clashes Outgoing Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbaeva has publicly apologized for her failure to prevent deadly ethnic clashes in the country last year. More Kazakhs Sentenced In Prison 'Riot' More than a dozen inmates at a labor camp in northern Kazakhstan have been sentenced for organizing a riot in the camp last year. More Kazakh Court Upholds Drugs Sentence The Kazakh Supreme Court has upheld the 10-year jail sentence given to a man whose mother self-immolated herself in protest. More  Kyrgyz Postpones Uzbek Activist's Appeal The Kyrgyz Supreme Court has postponed until December 20 hearings into a local Uzbek human rights defender's appeal against his life prison term. More  Kyrgyz Mama's Boy Wins 'Czecho-Slovakia's Got Talent' Horace Greeley, the nineteenth-century New York newspaper editor, was almost certainly thinking strictly of Americans when he advised the young and the footloose among his readers to “go West, young man.” But now it seems that one young man from Kyrgyzstan has won a uniquely 21st-century kind of triumph by adhering rigorously to Greeley’s advice. More |
