RFE/RL CENTRAL ASIA REPORT
22.04.2013
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 . |
 Interview: More About Tsarnaev Brothers And Their Ancestral Homeland What do we know about the Tsarnaev brothers -- the ethnic Chechens who are suspected of perpetrating the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15 that killed three people and injured 170 others -- and their ancestral homeland? RFE/RL Central Newsroom Director Jeremy Bransten sat down with Aslan Doukaev, director of RFE/RL’s North Caucasus Service, for some insight. More Two men identified as suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings are brothers of Chechen origin, raised in Kyrgyzstan, who moved about a decade ago to the United States. More  Kyrgyz Former Neighbors Talk About Tsarnaevs, North Caucasus Ties Following the death of one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings and the capture of the other, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service visited the ethnic Chechen family's former hometown to unravel their peripatetic background. More  U.S. Issues Country Reports On Human Rights Practices The U.S. State Department has released its "Country Reports On Human Rights Practices" for 2012, highlighting crackdowns on civil society, struggles for democratic change, and threats to freedom of expression. More  Uzbek Writer, Karimov Rival Freed Mamadali Mahmudov, a renowned Uzbek writer once seen as a potential rival to the country's entrenched president, has been released after spending 14 years in penal custody. More |
