RFE/RL CENTRAL ASIA REPORT
20.05.2013
A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about the five countries of Central Asia.HOW KITSCH ARE YOU? TAKE OUR EUROVISION QUIZ TO FIND OUT! For more stories on Central Asia, please visit and bookmark our Central Asia page . |
 Daughter's Film Touts Kazakh President’s Green Credentials New York film buffs can get a taste of Eurasia this week as the New York Eurasian Film festival opens. Among the offerings -- a film touting Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev’s role in spearheading green development as a solution to a “worldwide crisis.” The producer of the film is none other than his youngest daughter, Aliya Nazarabeva. More  In Kazakhstan, Spending Saturday Night In The Gulag A museum of the Stalin-era prison camp system in central Kazakhstan has given visitors a night-time tour, where they were "treated" to prison meals and a performance of mock interrogations.More In Kazakhstan, Spending Saturday Night In The Gulag A museum of the Stalin-era prison camp system in central Kazakhstan has given visitors a night-time tour, where they were "treated" to prison meals and a performance of mock interrogations. The unusual visit on the night of May 18 was organized by the Museum of Political Oppression in Dolinka. The central town became infamous in the 1930s as the center of the Qaraghandy Corrective Labor Camps system (KarLAG). More  Former Tajik Industry Minister Arrested Tajik businessman and former Industry Minister Zaid Saidov and several Tajik businessmen and academics had recently announced the creation of the New Tajikistan political party. More  EU Raises Case Of RFE/RL Turkmen Correspondent A European Union delegation has raised with Turkmen officials the case of a detained RFE/RL correspondent. More Local police chief Malik Nurdinov told RFE/RL the clashes took place in the village of Safid-Bulan late on May 16. More  Sweden Plays Eurovision Host, With Main Sponsor Mired In Scandal The multinational musical glitzfest known as Eurovision holds its final in Sweden. But the main sponsor of this year's contest raises eyebrows for its ties to human rights abuses in the former Soviet Union. More  Chinese Mining Company Operations In Kyrgyzstan Blocked By Protesters Operations by the Chinese gold mining company Kaidi have been blocked by hundreds of protesters in Kyrgyzstan's southern Chon-Alai district. More  Kyrgyzstan Bans Zhirinovsky Kyrgyzstan’s parliament has declared Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky persona non grata and banned him from entering the country. More  Treatment Of Kazakh Reporter Criticized Kazakhstan's Bureau for Human Rights has criticized authorities for placing a journalist in a psychiatric clinic. More The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on May 11 in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Balochistan Province that killed six people and injured more than 60. More  U.S. Envoy Hails Kyrgyz Partnership The U.S. ambassador to Bishkek, Pamela Spratlen, says her country is proud of its partnership with Kyrgyzstan. More  Kazakh Journo's Suspected Attackers On Trial Lukpan Akhmedyarov, a reporter for the "Uralskaya nedelya" weekly, was left in serious condition when he was stabbed and shot with an air pistol in April 2012. More  Andijon Anniversary: HRW Slams Tashkent Eight years after what has become widely known as the "Andijon massacre," " Human Rights Watch says Uzbekistan remains a human-rights disaster." More |
