Central Asia

24.05.2012 14:52 11 comments Bye-bye Gabala? Russia may quit Soviet-era radar Expressing its frustration over Azerbaijan’s new contractual conditions for Moscow’s future lease of the Gabala Radar Station, the Defense Ministry may be forced to walk away from the deal. Missile defense shield		19.05.2012 16:10 10 comments Tajikistan rejects ‘The Dictator’ Movie theaters in Tajikistan will not be showing Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest film, The Dictator. The state banned the film, having decided it will conflict with “local people’s mentality.”
10.03.2012 16:23 3 comments Restless Kyrgyzstan: Revolutionary poster child The Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan has experienced popular uprisings twice in less than 10 years, and long before the ongoing Arab Spring. The habit of having revolutions has already split up the multicultural Kyrgyz society.		25.02.2012 10:14 11 comments Kyrgyz headscarf of discord Can the state force Muslim women not to wear a veil in public? The debate is as hot in France and Turkey as it is in Central Asia’s Kyrgyzstan. The country is facing a rise of conservative Islam, with its restrictions, which worries many people.
21.02.2012 14:37 22 comments US attack on Iran will ‘shake everyone’ – CSTO chief The head of the Eurasian military-political bloc CSTO says that the US military strike on Iran would cause a deep crisis in the surrounding region and far beyond.		04.02.2012 09:52 3 comments Kyrgyz Islam: Embracing the future or breeding radicals? The Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan has its own unique brand of Islam. Now, it has opened its doors to more fundamentalist strains of the religion. But will it help defuse social tensions, or lead to radicalization and the erosion of freedoms?
25.01.2012 14:13 36 comments ‘Hurt Iran, and don’t stop hurting Russia’ Blasting Iran with new sanctions won’t stop the west from working with Iranian energy companies if the stakes are high enough, it seems. UK lobbyists have ensured that BP and others can continue a multibillion dollar gas project vying with Russia. Iran tension		16.01.2012 09:58 1 comment Threesome for new Kazakh parliament Kazakhstan is on the verge of a new political chapter. Exit polls show that three parties are heading into the lower house. Until now, the president's group held all the seats, and is still on course for a huge majority.
20.12.2011 18:25 3 comments CSTO talks tough on NATO The member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization released a strong message warning that European missile defense and unilateral military action may work to destabilize international security and strategic stability around the world. Russia-NATO relations		02.12.2011 09:28 6 comments Base-less: new Kyrgyz president wants US out Newly-elected Kyrgyz President Atambayev says he will shut down the key US military base in the country. Former President Bakiyev wanted to do the same, but changed his mind a year before a major uprising ousted him from power.
30.11.2011 16:55 1 comment Leader of Kyrgyz revolution nominated for Nobel Peace Prize The Kyrgyz Diplomatic Academy has nominated outgoing interim president Roza Otunbaeva for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.		22.11.2011 12:08 2 comments Tajik court releases jailed Russian and Estonian pilots A court in Tajikistan has ordered to release two pilots, citizens of Russia and Estonia, who were earlier sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for smuggling and illegal border crossing.
15.11.2011 16:30 1 comment Tajikistan softens stance on jailed Russian pilots Tajik prosecutors have filed a protest to the regional court against a lower court’s decision to send two pilots of Russia’s Rolkan Airlines to jail for eight-and-a-half years and asked for a milder sentence.		14.11.2011 13:35 3 comments Tajik ejections 'biz as usual' - Medvedev President Dmitry Medvedev has said that the recent deportation of illegal Tajik immigrants from Russia is not a one-off campaign and stressed that it will in future be carried out regularly.
09.11.2011 14:17 Russia takes jailed pilot's case to parliamentary level Russian Upper House speaker Valentina Matviyenko says her country intends to press Tajikistan for an explanation over the prison sentence handed down to Russian pilot Vladimir Sadovnichiy, who was found guilty of smuggling and other crimes.		01.11.2011 15:02 2 comments ‘Instability rooted in external support of extremism’ The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has named regions forming an “arc of instability” in the Caucasus and Middle East and, consequently, causing major concerns for the body.
01.11.2011 14:22 Base-hitter: New Kyrgyz leader wants US air base out Kyrgyz President-elect Almazbek Atambayev has announced that all military installations should be removed from airports serving the country’s capital, Bishkek.		30.10.2011 15:26 Kyrgyzstan’s political reboot The frontrunner in Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election, Almazbek Atambaev, has earned enough votes to claim victory. The election committee says the acting prime minister received more than 60 per cent of the votes.
26.10.2011 14:45 Fears of fresh bloodshed in Kyrgyzstan Tensions are rising in Kyrgyzstan as the country gears up for presidential elections on Sunday. Fears are growing of a repetition of the 2010 unrest when hundreds were killed in inter-ethnic carnage.		26.10.2011 13:01 3 comments ‘Eurasian Union not a phantom USSR’ There will be no attempt to resurrect the USSR, Kazakh President Nazarbaev has stated in an article devoted to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s proposal to create a Eurasian Union comprising Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

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