Not too much activity on the neweurasia blogs as the week goes by. We are still recruiting bloggers, most ardently over at uzbekistan.neweurasia.net and kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net
There is also a new call for bloggers on this site. …

A couple of new posts from around our blogs:
Claire at kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net has posted a comprehensive news roundup, covering the main stories in Kyrgyzstan these days. For all of you that need a little familiarisation with …

Marianna has her latest Azerbaijan Election Watch online. In focus this time are continuing protests in Baku – protests that increasingly turned violent. Marianna has also a discussion going in the comments section.
Olesya over at …

Sven forwarded an Email from the AP newswire. I can’t find it online yet, though.
(…)Kazakh Police Break Up Almaty Protest, Hold 67 Activists 2005-10-06 03:21 (New York) — Kazakh police Thursday forcibly broke up a …

Olesya over at uzbekistan.neweurasia.net has commenced posting, putting up two entries related to youth and education in Uzbekistan. The first discusses new regulations keeping students away from conferences that are co-sponsored by international organisations. The …

Adil Soz reports that two staff member of the “Altyn Gasyr” newspaper have been severely assaulted. Kazhymurat Abilkaliyev, assistant editor, was attacked by four unidentified men distributing copies of his paper. A volunteer named Azamat …

Welcome to the neweurasia blog homebase. While we’re still busy setting up our nascent project (mostly technical work), there is already activity on many of our country blogs
Turkmenistan:
Rico over at http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net has commenced posting last …