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 other post points us at the latest UN’s World Youth Report and informs about the Uzbek government’s practice of sending students to work in the cotton fields – taken if they can’t pay the bribe to evade the “service to the Motherland”.

Claire over at kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net posted her opening and calls for interested co-bloggers. You can contact Claire using information provided here.

Rico has posted his newest entry on turkmenistan.neweurasia.net, where he discusses the busy agenda of President-for-life Turkmenbashi. There is now a new anti-terrorist centre in Ashgabad.

Finally, Joel has a new post on georgia.neweurasia.net analysing the fall-out of a mortar incident last week in South Ossetia. Also, some people in Moscow seem to have gotten used to the fact of a Georgia without South Ossetia and Abkhazia.