Olga Reshetkova, a skier representing Kyrgyzstan in Winter Olympics 2010 in Vancouver, dropped out of the competition in the qualification of 1.5 km ladies’ individual sprint classic. Reshetkova, who is participating in Winter Olympics for …
The Kyrgyz government is planning to launch the “Kurultai of Harmony” on March 23, 2010, during which 750 community representatives throughout the whole of Kyrgyztan shall gather in Bishkek for direct dialogue with state officials. The Kurultai shall headed by Bakiev himself. It’s intended to to resolve several important problems, but will it really? neweurasia’s Kyryz Blogger counts down his reasons why the Kurultai is unnecessary and may fail.
During Soviet times, Kazakhstan was a rich tapestry of Asian and European ethnic groups. Recent census data suggests that this may be ending. neweurasia’s Mursya reports: “The numbers prophesy that Kazakhstan its European identity and increasing the share of its Asian one. If this trend continues unabated, then I predict we will see a very, very different Kazakhstan by 2030.”
Rustam Emomali, the eldest son of the Tajik President, is set to become deputy of the city parliament, his father’s ruling party has decided.
He was elected to the pro-state Youth Union last April, and to …
The bloggers of Kazakhstan were talking about children and the President Nazarbayev’s annual address to the nation.
Fergana.Ru was first to write [ru] about a fact that Uzbekistan has put a resitriction to Kyrgyz citizen to visit Uzbekistan more once in three months. Later, the Uzbek service of Radio Liberty reported [uz] from …
Turkmenistan’s leadership has been insisting that the country was not adversely affected by the global financial. There may actually be evidence to support this. However, as neweurasia’s Annasoltan reports, the Turkmen economy may actually be artificially bloated with a new round of unnecessary construction projects and debt, while the country’s leadership waits for hoped-for Chinese gold.
Despite widespread heroin use, especially among the young, drug addiction has been largely a taboo subject in Turkmenistan, its very existence denied by the authorities. But now the Turkmen president has taken the bold step of (implicitly) acknowledging the problem with a bold new initiative: using sports to kick the habit. But will it work? neweurasia’s Annasoltan reports.
Breaking news: Uzbek border guards say they were close to open fire killing 25 Tajik servicemen who, according to them, violated state borders of Uzbekistan and intruded to its territory in search of a lost cow. neweurasia’s Alpharabius reports.
neweurasia’s Dushanbe describes how a possible Ragnarok is building up between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan around the Roghun dam project. “Roghun is becoming an odd symbol of conflict between two countries with ancient roots of friendship and good will,” he writes. “How much longer before Uzbeks fear that Tajiks want them to be poor and Tajiks fear that Uzbeks want them to die of thirst?”
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