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• Uzbekistan: Tashkent, a green city. Or not?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Old trees are cut down in the center of Tashkent – the shocking news was spread in the city within a day. Photo by goricvet Planetrees, or platanus, planted at the end of the 19th century, were cut down in the public garden named after Amir Temur (Tamerlane) in Tashkent last week. As officials say , the ...
  17 hours ago

• Georgias President Saakashvili in photos by Thomas Dworzak

  
  Kaukasus — Authority: 134
  
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• PUBLICATION: Turkey, Russia and the Caucasus: Common and Diverging Interests (chathamhouse.org.uk)

  
  GEORGIA & SOUTH CAUCASUS — Authority: 140
  Briefing PaperGareth Winrow, November 2009Download Paper hereAnkaras rapprochement with Moscow has come under question after the August 2008 Russo-Georgian conflict. Turkish officials had believed that they shared common interests in preserving the territorial integrity of states in the Caucasus.The effectiveness of ...
  2 days ago

• PHOTOGRAPHY: Edward Burtynskys Oil at the Corcoran, part two

  
  GEORGIA & SOUTH CAUCASUS — Authority: 140
  Edward Burtynskys photographs about our reliance on oil (on view now at the Corcoran) include a kind of trap. The pictures are beautiful. A Burtynsky picture of the landscape near extraction facility outside Fort McMurray, Alberta, looks like a classic Western landscape, complete with big sky, a reflection of a ...
  2 days ago

• New Military Doctrine to Allow Preemptive Nuclear Strike

  
  The Other Russia — Authority: 517
  Russia may carry out a preemptive nuclear strike in a situation critical to its national security, according to a revamped version of Russia’s military doctrine that will be published by the end of the year. In an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta on November 20, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said ...
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• Kazkahstan: Astana Cycling Team Is Back to Life

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  KZBlogs post is about some good news about the cycling team Astana after losing two premier cyclists and a long period of doubt over funding.
  3 days ago

• Kyrgyzstan: Prices for utilies are skyrocketing

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Aravanski reports that the Kyrgyz government sharply increased the prices for electricity and heating, making those barely affordable by most citizens.
  3 days ago

• Turkmenistan: Influenzastan

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Has Turkmenistan come down with a bad case of the swine flu? Annasoltan investigates that in a series of post on Turkmen healthcare.
  3 days ago

• Uzbekistan: Presidential daughters self-promotion

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Musafirbek writes about a charity gala-concert, held with the support of UNICEF, attended not only by singer Cesaria Evora and soccer player Samuel Eto’o, but also by some bloggers, who were hired by an American PR firm to cover the event.
  3 days ago

• Afghanistan: US opens new prison

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Nick Fielding reports that the US military unveiled a new $60 million prison at Bagram airbase, north of the Afghanistan capital Kabul, saying it would provide detainees with better conditions and also promote transparency.
  3 days ago

• Afghanistan: Counting the cost of war

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Nick Fielding reviews “The Cost of War: Afghan Experiences of Conflict 1978-2009″, a report by nine NGOs working in Afghanistan analyzing 30 years of war and a devastating impact they had.
  3 days ago

• Mongolia: Edurelief project “Laptops for Teachers”

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Radigan Neuhalfen writes about new program “Laptops for Teachers”, aimed at promotion of education in Mongolia.
  3 days ago

• Afghanistan: UK tends to quit

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Dafydd talks about the slump of the Afghan campaigns popularity among the British public, media and officials - ahead of upcoming elections in the United Kingdom.
  3 days ago

• Uzbekistan: Authorities Free Sanjar Umarov

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Noah Tucker reports that Sanjar Umarov, one of the most famous political prisoner in Uzbekistan, earlier charged with tax evasion and embezzlement after founding an opposition party in 2005, has been released from prison.
  3 days ago

• Kyrgyzstan: A power play beginning?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Steven_Schwerbel reviews the developments on the opposition side of the Kyrgyzstans political field, where the major opposition party blamed the president for violation of constitution and unlawful seizure of power through the change of constitution.
  3 days ago

• Kazakhstan: A Beacon of Anticorruption Activity?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Alexander_Visotzky reflects on the recently released Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, in which Kazakhstan leaped 25 spots from 145th to 120th.
  3 days ago

• Kyrgyzstan: President consolidates his rule

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Kyrgyz President Bakiyev promoted his son to lead the Central Agency on Development, Investment, and Innovation, which controls both all FDIs and major national companies, thus consolidating his patronage network, Elina Galperin writes .
  3 days ago

• Afghanistan: Corruption, corruption

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 725
  Peter Marton reacts to the news that the US could start holding Afghanistan’s government accountable for corruption by withholding money for projects, and says that corruption in this country often is a consequence of the US policies.
  3 days ago

• NagornoKarabakh: danger in the Caucasus

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  Telegraph View: The future of NagornoKarabakh carries serious implications for Turkeys role in the Caucasus and by extension its bid for EU membership for the supply of oil and gas to the West and for Armenias crippled economy.
  3 days ago

• Caucasus News Update – First batch of Chechen pilgrims arrives to Saudi Arabia (MENAFN)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 461
  First batch of Chechen pilgrims arrives to Saudi Arabia (MENAFN) First batch of Chechen pilgrims arrives to Saudi Arabia Azerbaijani and Armenian presidents to meet on November 22 (TurkishPress.com) The Karabakh dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia has strained ties between the two countries. Promises on Democracy ...
  4 days ago

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