Sunday 5th February, 2012

• Afghan rail link marksa break-out moment

  Asia Times

  By Fozil Mashrab TASHKENT - The commissioning last month of the 75-kilometer railway line from Hairatan on the Uzbekistan border to Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan is being hailed on both sides of ...

• Turkmenistan: Government Critic Targeted with “Godfather” Technique

  EurasiaNet

  Turkmenistan may already have a reputation for the surreal, but as presidential elections approach, one of the last remaining government critics is being harassed by someone with an occultist ...

• 'Alternative' fuel key tosurvival in Central Asia

  Asia Times

  By Farangis Najibullah Soaring fuel prices; electricity rationing; early snow - it's enough to send people scurrying for alternative ways to heat their homes and cook their meals. In ...

• Suspected spy rattles British secret state

  Asia Times

  By Mahan Abedin The case of alleged Russian spy Katia Zatuliveter has proven to be exceptionally embarrassing to MI5, the British security service, while her fight against deportation has ...

• Russia sidelined on eurocrisis

  Asia Times

  ridiculously inadequate, barely supporting the point that it is a part of the solution rather than the problem. Unsolicited advice about reducing budget deficits was hardly welcomed, but ...

• Security group stumbles forward

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in St Petersburg this week concluded with only a little progress in advancing a key infrastructure development ...

• Putin's red-hot dossier of liaisons

  Asia Times

  By RFE/RL The relationship between Russian Prime Minister and probable future president Vladimir Putin and his wife of 28 years, Lyudmila, has been alternately portrayed as a nightmare union ...

• Opening for Russia as Kievcompletes free-trade talks

  Asia Times

  By Pavel Korduban Ukraine has signed a free-trade agreement with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and completed its free-trade talks with the European Union. Unlike membership of ...

• EU eyes Kazakh gas

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger visited Kazakhstan last week for an international energy conference, where he invited the country to ...

• Azerbaijan may help Russia to create Naftalan oil treatment center

  News.Az

  A popular scientist, deputy director general of Siberian scientific center Ivan Nesterov asked representatives of Azerbaijani Diaspora to create Naftalan oil treatment center in Russian city of ...

• Azerbaijan Culture Ministry establishes administrative penalty procedure

  News.Az

  By Order #3 Culture & Tourism Minister Abulfaz Garayev has endorsed the Rules of Consideration of Administrative Violations by the Ministry of Culture & Tourism of Azerbaijan. The Order ...

• Moscow populism and the Great Game

  Asia Times

  Moscow populism and the Great Game By Uran Bolush Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their ...

• Uzbek success misses population

  Asia Times

  By Deirdre Tynan BISHKEK - Uzbek President Islam Karimov this month hailed the achievements of the Uzbek economic model, which is basically a retrofitted command system. But Karimov clearly ...

• US Secretary of State to meet President of Azerbaijan

  News.Az

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to meet President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. The meeting is due as part of the eighth session of the Munich security conference which started on Friday on ...

• Lithuanian officials to visit Azerbaijan

  News.Az

  Lithuanian Premier Andrius Kubilius and Foreign Minister Andronius Ajubalis are to visit Azerbaijan. The statement came during the meetings held by Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf ...

• Turkish PM to visit Azerbaijan

  News.Az

  Erdogan will attend next meeting of Azerbaijan-Turkey Strategic Council. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Azerbaijan this summer, Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic ...

• 4-magnitude quake hits Azerbaijan's Astara

  News.Az

  The 4-magnitude quake hit Azerbaijan's Astara region at 06.19 today. Republic Seismological Center of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences said that epicenter of quake fell to the 11 km ...

• Kazakhstan to buy four Boeing planes

  Itar Tass

  The air company Air Astana, the controlling block of shares of which belongs to the state, signed an agreement with the corporation Boeing on the purchase of four Boeing 767-300ER and three Boeing ...

• Anatolia gas pipeline races towards reality

  Asia Times

  By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - Competition in the Southern Gas Corridor from the Caspian Sea basin to Europe continues to heat up, with more details about the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline ...

• Rising terror group exploits Kazakh unrest

  Asia Times

  By Jacob Zenn The terrorist organization Jund al-Khilafah (JaK) is presenting President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan with one of the most critical tests of his 22-year presidency. ...

• Nazarbaev' calls Kazakh poll

  Asia Times

  well as high foreign direct investment (FDI) expected to represent 4% of gross domestic product (GDP). The S&P upgrade puts Kazakhstan one step above Russia for the first time in over six ...

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