Sunday 29th January, 2012

• Kazakhstan stirs terror nests

  Asia Times

  By Jacob Zenn After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the people of Kazakhstan, like those in the rest of the former Soviet Republics, experienced a revival in religious affiliation. In ...

• Bear nettles the eagle, dragon smiles

  Asia Times

  The response is strongly worded, no doubt, and four things must be noted. One, this has been a rare personal accusation of Clinton herself for inciting instability in Russia. Two, Putin segregated ...

• An Uzbek struggle in name only

  Asia Times

  An Uzbek struggle in name only By J Z Adams The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) in November released on its website, alfurqon.com, a list of its "martyrs" of 2011. The most ...

• Caspian pact remains elusive

  Asia Times

  By Sergei Blagov The Caspian nations have reiterated earlier promises to seek a consensus-based settlement, but they apparently have failed to resolve their differences. As a result, the ...

• More than 1,000 prisoners in Kyrgyzstan sew lips together

  Star-Telegram

  The Associated Press BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- More than 1,000 prisoners in Kyrgyzstan have sewn their lips together, a grotesque act that inmates describe as a protest of their dismal ...

• Prisoners on hunger strike in Kyrgyzstan sew up their mouths

  The Independent

  The protest, which involves more than 10 per cent of the country's prison population, has escalated an ongoing hunger strike. According to witnesses, most of the prisoners are able to drink ...

• Russia to supply S-400 systems to Belarus, Kazakhstan after 2015

  Itar Tass

  MOSCOW, January 28 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia will start supplying S-400 Triumf air defence systems to Belarus and Kazakhstan after 2015 when its own new plants launch serial production of ...

• How Imperial Russia wooed Asia

  Asia Times

  How Imperial Russia wooed Asia Russia's own Orient: The politics of identity and Oriental studies in the Imperial and early Soviet periods by Vera Tolz Reviewed by Dmitry Shlapentokh The ...

• Putin piles on Arctic pressure

  Asia Times

  By Stephen Blank Russian foreign policy under Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is increasingly resorting to gunboat diplomacy. However, another key element in Putin's agenda has been his ...

• Kazakhstan: Opposition Leaders Jailed After Almaty Rally

  EurasiaNet

  More leaders of Kazakhstan's beleaguered opposition were imprisoned after holding an unsanctioned protest rally in Almaty today. OSDP party co-leader Bolat Abilov received an 18-day sentence, ...

• Opposition rally organizers jailed in Kazakhstan

  The Seattle Times

  Some 300 opposition activists staged a rare rally in Kazakhstan's commercial capital Saturday to protest recent elections and the violent suppression of a group of oil workers. Hours later, ...

• Six traffic accidents on Saturday night in Azerbaijan

  News.Az

  Chief of public affairs department of the State Traffic Police Office colonel-lieutenant Vagif Asadov warned drivers of dangerous driving conditions. He urged all drivers to drive slowly and ...

• Kazakhstan opposition holds rare protest rally

  CTV

  ALMATY, Kazakhstan -; Hundreds of opposition supporters protested the results of recent elections and the violent suppression of an oil workers protest at a demonstration Saturday in ...

• Rare anti-Nazarbayev protest in Kazakhstan

  Breitbart

  Hundreds of demonstrators on Saturday defied a heavy police presence to stage a rare protest in Kazakhstan against strongman President Nursultan Nazarbayev and the conduct of legislative ...

• Azerbaijan's football team to play Singapore

  News.Az

  One more opponent of Azerbaijan's football squad has been declared for a friendly. Our team is to meet Singapore in Dubai on 24 February. On 29 February Azerbaijan is to play Palestine. ...

• Azerbaijan succeeds in achieving total livestock increase in cattle breeding

  News.Az

  In 2011 Azerbaijan succeeded in achieving minimal increase in total livestock in cattle breeding- by only 0.37%. According to State Statistical Committee by early 2012 black cattle livestock in the ...

• Georgia plans grand new port

  Asia Times

  By Nino Kharadze The vibrant Black Sea port of Lazika, with half a million residents making it second only to Tbilisi, is the economic powerhouse of western Georgia. Or at least that is the ...

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