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 | | Afghanistan, which had served as a haven and source of support for Al-Qaeda, under the protection of Mullah Omar and the Taliban, was the target of a U.S. invasion in 2001, and ongoing reconstruction and drug-eradication efforts. | | | Turkey has some influence because of the ethnic and linguistic ties with the Turkic peoples of Central Asia, as well as serving as an oil pipeline route to the Mediterranean. | | | Eurasia Daily Monitor — political, strategic, and economic news from Central Asia. |
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| | U.S. Policy in Central Asia and the War on Terrorism |
| | When citizens, and especially youth, feel that they have a voice in how they are governed, when they believe that they have an economic stake in the future, then they are less likely to be attracted to a radicalized path cloaked in Islam that offers a utopian solution to their discontent. | | | The steps we have taken to greatly enhance our ties with the countries of Central Asia have been taken because they are in the U.S. national interest. | | | Press freedoms are suffering in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, the two most politically advanced states in Central Asia. |
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| | Asia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This may be contrasted to a similar etymology proposed for Europe, as being from Semitic erēbu "to enter" or "set" (of the sun). | | | These etymologies presuppose an originally Mesopotamian or Middle Eastern perspective, which would not explain how the term "Asia" first came to be associated with Anatolia as lying west of the Semitic speaking area. | | | This article does not cite its references or sources. |
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| | Central Asia Public Announcement |
| | Previous terrorist attacks conducted in Central Asia have involved the use of improvised explosive devices and suicide bombers and have targeted public areas, such as markets, local government facilities, and the U.S. and Israeli Embassies in Uzbekistan. | | | Elements and supporters of extremist groups present in Central Asia, including the Islamic Jihad Group, Al-Qaida, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), and the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, have expressed anti-U.S. sentiments in the past and have the capability to conduct terrorist operations in multiple countries. | | | The U.S. Government continues to receive information that terrorist groups in Central Asia may be planning attacks in the region, possibly against U.S. Government facilities, Americans, or American interests. |
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| | Winds of Change.NET: Nathan's Central Asia "-Stans Summary": 2003-11-19 |
| | Crisisweb reports that in Central Asia, where half the population is under 30, youth are being lost and that there is a long list of needs that must be addressed. | | | No mention of Central Asia in his recent speech, however. | | | Following this probably unrealistic assessment, Afghanistan& government claimed that al Qaeda is trying to draw US forces away from Iraq by opening a new front in Afghanistan. |
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| | The Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University |
| | The International Crisis Group has released a Central Asia Briefing,'Recent Violence: Causes and Consequences,' which may be viewed at their website. | | | Information and Analytical Center "Eurasia", in English and Russian, is a good source for independent coverage of politics and news in Central Asia. | | | World News Report is an online magazine has an Asia section that allows the reader access to news about various countries of Central Asia and the Azerbaijan |
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| | China pushes into Central Asia for oil and gas |
| | Underlying the pipeline project and the long-term orientation toward Central Asian oil and gas is China's exponential rise in energy consumption. | | | Driven by a burgeoning demand for energy, the Chinese government has made securing access to the largely untapped reserves of oil and natural gas in Central Asia a cornerstone of its economic policy for the next two decades. | | | The South China Morning Post commented after the last summit of the group in July: “If anything is going to bring the two countries and their two economies closer, it is Russian exports of its vast oil and gas wealth”. |
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| | The findings on Central Asia are part of the latest UNAIDS report released ahead of this week's conference. | | | The UNAIDS report pointed out that the epidemic was growing in Kazakhstan. | | | PAKISTAN: UNODC to launch HIV/AIDS prevention programme in prisons, |
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| | Registan.net :: Central Asia News |
| | Kyrgyzstan’s post-revolution government lurches from crisis to crisis in the face of worsening political violence, prison revolts, serious property disputes and popular disillusion. | | | Via neweurasia, I see that Freedom House’s Freedom in the World 2006 (PDF) is out. | | | International Crisis Group has just released a new report, Kyrgyzstan: A Faltering State (Asia Report No. 109), and it’s not looking very positive at all: |
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| | A number of ambitious projects have been launched, each of which is focused on establishing networks of effective transportation in countries of the Black Sea and Central Asia. | | | The extension offers huge potential for Russia, which has turned to Iraq as a Middle Eastern counterbalance to its lost influence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. | | | Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev made an official visit to the ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia and put his signature on an agreement of political and economic cooperation between the two countries, which includes transit of goods through Kyrgyzstan. |
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| | Central Asia Unveiled @ nationalgeographic.com |
| | A catalog of Central Asian materials on the Web, including history, culture, geography, politics, economics, travel, and religion. | | | Connect with various articles, op-ed pieces, and interviews from experts on Central Asia. | | | The name was meant to indicate the areas inhabited by Turkic people, yet this region also contained other ethnic groups such as the Tajik, and didn’t encompass some Turkic people of the former Ottoman Empire and the Volga River areas. |
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| | REENIC: Central Asia |
| | ICRC operations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (the web site contains maps, facts and figures, reports, news releases and publications on the countries) | | | CASWW Central Asia Experts Directory (click on "People" in the menu on the left) | | | Central Eurasian Studies Society (a non-profit US-based organization interested in the study of Turkic, Mongolian, Iranian, Caucasian, Tibetan and other peoples of the region from the Black Sea to Tibet) |
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| | www.FantasicAsia.net - Fantastic Central Asia - Online travel advisory website! |
| | We sincerely hope that this site provides the visitor with a colourful introduction to the exciting world of Fantastic Asia. | | | www.FantasicAsia.net - Fantastic Central Asia - Online travel advisory website! | | | The aim is not to replace many useful existing websites and other sources containing information on Central Asia but to bring together in one place as much as possible of what today's explorer needs or would like to know before setting out on the adventure that is Central Asia. |
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| | Central Asia: Environmental Assessment |
| | In 1993 the Central Asia leaders concluded the «Agreement for Joint Actions Aimed at Solution of the Aral Sea Problem and Environment Rehabilitation and Social-Economic Development of the Aral Sea Region» which provided a basis for addressing this environmental catastrophe. | | | The present document was prepared according to a decision of Central Asian Ministers Conference, which was held in Almaty on April 22, 1998 with the support of the Tacis Project «Strengthening of Environmental Policy Development in Central Asia»(DHV Consultants, Holland) and under the UN project «Development of Aral Sea Basin». | | | Due to the economic downturn in Central Asia exploitation of these sites is not satisfactory. |
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| | Central Asia and the Caucasus |
| | Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union - Articles and Resource Page on the Central Asian Republics | | | The web site also offers additional features, including newsmaker interviews, book reviews and a discussion forum. | | | A private, non-political, non-profit, North America-based organization of scholars who are interested in the study of Central Eurasia, and its history, languages, cultures, and modern states and societies. |
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| | Frederick Starr, 'The Investment Climate In Central Asia and the Caucasus' for a volume prepared under the leadership of Eugene Lawson and Jan Kalicki for the Woodrow Wilson International Center of Scholars. | | | The Central Asia- Caucasus Institute of SAIS was founded in 1996, and has in five years grown to be the primary institution in the Washington area for the study of the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Caspian Region. | | | As the Pentagon continues its air raids on Taliban targets in Afghanistan, one key question is how closely the United States should work with resistance groups already fighting the Taliban forces. |
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Central Asia: At-a-glance |
| | But there was growing discontent with his leadership, amid political suppression, economic stagnation and widespread corruption. | | | In the early years of his presidency, Mr Akayev was widely regarded as the most liberal leader in former Soviet Central Asia. | | | The five-year conflict, from 1992-1997, killed up to 50,000 people, and more than one-tenth of the population fled the country. |
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| | Undeterred by charges that rights groups are "romantic idealists at best, defenders of terrorists at worst", Amnesty International has again given Asia a spotty report card. | | | Since September 11, not only have Asian governments used the war on terrorism as an excuse to tighten security legislation, human rights organizations themselves have been put on the defensive. | | | Kill or cure: Bio-weapons in the war on drugs |
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| | United Nations - OCHA IRIN Asia News |
| | ANKARA, 28 Oct 2005 (IRIN) - CONTENTS: PAKISTAN: Interview with WHO country head, Khalif Bile Mohamud Full report | | | ANKARA, 14 Oct 2005 (IRIN) - CONTENTS: AFGHANISTAN: Regional earthquake claims at least three Full report | | | IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. |
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| | CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST |
| | The most positive change were the role of the Central Electoral Commission and the publication of precinct polling results. | | | As an observer with considerable experience in elections in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, this author found the signs of progress more noteworthy. | | | The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and the Silk Road Studies Program of Uppsala University merged in Winter 2005 to form a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center. |
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| | Baghatur Tudun's murder by the Chinese caused the Karluks and other tribes to join forces with the Arabs at Talas, dealing a decisive blow to Chinese hegemony in Central Asia. | | | Their location - if they existed in any real sense at all - is unknown, but likely to have been near the watershed of the Amu Darya and the Aral Sea; ancient Chorasmia, in other words. | | | A vast semi-arid land, in part steppe or desert and in part some of the highest mountains in the world, Central Asia has been the crossroads between the Far East and Far West for as long as there have been humans. |
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| | Documents Relating to Central Asia |
| | Central Asia as a New Region in World Politics, Sergei Lounev and Glerii Shirokov | | | Central Asia after the Empire: Ethnic Groups, Communities and Problems, Yuri Kulchik | | | Central Asia as a Region in the World Economy, Alexander Akimov |
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| | By comparison, the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia was to destroy not these nations but their colonial governments. | | | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a political, economic, and cultural organization of countries located in Southeast Asia. | | | The founding fathers envisaged that the organization would eventually encompass all countries in Southeast Asia. |
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| | Asia Times Online :: Central Asian News and current affairs, Russia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan |
| | The US, which has now had its strategic BTC pipeline undercut, knows that Beijing will take extraordinary measures to secure its long-term oil and gas supplies. | | | From Iraq to Afghanistan to the Central Asian republics, Western militaries are finding it is one thing to train a local army, quite another to obtain its loyalty. | | | Just months ago, Russia's ability to counter US influence in Central Asia was derisively dismissed in Washington. |
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| | In this regard, Rahim Masov's History of a National Catastrophe, translated here from Tajiki, is invaluable. | | | This paper was originally read at the conference entitled The Case of the Former Soviet Central Asian Republics, held at the University of Minnesota, April 11-13, 1996. | | | It has been submitted to appear as part of the proceedings of that conference. |
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| | About EurasiaNet.org - Central Eurasia Project |
| | Check here to be notified of our meetings in New York | | | The CEP’s first full-scale policy undertaking was dedicated to analyzing the consequences of drug trafficking in Central Asia, including the spread of HIV/AIDS and corresponding human rights violations. | | | Sponsored by OSI's Central Eurasia Project, this paper argues that further reforms must be carried out in Uzbekistan if the country is to remain a U.S. ally. |
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| | FANTASIA -> Central Asia - Online travel advisory website! |
| | FANTASIA -> Central Asia - Online travel advisory website! | | | This 'Great Game' was played out over the passes and in the valleys of Central Asia and the Greater Himalaya, and was captured dramatically in Rudyard Kipling's classic novel 'Kim'. | | | Fantastic Asia travel company provides the opportunity for adventurous travellers of the 21st century to explore the same mountains and extend the boundaries of their own experience. |
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| | Neva - Ancient jewelry from Central Asia- Transoxiana 6 |
| | The historical, political and economical processes of the researched period that embraced Central Asia, found their reflection in culture, art and philosophy of the nations that populated the region. | | | Jewelry of the ancient period became known through the works of scientists-archaeologists and their publications. | | | In light of the newest archaeological discoveries a new hypothesis was proposed to suggest that the Treasure of Oxus was part of the treasury of the Temple of Oxus in the ancient metropolis of Takhti-Sangin, where later in the XX century the second Treasure of Oxus was found (excavations are supervised by I.R. Pichikyan). |
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| | Bicycling in Central Asia |
| | This is the most spectacular site in central Asia. | | | This was my second trip to Central Asia. | | | The republics we visited had been part of the Soviet Union and are just now establishing their identities in the form of their own currencies, languages, and governments. |
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| | Kyrgyzstan Travel Visa Tours Accommodation Bishkek |
| | This is true of all of Kyrgyzstan and of many parts of central Asia. | | | It is sometimes said that the capital Bishkek is the greenest capital in Asia. | | | Second, any travel here is welcomed by a tourist-friendly establishment and the public which has only recently started seeing outsiders. |
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| | Asia Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online |
| | Commonwealth of Independent States - Central Asian States (Political) 2002 (190K) | | | Commonwealth of Independent States - Central Asian States (Political) 1995 (242K) | | | The following maps were produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, unless otherwise indicated. |
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| | Landlocked - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are only two such countries in the world: Liechtenstein in Europe and Uzbekistan in central Asia. | | | However, their landlocked neighbours do have indirect access to the sea, via the Danube river in Liechtenstein's case and via canals from the landlocked but non-freshwater Caspian Sea in the case of Uzbekistan. | | | A person in such a country would have to cross at least two borders to reach a coastline. |
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| | Bible League - Scripture Placement Central Asia |
| | The significance of this evidence has not been lost on the people of Central Asia. | | | Because of this, Central Asians have been quick to dismiss Christianity as something their Russian oppressors tried to impose upon them. | | | One Central Asian newspaper carried a thought-provoking headline, “Are we converting to Christianity, or returning to it?” And in reaching the people of Central Asia, one of the most powerful questions for evangelism has become, “Why do you profess the religions of your conquerors, and forget Christianity, the faith of your forefathers? |
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| | NewsCentralAsia - Current Active Topics |
| | Central Asia Speaks: Central Asia and United States: Time to say Goodbye? | | | Central Asia Speaks: Why does nCa care about Foreign Exchange Students in USA? | | | Ashgabat, 26 September 2005 (nCa) --- The United States has some legitimate interests in the Central Asian region but an intelligent strategy to safeguard those interests in nowhere in sight. |
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| | Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) - ADB.org |
| | CAREC Program operates in partnership with other key regional cooperation programs and institutions: the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Central Asia Cooperation Organization. | | | The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program is an ADB-supported initiative to encourage economic cooperation in Central Asia that began in 1997. | | | CAREC is also an alliance of multilateral institutions comprising Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Monetary Fund, Islamic Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme, and World Bank. |
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| | University of Central Asia - Dedicated to Mountain Studies |
| | This situation exists across the mountain regions of Central Asia but also in other mountain regions of the world, from the Himalayas to the Caucasus, Balkans, Atlas, and Andes. | | | Remote from capital cities and central governments, they are easily neglected. | | | The University of Central Asia was founded by the presidents of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, and the Aga Khan, to foster economic and social development throughout the vast and impoverished mountain zones of Central Asia. |
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| | Lonely Planet Thorn Tree Travel Forum |
| | I'll be traveling independently in Central Asia and the Caucasus for many moons. | | | For Pakistan consider cross posting on the Indian Subcontinent branch; for Xinjiang (China) and Mongolia, the North East Asia branch; for Iran, the Middle East branch; and for the others, the Eastern Europe branch. | | | I've generally had fantastic travel experiences in Islamic countries, but it makes you worry a bit when the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan says it will "strike down any tourists". |
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| | THE CENTRAL ASIAN PAGES |
| | This site used to have more links to specific Central Asian countries, but there is so much available these days on Central Asia that I have decided to limit the links to those that are about Central Asia in general and the Uzbeks of Uzbekistan and the Uighurs of Eastern Turkestan in specific. | | | Many would also include Afghanistan, as well as possibly Mongolia and parts of Iran, in Central Asia. | | | This page contains links to websites concerned with Central Asia, as well as articles and papers I have written and other information about this area that I and others have collected or translated from Uzbek. |
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| | UNESCO CII - WebWorld - Focus on Central Asia - Entry Point - |
| | Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the five Central Asian countries which became independent in 1991, share a culture and a way of living enriched by many centuries of common experience. | | | Central Asian countries are demonstrating a willingness to promote telematics programmes for the public sector such as distance education, telemedicine, electronic news delivery and on-line governance. | | | Today, Central Asia is ready to leapfrog in to the information society, thanks to its existing high standards of education and the potential for developing advanced telecommunications infrastructure. |
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| | TASHKENT, Dec 24 (AFP): Nineteen soldiers and five police were convicted in Uzbekistan Friday for negligence in relation to an uprising seven months ago which officials say cost 187 lives, the supreme court said. | | | Not in the Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan. |
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| | SuperOpenDirectory : Events > War in Central Asia? |
| | Points of view from Central Asia, as suggested by Scripting News readers. | | | SuperOpenDirectory : Events > War in Central Asia? | | | Top > Events > War in Central Asia? |
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| | TCA - English Language Newspaper in Central Asia |
| | Should Central Asia region abolish its barriers and be united in a sole political and economic subject, will life of all citizens improve and more democracy be introduced then? | | | Djoomart Otorbayev: "If the government fails to create good business conditions, the economy will collapse" | | | © 2004 "The Times of Central Asia", All right reserved. |
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| | The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights |
| | The major part of the collection, however, consists of objects found on the territory of the ancient states of Central Asia — Parthia, Bactria, Soghdia and Khorezm. | | | The Hermitage collection of artifacts covering the culture and art of Central Asia spans a period from the 4th millenium BC to the 20th century AD. | | | If you enjoyed this collection, you might want to also visit the other collections at the State Hermitage Museum. |
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| | Central Asian - Tien Shan and Pamir |
| | All of these groups could be catered for in Central Asia. | | | Peak Lenin, 7134m, the third highest, ocated in the north of this range, is relatively accessible and technically straight forward, it's ascent nevertheless requires a Himalayan approach involving an advanced base camp, two higher camps and acclimatisation trips. | | | The Fann are located in the heart of Tadjikistan, between the Zeravshan and Gissar ranges and just east of the ancient Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara. |
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| | Human Rights Watch: Europe and Central Asia |
| | Russia’s parliament should reject legislation that would tighten government control over Russian civil society groups and force foreign organizations in Russia to close. | | | Western European governments grappling with terrorism seem to have settled on a swift and convenient method to deal with the radical clerics seen to be inciting Muslim youths into acts of terror: they simply deport them. | | | Receive Europe and Central Asia News by Email |
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| | World Bank economists monitor developments in the new Baltic and Central European EU member states. | | | Countries > Europe and Central Asia > Europe and Central Asia"> |
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