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| | A look inside a democratic revolt in Central Asia: 3/ 26/ 2005 |
 | | In addition there had been growing disenchantment among the country's intellectual and political elite over what they consider to be the president's increasing centralization of power, in the pattern of a number of other post-Soviet republics. | | | BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- It appears the democratic revolution that led to the downfall of governments in Georgia and Ukraine has reached this central Asian republic, with opposition forces apparently in control of the White House, the main government building in the capital. | | | A look inside a democratic revolt in Central Asia: 3/ 26/ 2005 |
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| | Registan.net » Chicago Tribune Handicaps Central Asian Dominoes |
| | Alex Rodriguez analyzes the probability of revolt in neighboring Central Asian republics. | | | “In all other Central Asian states, the regimes are much more repressive. | | | Indeed, in the former Soviet republics that make up most of Central Asia, dissent is often silenced with torture, imprisonment or both. |
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| | A Routledge Title: Central Asian Survey |
| | Foremost among these are the republics of former Soviet Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Crimea, and the Muslim Ibero-Caucasian and Turkic peoples of the North Caucasus, Middle Volga and Urals whose territories are included in the Russian Federation. | | | Central Asian Survey is the only established refereed journal in the world concerned primarily with the history, politics, cultures, religions and economics of the Central Asian and Caucasian regions. | | | There are deep historical connections between Mongolia and Central Asia and Mongolia's experience of analogous economic and political changes are relevant to readers of Central Asian Survey. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Central Asian Republics |
| | Wouldn't it be extraordinary cool if these republics joined forces and put aside their differences so they could become the Central Asian Republic ? | | | If this happened all other continents, we'd have the Central American Republic, Central European Republic, and Central Australian Republic. | | | Its military spending per capita tops the world. |
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| | Central Asia - encyclopedia article about Central Asia. |
| | Central Asian Republics The Central Asian Republics are five countries located in Central Asia that were former republics of the Soviet Union. | | | 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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| | Central Asia - encyclopedia article about Central Asia. |
| | Central Asian Republics The Central Asian Republics are five countries located in Central Asia that were former republics of the Soviet Union. | | | 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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| | Strategic Significance of Pakistan |
| | The resurgence of Islam in the six Central Asian republics has provoked competing ambitions of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia for influence in the area. | | | These events cover the globe: from Palestine to the Philippines, from Kashmir to Kuwait, from Cyprus to Chechnya, from Bangladesh to Bosnia, from the Central Asian Islamic republics to Morocco and the Sahara, from Turkey to Brunei and Yemen. | | | For example, social harmony between Christians and Jews has always been a central tenet of Islam. |
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| | Radicus Internet - Former Soviet republics in Central Asia |
| | ASHKHABAD, Dec 29 (AFP) - An arrested opposition leader in the Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan was shown on television Sunday with his face puffed, saying in slurred tones he had plotted to kill the president while under the influence of drugs. | | | PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- After agreeing to expand their alliance deep into the former Soviet bloc, NATO leaders were reaching out Friday to the Central Asian nations whose assistance proved vital in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. | | | ASHKHABAD, Dec 18 (AFP) - Turkmen authorities have arrested the country's former foreign minister, ex-speaker of parliament and former head of state television in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate President Saparmurat Niyazov, officials said. |
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| | An abridged history of central Asia : Italy imc |
| | Yet that is precisely what happened to the five Central Asian republics Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan in 1991 when the Soviet Union dissolved," she said, " these people wanted civil liberties, but not necessarily freedom as citizens of new states. | | | The collapse of the Soviet Union -- perhaps reassuring in an odd kind of way to those in the [Beijing] leadership who warned of the perils of unplanned democratization without a visible economic base -- presented a completely new arena for maneuver among the newly independent republics in central Asia. | | | With the increase in oil traffic projected as a result of the Central Asian oil fields, it seems grossly unfair for Turkey to assume the risk for the health of both the environment of the straits and the inhabitants of Istanbul. |
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| | The Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University |
| | Central Asia Fiction is a new on-line literary journal, dedicated to the promotion and development of literary fiction about modern life in the Central Asian republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. | | | 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. |
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| | 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. | | | Central Asian republics have started creating a Caspian Sea-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Black Sea-Europe "Eurasian bridge." Georgia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan concluded last year a special agreement on cooperation in railway transit of goods. | | | Moscow realizes that the international oil giants are more interested in the new oil markets of the former Soviet republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia, ignoring the dilapidated Russian oil sector, which needs much investment to be revived. |
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| | Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Over 1.5 million people were deported to Siberia and the Central Asian republics. | | | Central Committee, many of whom were also criticised by the Bolshevik leader in the testament. | | | In April 1917, Stalin was elected to the Central Committee with the third highest vote total in the party and was subsequently elected to the Politburo of the Central Committee (May 1917); he held this position for the remainder of his life. |
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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 Central Asian NGO Network is part of the NGO Support Initiative for Central Asia, a project made possible through the support of USAID and managed by Counterpart International Inc. | | | 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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| | India - Central Asia |
| | The dissolution of the Soviet Union forced India to construct policies to deal with the new political situation in the Central Asian republics. | | | During the post-1971 era of close Indian-Soviet relations, cultural exchanges flourished between India and the Central Asian republics. | | | Until large parts of Central Asia were incorporated into the Russian Empire in the mid-nineteenth century, relations between India and Central Asia had been close. |
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| | Heralding an Asian Century |
| | As for Sino-Indian relations, while these have been historically fraught over border disputes, both giants are concerned about the US military presence in the Central Asian republics, as well as Iraq and the Gulf, undermining their own oil and energy interests. | | | Returning to the CIA report, it speculates that Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries may cement links with India so as to form a geopolitical counterweight to China, even as China strengthens its own ties with New Delhi. | | | A recent CIA-commissioned intelligence report suggests the rise of China and India is heralding an Asian Century in place of a receding American Century. |
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| | USAID Europe and Eurasia: Central Asian Republics Home Page |
| | You are here » Home » Locations » Europe and Eurasia » Countries/Regions » Central Asian Republics »; | | | USAID Europe and Eurasia: Central Asian Republics Home Page | | | USAID Assistance to Central Asia helps increase opportunities to improve citizens' knowledge, livelihoods, participation and dialogue in social, economic and political life. |
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| | Central Asia |
| | 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. | | | Many of the difficulties that the newly established republics of Central Asia experience today are directly related to V. Lenin's 1924 national-administrative divisions of the region. | | | In this regard, Rahim Masov's History of a National Catastrophe, translated here from Tajiki, is invaluable. |
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| | Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. | | | The KGB (Committee for State Security), served in a fashion as the Soviet counterpart to both the FBI and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the U.S. It ran a massive network of informants throughout the Soviet Union, which was used to monitor violations in law. | | | The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of the European continent and the northern portion of the Asian continent. |
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| | Footnotes to History- C |
| | Chinese Islamic Republic- The Hui Muslims, descendants of Persian and Central Asian refugees, occupy the Ningxia region of central China. | | | Cisalpine Republic- The Cisalpine Republic was formed in June of 1797 by Napoleon, merging the earlier puppet states of the Cispadane and the Transpadane Republics. | | | Carlota- A Maroon settlement in the jungles of Mato Grosso province in central Brazil. |
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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 | | | 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. | | | The Central Asia Institute promotes literacy, women's vocational skills, and awareness of public health and environmental issues through community initiated education programs in mountain regions of Central Asia. |
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| | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | It was the capital of the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan until 1997, when the capital was changed to Astana. | | | The union supported Communist Party policies and was the defender and interpreter of the single Soviet literary method, Socialist Realism. | | | Follow the history of organized labor in America. |
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| | He said the NHA was making comprehensive planning to extend roads up to the borders of neighbouring Afghanistan, China, Central Asian Republics and Iran with a view to facilitate regional trade. | | | "There is a dire need for peace in Afghanistan for establishing Central Asian road trade route, and the present indicators are positive," he said. | | | MULTAN, Jan 05 : The National Highway Authority is improving and developing cross-border road links for international trade and connecting them with the Asian Highway Network while the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) was improving the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar road for strategic reasons. |
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| | Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan |
| | Similarly it is next to impossible for the Central Asian republics to trade with China because of the lack of decent overland infrastructure. | | | SHANGHAI - There's a grand plan for an Asian Highway Network linking at least 23 countries including major nations such as China and India. | | | Twenty-three of the 26 countries in the plan are in the process of ratifying the accord. |
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| | The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : A HIGHWAY FOR INTEGRATION |
| | At a time when many countries are feeling the "strain of becoming an economic power house," the AHN should be a boon to the Indo-China region, the Central Asian Republics and most of Northeast Asia. | | | THE CONCLUSION OF a landmark agreement among 23 countries for a 140,000-km Asian Highway Network (AHN) in Shanghai marks the culmination of a protracted exercise under the aegis of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP). | | | With over 50,000 km, the East and Northeast Asian region will account for the bulk of the network. |
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| | IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE OF THAILAND |
| | The Mongolian delegate said the agreement would go a long way towards meeting needs of the landlocked countries, which also include Laos, Bhutan, Afghanistan and many of the Central Asian Republics. | | | After years of arduous negotiations, representatives of 32 Asia-Pacific countries last week adopted an agreement that sets out the minimum terms, conditions and standards for joining, coordinating and developing the vast, 140,000-kilometre Asian Highway network. | | | The Russian delegate to the meeting, whose country has about 16,800 kilometres of Asian Highway running through it, hailed the agreement as one of Escap's most efficient actions. |
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| | In 1992 the five central Asian former Soviet Republics and Azerbaijan joined. | | | The Asian Highway Transport Technical Bureau was set up (funded by UNDP who also provided financial aid to member countries to help cover the costs of material, testing facilities, training, etc.). | | | Asian Highway (AH) development project initiated by Economic Commission for Asia and Far East (ECAFE) The original 15 member nations: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (membership officially granted in 1989), Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam (former South Viet Nam). |
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