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7 February 2012

Kyrgyzstan: World Bank Country Director Storms Out of Round Table

Written by Chris Rickleton · Kyrgyzstan

For Kyrgyzstan-based netizens the story of last week was undoubtedly the sudden and violent meltdown of Alexander Kramer, head of the World Bank's Bishkek office, at a high level government-donor round table. Chris Rickleton reports.

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3 February 2012

Kyrgyzstan: “Putin Is a Complex Bio-Robot”

Written by Chris Rickleton · Kyrgyzstan

Ex-presidential candidate Arstanbek Abdylaev, scourge of the Kyrgyz Internet, has struck again. In a recent press conference he disclosed his world conspiracy theories, including a claim that Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, is a “complex bio-robot.”

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2 February 2012

Mongolia: The Mining Projects Leaving Herders Without Livelihoods

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · China, Kyrgyzstan

Mining projects in Mongolia promise development of social and economic infrastructure and a way to alleviate poverty, but on the wayside, local communities near the mines are feeling the negative impact as their environment and traditional livelihoods are affected.

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24 January 2012

Kyrgyzstan: MPs Told to Ride the Bus

Written by Chris Rickleton · Kyrgyzstan

A suggestion that Kyrgyz MPs should give up their state-funded cars and take a minibus to work has moved netizens towards a reappraisal of what their elected representatives should and shouldn't be entitled to.

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20 January 2012

Turkey: Post-Murder Trial, Thousands Remember Hrant Dink

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Armenia, Turkey

Thousands have marched in Turkey to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist and Agos newspaper editor Hrant Dink.

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18 January 2012

Turkey: Hrant Dink Murder Trial Closes

Written by Nigar Hacizade · Armenia, Turkey

Five years and 25 hearings later, the trial to convict those responsible for the murder of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist, has come to a close.

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6 January 2012

Global Voices Most Read Posts in 2011

Written by Solana Larsen · Tunisia, Egypt

Global Voices is no longer as lonely a media voice when it comes to reporting tweets and blog posts. Still, where mainstream media interest wanes, we're the ones who continue documenting local citizen media. Discover our top 20 list of most read posts for 2011.

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3 January 2012

Georgia: Return of the Meskhetian Turks

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Russia, Azerbaijan

Over 100,000 Muslims were deported from the Meskheti region of Georgia by Joseph Stalin in 1944. Now, more than 60 years later, some are slowly starting to return as part of the country's obligations to the Council of Europe.

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2 January 2012

Caucasus: The Year in Review

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Armenia, Azerbaijan

As popular uprisings spread through the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, opposition forces tried to replicate the Arab Spring in the South Caucasus. However, they failed.

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29 December 2011

Kyrgyzstan: Ravshan Jeenbekov and the Facebook Generation

Written by Chris Rickleton · Kyrgyzstan

Of all the divides in Kyrgyzstan’s fractious political society, one too often overlooked is the divide between generations. Unlike the famed North/South schism, which manifests itself in elections and street-protests,...

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Updates about Central Asia & Caucasus

15 April 2012

Freedom of Speech

NetProphet comments on the case of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a young activist in Azerbaijan who was sentenced to two years in prison on what international human rights groups consider politically motivated charges, and a new campaign to have him freed.

• Pervin Muradli

7 April 2012

Language

NetProphet comments on the release of Azerbaijan's first domestically produced anti-virus software, named after the country's capital, B.A.K.U. Launched at an expensive hotel, the event was not without its glitches, however, and most notably with invitations plagued by grammatical errors from what appeared to be machine translation. Amused, social network users reportedly shared them online.

• Onnik Krikorian

4 April 2012

3 April 2012

War & Conflict

Nick Fielding writes that investigation into the February 2010 tragedy, when 23 Afghans travelling in three vehicles in Uruzgan province were attacked and killed by US helicopters, is over.

• Adil Nurmakov

International Relations

Joshua Foust says that Russian-Kyrgyz relations are deteriorating as president Atambaev is threatening to shut down foreign military bases on Kyrgyz territory - not only American, but also Russian ones.

• Adil Nurmakov

Elections

Nathan Hamm writes that Uzbekistan’s parliament decided to delay the next presidential election from December 2014 to March 2015, a move that experts see as president Karimov's preparation for a future in which he is no longer the President of Uzbekistan.

• Adil Nurmakov

Politics

Nathan Hamm takes a critical view on recent pictures of Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov, who has been rumored to be on the verge of death from cancer for about the last decade. The latest photographs show a shiny happy person, “but it is somewhat striking how obviously fake these photos look”.

• Adil Nurmakov

International Relations

Joshua Foust reports that Turkmenistan unceremoniously lets the Peace Corps know that they are no longer welcome in this Central Asian republic.

• Adil Nurmakov

Religion

Mohammad Amin Wahidi writes about a women group called RAWA in Afghanistan that is reportedly miusing the funds of international donors, while operating as the Taliban's aide in promotion of fundamentalism and ethnic discrimination.

• Adil Nurmakov

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