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Kyrgyzstan: Probing NGOs

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 @ 00:26 UTC

by Nathan Hamm

Countries:: Kyrgyzstan
Topics:: none

Registan.net reports that Kyrgyzstan is pressuring its large NGO community and asks whether or not the new government is trying to protect itself from what it might perceive as a source of power that contributed to the fall of the last president.

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