I am back from hiatus (sort of)
Kyrgyzstan:
- From Voice of Russia: Kyrgyzstan will close the US Manas Transit Center near Bishkek by 2014.
- From NEWS BCM (Russian website): Gazprom to extract gas in Kyrgyzstan
- From Trend News Agency: Two Kyrgyz Presidential Candidates fail Kyrgyz language test. The new provisional government upon taking over power from former President Bakiev made a big deal that each candidate know their native language: Kyrgyz. The candidates to fail are: leader of the Green Party of Kyrgyzstan Erkin Bulekbayev and Tolubay bank’s committee of directors’ member Seyitbek Bayguttiyev. The leader of Meken Intamagi party leader Temirbek Asanbekov was the first who passed the official language test.
Uzbekistan:
- From Eurasianet.org: Commentary has surfaced that to make the CSTO efficient, kick Uzbekistan out. Proposed by Russian think tank INSOR.
- From Trend News Agency: Russia celebrates the 20th anniversary of Uzbek independence on 5 Sept
Turkmenistan:
- From Xinhua: Turkmenistan to become CIS chair in 2012
- From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Former self-indulging book from now former and now dead Turkmen Leader Niyazov to be replaced by Berdymukhammedov’s own self-indulging and self-aggrandizing good, Nama (this is my own commentary
Tajikistan:
- From HydroWorld: Iran and Tajikistan launch Sangtuda-2 hydropower station
- From Irish Times: Tajikistan tries BBC journalist for having contacted the banned group Hizb-ut-Tahrir in Tajikistan. The OSCE has condemned the case. BBC maintains the journalist is innocent
Kazakhstan:
- From Telegraph.co.uk: Kazakhstan’s main state-owned TV station ditches Russian language broadcasts despite the fact that Russian is an official language. According to the article, the order came down from Nazarbayev to dump the Russian broadcasts. Could this be an attempt like many other Central Asian states to embrace their native tongues and to teach their children their respective native languages to maintain a strong cultural and national identity??
- From Interfax-Religion: Kazakhstan will inspect foreign religious literature being imported into the country. The inspections will be carried out by Customs
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