Central Asia
Geographic Region
Iran hits back for IAEA censure by launching proxy military action against US, UK...enrichment projects and nuclear bomb program. Tehran classifies the groups combating the West in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia as "progressive." The West may therefore be faced with newly-empowered armed groups in those... In this article: Tehran, UK, International Atomic Energy Agency, Uranium, US, Iran, Washington, London, and Taliban |
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Independent.co.uk - Leading Articles | 13 hours ago
Leading article: Terrorism returns to Russia
...the xenophobic Russian far right - resentment will be inflamed between ethnic Russians and people from the Caucasus and Central Asia. At a time of severe economic downturn and acute competition for jobs, the temptation to find scapegoats...
In this article: Russia, St Petersburg, Moscow, Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya, and Edinburgh
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AP Online | 1 day ago
Victims being identified after Russian train wreck
...problem in Russia. Skinheads and neo-Nazi groups have carried out frequent attacks, mostly targeting ethnic groups from the Caucasus and Central Asia. Nationalists were blamed in a similar blast that caused a derailment along the same...
In this article: Russia, Moscow, Nationalism, Chechnya, Tver, and Federal Security Service
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GlobalPost | 1 day ago
Turkmenistan: The new Great Game
...on central Asian supplies. Despite its standing as the world's largest gas producer, the country needs to import gas from central Asia to boost its own reserves as demand at home and abroad grows, and investment in new and difficult Arctic...
In this article: Turkmenistan, Russia, Europe, Natural gas, International Energy Agency, and Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov
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scotsman.com - Books | 2 days ago
Book review: Shooting Leave: Spying Out Central Asia in the Great Game
To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Published Date: 28 November 2009 SHOOTING LEAVE: SPYING OUT CENTRAL ASIA IN THE GREAT GAME Review by JAMES FERGUSSON THE Ministry of Defence has much to learn from...
In this article: Nikolai Przhevalsky, Alexander Burnes, Stanley McChrystal, and Goat
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Watchdog warning about TV in post-Soviet states
VIENNA (AP) - Government-influenced television is hampering democracy in Russia, Belarus and most post-Soviet countries in Central Asia and the South Caucasus, and it could endanger international peace and security if misused as a propaganda...
In this article: Democracy, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia, Yugoslav wars, OSCE Representative On Freedom Of The Media, and Belarus
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washingtonpost.com | 4 days ago
Open questions on the war in Afghanistan
...both the U.S. and the global community stay engaged in Afghanistan." The active-duty army strength of some of the key countries in Central Asia that have a strong interest in how things turn out in Afghanistan are: Pakistan (700,000),...
In this article: Afghanistan, Manmohan Singh, United States, USS Trenton, Lally Weymouth, Beirut, and Pakistan
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | 6 days ago
HIV kills 25 million, infects 60 million: UNAIDS
...South-east Asia, 3.8 million people are now living with the infection, added UNAIDS. The comparative figure for Eastern Europe and Central Asia is 1.5 million. UNAIDS observed that in these regions, the epidemic was "experiencing...
In this article: HIV, Transmission, South east Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, Immunodeficiency, UN, and Asia
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Reuters | November 18, 2009
Chevron in talks with Turkmenistan over gas field
...onshore in a gas project linked to a Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline due to open next month. Pushing into thinly populated Central Asia to feed China's energy needs, CNPC won a licence to develop the onshore Bagtyyarlyk deposit two...
In this article: Chevron, Turkmenistan, CNPC, China, United States, Washington, and EU
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Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern Pakistan in the south. It is also sometimes known as Middle Asia or Inner Asia, and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent. Various definitions of its exact composition exist and no one definition is universally accepted. Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, it does have some important overall characteristics. For one, Central Asia has historically been closely tied to its nomadic peoples and the Silk Road. As a result, it has acted as a crossroads for the movement of people, goods, and ideas between Europe, West Asia, South Asia, and East Asia.
In modern context, Central Asia consists of the five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Other areas are often included such as Mongolia, Afghanistan, most of Pakistan, north-eastern Iran, north-western India, and western parts of the People's Republic of China such as Xinjiang. South-western and middle China such as Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu and Inner Mongolia, and southern parts of Siberia may also be included in Central Asia.
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