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Shashlykistan: UNEP Report Confirms, Water will be continuing source of Friction in Central Asia

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News, Politics and Opinion covering Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Monday, August 15, 2011. UNEP Report Confirms, Water will be continuing source of Friction in Central Asia. Originally posted on CA-News.org. Photo credit: Flikr/Sarah Olmstead. While all of these recommendations are laudable –even necessary to achieve a sustainable long-term symbiosis between riparian states – none of them have a remote chance of being implemented in the near term. The addition of Afghanistan as a party to ...Subscribe to:...

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Shashlykistan: June 2009

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News, Politics and Opinion covering Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Food choices in Kyrgyzstan are quite plentiful, but not especially diverse. It closely resembles modern Turkish food for obvious reasons (the Turks migrated to Anatolia around the 11-12th century from the Central Asian region), but the time interval and isolated evolution of tastes causes some important distinctions. It is interesting that, some 400 years after the Silk Road all-but unravelled, and 150 years after Ru...

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Shashlykistan: Indefinite Deployment: US Neocons Explain Rationale of Never Leaving Kyrgyz Airbase

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News, Politics and Opinion covering Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Thursday, July 14, 2011. Indefinite Deployment: US Neocons Explain Rationale of Never Leaving Kyrgyz Airbase. Originally posted on CA-NEWS.org. The US will continue to have a military presence in Kyrgyzstan, perhaps indefinitely, despite plans for a complete withdrawal from Afghanistan by 2014, according to a veteran conservative analyst and former Defense Department staff. The comments, by Seth Cropsey. And the American Enterprise Institute.

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Shashlykistan: November 2010

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News, Politics and Opinion covering Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Minority Representation Paltry in Kyrgyzstan’s New Parliament. November 29, 2010 - 11:54pm. Kyrgyzstan's October parliamentary elections have been widely acknowledged as fair and credible. By local and international observers. But one issue, minority inclusion, suffered a setback which may prove especially difficult to address in the wake of June’s ethnically fueled violence. These developments occurred despite i...

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Shashlykistan: August 2011

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News, Politics and Opinion covering Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Monday, August 22, 2011. Modern Maginot - Central Asian Oil Pipelines May be Obsolete Before They Pay Off Time, Cost of Construction. Article originally posted on CA-NEWS.org. Central Asia is quickly emerging as a global center of hydrocarbon production, but the ambitious transnational pipelines built to access this oil and natural gas wealth may become obsolete sooner than anticipated. Posted by R Weber. Monday, August 15, 2011. The talks ...

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Shashlykistan: October 2010

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News, Politics and Opinion covering Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Wednesday, October 27, 2010. Enthusiam Gap: How registered voter lists can marginalize small parties in the Kyrgyz Electoral System. Following up on our earlier post. About Kyrgyz Election Threshold Policy, numerous sources are citing the use of eligible voter lists. Rather than actual ballots cast. According to the current Kyrgyz Electoral Code. Based on votes of [actual] voters, [each of whom must be] included in voter lists. By the Numbe...

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Shashlykistan: July 2011

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News, Politics and Opinion covering Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Wednesday, July 20, 2011. Rate of Exchange: The Costs of Democratic Transition in Kyrgyzstan, and Who Picks up the Bill. Image credit RIA Novosti). The Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan announced on July 14. That it estimates a cost of 449 Million Kyrgyz Som. 5 declared last week). The most notable of which is Kamchybek Tashiev of the nationalist Ata-Jurt party. The big name not. The new Constitution was written with...

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Shashlykistan: May 2011

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News, Politics and Opinion covering Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Friday, May 27, 2011. The Best We Can: Kyrgyz Government Panel Explains Circumstances, Handling of June 2010 Osh Violence. Kyrgyzstans Roza Otunbayeva, a longtime opposition activist turn (post)revolutionary leader, was faced with this challenge recently, when the Kyrgyzstan Inquiry Commission. The issue went off like a bomb in Kyrgyzstans political circles, where (ethno-)nationalist sentiments have been on the rise, especially among the Ky...

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Shashlykistan: Modern Maginot - Central Asian Oil Pipelines May be Obsolete Before They Pay Off Time, Cost of Construction.

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News, Politics and Opinion covering Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Monday, August 22, 2011. Modern Maginot - Central Asian Oil Pipelines May be Obsolete Before They Pay Off Time, Cost of Construction. Article originally posted on CA-NEWS.org. Central Asia is quickly emerging as a global center of hydrocarbon production, but the ambitious transnational pipelines built to access this oil and natural gas wealth may become obsolete sooner than anticipated. Nabucco, for example, will be one-and-a-half times as ...