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Closed Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Border Ratcheting Up Tensions |
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06/04/2011
For Turgunaly Tagaev, a villager in southern Kyrgyzstan’s isolated and impoverished Batken Province, the death of his brother, who lived a few kilometers away, was a tragedy. But his sense of loss turned into a sense of injustice and anger when border guards from neighboring Uzbekistan -- where his brother’s village is located -- kept him from the funeral.
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Tajikistan: Dushanbe’s Energy System Springs a Leak |
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05/04/2011
Konstantin Parshin
It has been a winter tradition of late in Tajikistan: with the country’s aging infrastructure unable to produce enough electricity, the government has resorted to implementing rolling blackouts. Relief then would come in the spring -- when snowmelt and rain refilled reservoirs and fed hydropower plants. But this year is defying the pattern, with the power grid going dark when it should be giving light.
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Kazakhstan 'Breaks Pledge' To Reopen Border With Kyrgyzstan |
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May 12, 2010
RFE/RL
BISHKEK -- The Kyrgyz-Kazakh border remains closed despite what Bishkek says was an agreement between the two countries' leaders to reopen it, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
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