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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Central Asia News.Net http://www.centralasianews.net/ en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:04:22 -0500 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:04:22 -0500 30 Monkeys in a Kazakhstan zoo are enjoying a "very human" remedy against cold weather, with wine added to their daily ration. http://www.centralasianews.net/story/203220006 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:00:03 -0500 IANS http://www.centralasianews.net/story/203220006 By Fozil Mashrab TASHKENT - The commissioning last month of the 75-kilometer railway line from Hairatan on the Uzbekistan border to Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan is being hailed on both sides of ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203238885&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:15:02 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203238885&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Turkmenistan may already have a reputation for the surreal, but as presidential elections approach, one of the last remaining government critics is being harassed by someone with an occultist ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203235558&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:05:22 -0500 EurasiaNet http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203235558&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Farangis Najibullah Soaring fuel prices; electricity rationing; early snow - it's enough to send people scurrying for alternative ways to heat their homes and cook their meals. In ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233733&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:40:56 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233733&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Mahan Abedin The case of alleged Russian spy Katia Zatuliveter has proven to be exceptionally embarrassing to MI5, the British security service, while her fight against deportation has ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233734&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:40:55 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233734&cat=929bcf2071e81801 ridiculously inadequate, barely supporting the point that it is a part of the solution rather than the problem. Unsolicited advice about reducing budget deficits was hardly welcomed, but ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233736&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:40:53 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233736&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in St Petersburg this week concluded with only a little progress in advancing a key infrastructure development ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233735&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:40:53 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233735&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By RFE/RL The relationship between Russian Prime Minister and probable future president Vladimir Putin and his wife of 28 years, Lyudmila, has been alternately portrayed as a nightmare union ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233737&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:40:52 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233737&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Pavel Korduban Ukraine has signed a free-trade agreement with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and completed its free-trade talks with the European Union. Unlike membership of ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233738&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:40:51 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233738&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger visited Kazakhstan last week for an international energy conference, where he invited the country to ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233739&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:40:50 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203233739&cat=929bcf2071e81801 A popular scientist, deputy director general of Siberian scientific center Ivan Nesterov asked representatives of Azerbaijani Diaspora to create Naftalan oil treatment center in Russian city of ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203231765&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:25 -0500 News.Az http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203231765&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Order #3 Culture & Tourism Minister Abulfaz Garayev has endorsed the Rules of Consideration of Administrative Violations by the Ministry of Culture & Tourism of Azerbaijan. The Order ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203231766&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:20 -0500 News.Az http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203231766&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Moscow populism and the Great Game By Uran Bolush Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203231763&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:03:12 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203231763&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Deirdre Tynan BISHKEK - Uzbek President Islam Karimov this month hailed the achievements of the Uzbek economic model, which is basically a retrofitted command system. But Karimov clearly ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203231764&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:03:09 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203231764&cat=929bcf2071e81801 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to meet President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. The meeting is due as part of the eighth session of the Munich security conference which started on Friday on ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228731&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:03:23 -0500 News.Az http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228731&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Lithuanian Premier Andrius Kubilius and Foreign Minister Andronius Ajubalis are to visit Azerbaijan. The statement came during the meetings held by Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228732&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:03:20 -0500 News.Az http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228732&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Erdogan will attend next meeting of Azerbaijan-Turkey Strategic Council. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Azerbaijan this summer, Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228733&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:03:13 -0500 News.Az http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228733&cat=929bcf2071e81801 The 4-magnitude quake hit Azerbaijan's Astara region at 06.19 today. Republic Seismological Center of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences said that epicenter of quake fell to the 11 km ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228734&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:02:56 -0500 News.Az http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228734&cat=929bcf2071e81801 The air company Air Astana, the controlling block of shares of which belongs to the state, signed an agreement with the corporation Boeing on the purchase of four Boeing 767-300ER and three Boeing ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228050&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:56:32 -0500 Itar Tass http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228050&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - Competition in the Southern Gas Corridor from the Caspian Sea basin to Europe continues to heat up, with more details about the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228722&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:27:27 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228722&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Jacob Zenn The terrorist organization Jund al-Khilafah (JaK) is presenting President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan with one of the most critical tests of his 22-year presidency. ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228723&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:27:26 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228723&cat=929bcf2071e81801 well as high foreign direct investment (FDI) expected to represent 4% of gross domestic product (GDP). The S&P upgrade puts Kazakhstan one step above Russia for the first time in over six ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228724&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:27:24 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228724&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Robert M Cutler MONTREAL - The heads of government of the participating states of the (CIS) concluded a free-trade zone (FTZ) agreement last week, meeting in St Petersburg. The heads of ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228729&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:27:21 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228729&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By M K Bhadrakumar Along the midriff of Eurasia, an engrossing battle of wits may have begun that could phenomenally transform the post-Soviet space. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228728&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:27:20 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228728&cat=929bcf2071e81801 permission is granted for hunting in national parks, there will be almost nowhere in Georgia where wild animals can breed under natural conditions." Environmentalists said the changes ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228730&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:27:19 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203228730&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Azerbaijan`s President Ilham Aliyev attending the 48th Munich Security Conference had a speech. The Head of the State noted that Azerbaijan is a new big source for European consumers. 'We ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203222894&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:38:10 -0500 News.Az http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203222894&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Azerbaijan 8-9 SerbiaAzerbaijan took the lead four times but Serbia went ahead when it mattered to go through with Portugal after an extraordinary evening in Group ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203214806&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:45:32 -0500 UEFA http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203214806&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Golos Respubliki, Newspaper (CPJ/IFEX) - New York, February 2, 2012 - The Kazakh security service, or KNB, must immediately cease intimidating Oksana Makushina, deputy editor of Golos Respubliki, ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203214808&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:19:28 -0500 IFEX http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203214808&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Azimjan Askarov, an Uzbek human rights activist and police critic, is serving a life term in prison for allegedly stoking a violent clash in southern Kyrgyzstan in 2010. Askarov's trial, which ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203214809&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:09:34 -0500 EurasiaNet http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203214809&cat=929bcf2071e81801 When a new performance opens at the Mongolian State Academic Theater for Opera and Ballet, the hall sells out quickly. The country, which, according to some estimates, possesses as much as $1 ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203213276&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:09:23 -0500 EurasiaNet http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203213276&cat=929bcf2071e81801 By Jacob Zenn After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the people of Kazakhstan, like those in the rest of the former Soviet Republics, experienced a revival in religious affiliation. In ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203214804&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:08:25 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203214804&cat=929bcf2071e81801 The response is strongly worded, no doubt, and four things must be noted. One, this has been a rare personal accusation of Clinton herself for inciting instability in Russia. Two, Putin segregated ... http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203214805&cat=929bcf2071e81801 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:08:24 -0500 Asia Times http://feeds.centralasianews.net/?rid=203214805&cat=929bcf2071e81801