NEWS BRIEFS - May 2009
May 29, 2009
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan: Russians Kant Leave Military Airbase for 49 Years
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Gas Wells Lie Idle Because of Pipeline Blast
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Watchdog Group Claims There Was Second Suicide Bomber in Andijan
Central Asia
Central Asia: New CSTO Military Force Will Protect Region -- Newspaper
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Chinese Credit Sought for Giant Gas Field
May 28, 2009
Kyrgyzstan: Things Getting Back to Normal on Kyrgyz-Uzbek Border
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: International Companies Line Up for Slice of East-West Pipeline
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Energy Privatization Plans Derailed by Economic Crisis
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan: Baku Agrees to Lend $100 Million to Georgian Railway
Armenia
Armenia: Human Rights Group Provides Guidelines to Protect Servicemen
May 27, 2009
Georgia
Georgia: Russia to Start Prospecting for Oil in Abkhazia
Georgia
Georgia: Opposition Coalition Starts to Splinter
Central Asia
Turkmenistan: Ashgabat Pledges to Export via Iranian-Pakistani Pipeline -- Pakistani Expert
Tajikistan
Tajikistan: Cash Problems Halt Work at Russian-Backed Power Station
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Former Nuclear Test Site Could Be Farmed Says Energy Minister
May 26, 2009
Tajikistan
Tajikistan: National Currency Set to Implode?
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Ex-Uranium Boss Charged with Embezzlement
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Trouble Brews for Turkish Construction Companies
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan Changes Ombudsman Election Rules
Georgia
Georgia: Patriarch Hints that Opposition Should Stop Protests
May 22, 2009
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: New Economic Protocol Signed with Turkey
Georgia
Georgia: Opposition Takes Fight to the Regions
Armenia
Armenia: Yerevan Buying Russian Arms at CSTO Discount
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Mel Gibson is PNG'd in Karakalpakstan
Kyrgyzstan: Turkish Presidential Visit to Focus on Trade
May 21, 2009
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: A Final Warning for Russia's Gazprom?
Tajikistan
Tajikistan: Dushanbe Says No to Cows, Donkeys and Chickens
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Militants Arrested Trying to Join Taliban in Swat
Armenia: Yerevan Has High Hopes for Football Diplomacy with Turkey
Azerbaijan and Georgia: A Confederacy of Chums
May 20, 2009
Azerbaijan: Baku May Double Gas Price for Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Gazprom Still Not Taking Delivery of Turkmen Gas
Georgia
Georgia: Burjanadze Threatens to Sue Saakashvili
Armenia
Armenia: Crisis-Squeezed Yerevan Seeks Russian Financial Help
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Former Presidential Insider Detained in Moscow
May 19, 2009
Turkmenistan: Afghan Nationals Freed Under Amnesty
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Ashgabat Repairing Rift with Russia -- Energy Minister
Armenia
Armenia: Government Supporters Claim Fist Fight "Between Friends"
Georgia: Russia to Scale Down Military Presence in Georgia's Breakaway Regions
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: State Energy Monopoly Announces Projects Worth $21.5 Billion
May 18, 2009
Georgia
Georgia: Abkhazia Hands Airport, Railway Over to Russian Management
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Egyptian Business to Invest $660 Million in Resort near Tashkent
Azerbaijan: EU Ambassador Allays Nabucco Fears
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: President Turns into a Homebody
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Shake Up at State-Controlled Energy Companies
May 15, 2009
Tajikistan
Tajikistan: Just Say 'No' to a Cult of Personality - President
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Tashkent to Export Gas to China
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Pardons Granted After Corruption Scandal Delay
Georgia
Georgia: Opposition Unblocks Road
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan to Increase the Price of Gas Exports to Turkey
May 14, 2009
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Hundreds of Dead Seals Wash-Up on Caspian Coast
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Gas Exports to Increase but Buyers Remain Scarce
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: UFO Falls, Official Investigation Launched
Georgia
Georgia: Are Opposition Appeals Lost in Translation?
Armenia
Armenia: Explosion at Yerevan Chemical Plant
May 13, 2009
Armenia
Armenia: Violence Mars Yerevan City Council Election Campaign
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Israel to Open Embassy in Ashgabat
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan: Increasingly Forested but Fruit and Nut Trees Endangered Still
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: IMF Praises Economic Policies and Reform
Georgia
Belarus-Abkhazia: The Start of a Beautiful Friendship?
May 12, 2009
Armenia
Armenia: Yerevan Requests More US Aid for Roads
Caucasus
Caucasus: Regional Economic Outlook Bleak - IMF Report
Georgia
Georgia: HRW Calls for Investigation into Attacks on Protesters
Central Asia
Nabucco Pipeline: Preliminary Engineering Work Begins
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Russian Pipe Supplier Finds New Customer in Ashgabat
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Top Tier Hotels Linger on Market
May 11, 2009
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Uranium Deal with India to be Signed Soon
None
Iran: Tehran Plans to Launch Giant Oil Platform
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Pardons for Cash Fraud Exposed
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: South Korea Signs Five Energy Deals with Tashkent
Armenia
Armenia: Pro-Opposition TV Channel Goes Mobile
May 8, 2009
Georgia
Georgia: Arrests, Investigation into Mutiny Continue
Armenian, Azerbaijani Presidents Meet
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Russia: Moscow Offers to Peddle Cheap Arms to Neighbors
Central Asia
Pipeline Politics: EU and Partners Pledge to Sign Nabucco Agreement by June
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Iran Readies Contract for Yoloten Gas Field Development
May 7, 2009
Tajikistan
Tajikistan: Rahmon Administration Not Paying Its Energy Bills
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan: Industrial Output Plunges
May 6, 2009
Central Asia
Central Asia: Dirty Fuel Abounds
Caucasus
Georgia: NATO Exercises Kick Off
Armenia
Armenia: Yerevan Pulls Out from NATO Exercises
Caucasus
Azerbaijan and Armenian Leaders to Meet in Prague
Armenia
Armenia: 2008 Protest Investigation Stopped
May 5, 2009
Caucasus
Azerbaijan and Turkey: Ankara and Baku to Discuss Gas Prices
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan: Police Arrest Two in School Shootings
Central Asia
Turkmenistan: Iranian Deal a Boon to Future Gas Exports, Says Iranian Official
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Belarus Enters Uncharted Mining Territory
Tajikistan
Tajikistan: To the Rescue, Iranian Media Enters Information War
May 4, 2009
Georgia
Georgia: Protesters Threaten to Block Strategic Highway
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan: Shah Deniz Production Grows
Tajikistan
Tajikistan: China Aids Defense Budget as Economy Continues to Tumble
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan: Communists Line Up Behind Bakiyev
Georgia
Georgia: Tbilisi Protests as Moscow Increases Troops in Abkhazia, South Ossetia
May 1, 2009
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan: Gas Dispute a Corporate Affair, Says Russian Energy Minister
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan: Baku Students Rally for Official Mourning Period
Armenia
Armenia: Ter-Petrosian Revs Up for Late May Yerevan Vote
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan: Parliament Approves New Gold Mining Agreement
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan: Bakiyev Confirms Candidacy in Summer Elections
