A tax dispute is disrupting operations at the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan. The Kyrgyz interim government is charging tax on fuel imports for Manas, and the US government is refusing to pay, in what has the potential to develop into a major diplomatic standoff between Bishkek and Washington.
US President Barack Obama’s nomination of onetime Nagorno-Karabakh conflict mediator Matthew Bryza to be Washington’s envoy to Azerbaijan is sparking opposition from Armenian diaspora organizations and from within Armenia itself.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and many of his top cabinet ministers are visiting the United States, a trip that both sides hope will ease the strain in bilateral relations.
Kyrgyzstan’s General Prosecutor’s Office is focusing its corruption investigation concerning fuel supplies at Manas Transit Center on companies allegedly controlled by Maxim Bakiyev, the son of ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
Red Star Enterprises Ltd. and Mina Corp Ltd., companies that are now the subjects of a US congressional probe into potentially improper fuel contracting at the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan, created an opaque financial structure across three business centers on two continents.
Red Star Enterprises Ltd. and Mina Corp Ltd., companies that are now the subjects of a US congressional probe into potentially improper fuel contracting at the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan, created an opaque financial structure across three business centers on two continents.
Until recently, Eduard Khil hardly ever ventured onto the Internet. Now the 75-year-old spends much of his time sifting through the avalanche of fan mail flooding his e-mail inbox.
The United States is stepping up its role in brokering reconciliation between Armenia and Turkey, aiming to reinvigorate the stalled process. The impending debate over a US Congressional resolution to formally recognize the Armenian genocide, however, is shaping up as a wild card in the delicate process.
The United States wants to "depoliticize" the proposed Nabucco pipeline project, and might welcome Russia's participation in the pipeline, Washington's Eurasian energy envoy, Richard Morningstar, recently announced. The Kremlin, however, is likely to interpret this outwardly magnanimous gesture as a sign of Nabucco's weakness, some experts say.
(RFE/RL) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai tells RFE/RL that he has long advocated talking to moderate elements within the Taliban but that the international community is only now endorsing and supporting that view.
