... government may insert into public life whenever it deems necessary, much as the government of Uzbekistan did in 2005. The propaganda tactics of a Central Asian dictatorship I studied from afar are being practiced by my own government. There is no refuge for the persecuted, and there is no escape from the...

...Gregory Feifer Copyright © 2002 World Policy Institute 2002 Gregory Feifer, a former fellow o f the Institute o f Current World A ffairs, lives in Moscow, where he is w riting a book on the rise o f Russian president V ladim ir Rutin. Uzbekistan’s Eternal Realities...

.... Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 family Mexico United States immigration India Uzbekistan Afghanistan Mexican-American writers Sandra Cisneros and Erika L. Sanchez discuss their paths to finding beauty in a culture that often devalues women, while Sakena Yacoobi, of Afghanistan...

...Belinda Cooper; Isabel Traugott Copyright © 2003 World Policy Institute 2003 ADVOCACY Belinda Cooper is a senior fellow a t the World Policy Institute, and the coauthor of a report on domestic violence in Uzbekistan for a USAID-sponsored project (2000). Isabel...

..., Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Arabia. Contrary to Central Asia’s own his­ Uzbekistan— and to contend for the first tory, jih ad (holy war), rather than ijtihad time with radically differing ideologies. A (reinterpretation and consensus), has be­ decade later, the same elites are in power. come the...

... intelligence. But Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine drifted in NATO's direction, in part because Russia supported separatist movements in each of those nations. Lastly, the governments of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, long suspicious of ethnic Russians who had migrated during Soviet times...

... Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyr­ ries: the Oxus formed the frontier between gyzstan, and Turkmenistan— are home to British India and Tsarist Russia, and its wa­ upward of a hundred ethnic groups, among ters today separate Central Asia from Tali­ them Germans, Koreans, and Tibetans. By ban-ruled...

..., Gregory; “Uzbekistan’s Eternal Realities: A Report from Smitn, Patrick; “'Whither the Emerging Middle Class Post- Tashkent” (XIX: 1) Crisis Asia Searches for a New Economic Model" (XIX:2) Gause, F. Gregory III; “Be Careful What You...

... Afghanistan to violence Taliban, Pakistan tried to redress its insecu­ in Kashmir, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Kyrgyz­ rity relative to India, curb Pashtun national­ stan, and Uzbekistan. Networks of narcotics ism, and create a corridor for trade with traffickers collaborating with armed groups, Central Asia...

..., Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. sweden’s historic neutrality, which gave this country of 9.5 million people outsized diplomatic clout and moral standing, is now up for debate. In 2012, TeliaSonera was slammed for not doing enough to prohibit the misuse of technology which, through an old Soviet-era...

... destabilized Mikhail Kasyanov’s continued efforts to Russia’s neighbors, Uzbekistan and Tajik­ renegotiate Moscow’s international debt, istan. For Vladimir Putin, who had come Russia announced plans to meet its out­ into office on a wave of support for his deci­ standing Paris Club obligations ahead of...

... Senegal Uganda* Chad Guinnea Bissau Liberia Sierra Leone* Uzbekistan China India* Nepal Somalia Yugoslavia* Countries w ith 1,000 or more estim ated fatalities in 1999 are marked with an...

... indispensable nation.17 last September: “Russia may be using still dodgier tactics elsewhere. Uzbekistan, an Hatred of Soviet communism helped autocratically run and independent-minded take me to Afghanistan in 1988 as a jour­ country in Central Asia, is facing a mysteri­ nalist covering the war from...

... orient toward the West. Ukraine’s Orange base in Uzbekistan. But all Central Asia’s Revolution, in particular, has cost the Rus­ governments remain wary of any serious sian president substantial domestic political Kremlin attempt to reassert Russian domi­ capital. nance in the...

... agreed to coordinate their anti-Taliban activities and support the creation of an Afghan government-in-exile headed by Zahir Shah. It would include all the principal groups who opposed Taliban rule. Back at the American embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, I prepared three classified cables on the meeting. I...

... approach to “lawful interception” has been adopted in Belarus, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. And over the last three years Belarus, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan have all updated their national interception systems, modeled after the Russian SORM. In March 2010, Belarusian president...

... involved. which the U.S. military had become accus­ There were no vital British interests at stake tomed, bases were required in Pakistan, and in Zululand in 1879, nor in General Gor­ in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan don’s mission to Khartoum in 1885, to cite deep inside...

... United States, Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Chechnya, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, China, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan.” At some point in 2015, this scope of traffic led some ISIS members to believe they could cross the border officially...

... shows no signs of fading into retirement. The same open-ended tenure holds true, incidentally, for the president of Italy, but that’s largely a ceremonial post, and the incumbent serves pretty much at the will of parliament anyway. The presidents of the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Uzbekistan...

... results. Some of the 7,000 site locations the United Nations sent to ISAF were villages that did not exist, were in the middle of rivers and gorges, or were located outside Afghanistan—in Uzbekistan or Tajikistan. We attempted to conduct reconnaissance of the polling sites, but the security situation and...