Antonio Guterres (file) (epa) November 11, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has arrived in Kyrgyzstan on his first visit to Central Asia since he started as the head of the UN's refugee agency in 2005.
November 8, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The Kazakh authorities' public enemy No. 1, Rakhat Aliev, has gone on trial along with more than 20 co-defendants.
ODIHR director Christian Strohal discussed election procedures in Astana (file photo) (OSCE) November 6, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- A visiting OSCE official has signaled the organization's readiness to continue cooperating with Kazakhstan on democracy and rights issues, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported.
The $18.7 billion program will result in new roads and rail links. (RFE/RL) November 3, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Eight member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program have agreed to a strategy to improve Central Asia's transport infrastructure.
November 2, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The Kazakh media has been caught in the crossfire as mudslinging continues between a former presidential son-in-law and the country's ruling elite.
Accusations by the controversial former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev shine an untimely spotlight on Astana as it seeks to win the chairmanship of the OSCE.
(RFE/RL) October 26, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Former Uzbek Judge Zokir Isaev has fled to neighboring Kazakhstan and applied for refugee status with the United Nations in Almaty.
October 24, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Authorities in Kazakhstan have suspended a ban on launches of one of the most functional rockets in the Russian space program, clearing the way for a liftoff to carry three global positioning satellites into space on October 26.
October 24, 2007 -- Kazakhstan has blocked four opposition news websites in a move that media freedom advocates called "political censorship" in a country increasingly seeking to portray itself as an emerging democracy.
Russia and Kazakhstan benefit from an influx of cheap labor from Central Asian countries, but migrants often face xenophobia, discrimination, or worse.
Rakhat Aliev is suspected in the disappearances of two officials (file photo) (OSCE) ALMATY, October 17, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Kazakh authorities say they have found the remains of a corpse that could be one of two missing bank executives at the center of a major political row.
October 17, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- A new report from the United Nations shows that the transition economies of the Commonwealth of Independent States and South East Europe are seeing the highest-ever levels of foreign direct investment (FDI). Foreign investors injected some $69 billion into the region last year, with Russia receiving the lion's share.
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