Uzbekistan's Prime Minister has sent a letter to his Tajik counterpart warning Dushanbe of potential damage by the Roghun hydropower plant to Central Asia's "frail environmental balance.” Shavkat Mirziyaev said Uzbekistan "would take the matter further” if Tajikistan ignores Uzbekistan's warning.
A U.S. agency that monitors human rights around the world has welcomed Kazakhstan as the new chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), but cautioned the former Soviet republic that it must improve its own rights record if it wants to be effective in its new role.
Twenty jailed policemen have taken part in an act of self-mutilation to protest their planned transfer to a common prison, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Kazakh officials have seized editions of at least five opposition and independent newspapers that contain an article alleging corruption by President Nursultan Nazarbaev's son-in-law, Timur Kulibaev, who is suing the newspapers, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Kazakh police arrested 11 activists from the opposition Algha (Forward) party in Astana today, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Kazakh Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabaev begins a three-day U.S. visit today in his role as chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
The Open Society Justice Initiative is urging the UN Human Rights Committee to review the case of imprisoned Kazakh human rights defender Yevgeny Zhovtis.
About 100 protesters in downtown Bishkek today demanded that the government do more to protect Kyrgyz migrant workers' rights in neighboring Kazakhstan, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
Fugitive Kazakh businessman Mukhtar Ablyazov has urged Chinese authorities to investigate a Kazakh-Chinese oil and gas deal that he claims was corrupt, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
Kazakh protesters scuffled with police today at a rally against their government's burgeoning ties with neighbouring China.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev today called for the first Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) summit of heads of state in 11 years to be held in Astana, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
A Kazakh woman has filed a lawsuit against Uzbek President Islam Karimov and the Kazakh Interior Ministry following her son's unexplained death in Uzbekistan last year.
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