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Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 06:42
The new deadline for a new railway line that would connect the Caspian Sea to Turkey appears to be delayed yet again, making it highly unlikely that Georgia and Azerbaijan will profit much from U.S. military transportation business.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 06:17
But, according to police, this smokestack city of 400,000, some 35 kilometers outside of the capital, Baku, is a major source of Azerbaijani Muslims who go to fight, and often die, in Syria’s civil war.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 - 06:13
Tashkent hasn't responded to the subversive talk, but Shyrak speculated in an emailed press release on April 28 that Karimov's "urgent" visit to the region on April 25 was linked to "protest moods in Karakalpakstan which have grown against the backdrop of the dramatic events in Ukraine."
Monday, May 5, 2014 - 13:00
The railroad, recall, was built by Uzbekistan Railways with money from the Asian Development Bank after American military logisticians identified the Uzbekistan border as the most troublesome bottleneck in getting supplies into Afghanistan.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 13:46
“Sometimes it seems to me that Mr. Warlick seeks to resolve the #NagornoKarabakh conflict through his tweets,” tweeted Novruz Mammadov, deputy chief of staff to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 07:58
It's noteworthy that this formulation -- "defensive" anti-aircraft and anti-armor weapons -- is exactly that used by former President Mikhail Saakashvili. But where Saakashvili wanted the U.S. to give him those weapons, Alasania here is asking that NATO allies put them in Georgia.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 07:57
And curiously, the level of skepticism that the State Department used with respect to Central Asian governments didn't extend to Azerbaijan.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 09:21
The "people's mayor" of the breakaway town of Slavyansk, Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, told Time magazine that "his militia force... is made up partly of volunteers who have come from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other parts of the former Soviet Union."
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 09:18
“The government’s policy is to economically weaken its political opponents. The government is overestimating [our power], that’s why it is taking such measures,” Kabiri told EurasiaNet.org in a recent interview
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 09:03
Azerbaijan's arrest of a respected human-rights activist is fuelling fears that the country is pulling out all the stops on crushing dissent before it takes over the Council of Europe's Commission of Ministers next month.