| 23 Aprel 2008 09:54 |
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 It turns out the "European price" that Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan will receive from Gazprom for natural gas exports in 2009 may only be a fraction of what Brussels pays for imports. Earlier this year, Gazprom announced it would pay Central Asian natural gas producers "European prices" starting 2009. A specific price, however, was not set at that time, prompting speculation that Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan would seek in excess of $300 per thousand cubic meters (tcm). |
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| 12 March 2008 08:41 |
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Sanobar Shermatova (member of the RIA Novosti Expert Council) - The possibility of Uzbekistan changing its foreign policy was first mooted after NATO Special Representative Robert Simmons told a Moscow press conference that the U.S. would be given access to a military base in that country. » |
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| 15 January 2008 09:26 |
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 "He was the British ambassador," says Alieva. "The club I worked in was full of ambassadors and rich businessmen but they would creep around. Craig was different. He was very open about everything. He didn't hide like the others. He said, 'Why should I hide?' I thought that was pretty special." |
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| 19 September 2007 10:10 |
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Fakhriddin Nizamov, member of RIA Novosti Expert Council. The European Union has been reaching out to new Central Asian states since the 1990s, but lack of a single strategy has often led to a clash of interests between its different agencies. » |
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| 12 September 2007 09:28 |
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European authorities were on alert on the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks today as Turkish police defused a powerful bomb and German authorities mounted a major security operation at a US military base. » |
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| 03 September 2007 10:22 |
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Russia and China have moved to turn the six-member Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), where India is now an observer, into a security alliance. The other members are Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyztan and Kazakhstan. Last month the SCO conducted its biggest ever ‘anti-terrorist’ exercise, involving thousands of Russian, Chinese and Central Asian troops and hundreds of tanks, armoured vehicles and combat planes, near Chelyabinsk, in Siberia. » |
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| 26 July 2007 10:31 |
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 The International community still remains skeptical as to Uzbekistan, the country located in Central Asia as the most significant state in the region, as to its prospects as an emerging civil society and still seems clouded with doubts whereas a journalist of "Uzbekistan Today" who made a presentation of the country of over 26 million people, within an international conference on exploring liberty seems to have done a good job clearing these doubts clouding the western eyes. |
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| 13 July 2007 11:26 |
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Fakhriddin Nizamov, the member of the Expert Council of RIA Novosti, www.registan.net. On 1st of June on the website of “RIA Novosti” I published my article “Central Asia confronting the global threats”. After few days on one of the English language websites appeared a narration of Mr. J. Foust “Threats to Central Asia?” where the author blames me for being biased. Polemic of views – something appropriate and useful. If the point of view of Foust could claim for objective approach. » |
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| 13 June 2007 14:05 |
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As Washington sees a reversal of fortunes in its post-9/11 gains in Central Asia, Russia steps in to fill the gap in its former backyard. » |
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| 13 June 2007 10:41 |
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The UN Development Program's Beijing-based Silk Road Initiative (SRI) wants to rebuild the old road which brought Chinese goods to Europe, with a view to sharing China's prosperity with its western neighbors. Central Asia would contribute natural and human resources in return. » |
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| 10 June 2007 18:33 |
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The director of the Tashkent-based Regional Policy Foundation, Saifiddin Zhuraev, ridiculed Nazarbaev's past and present union initiatives. Zhuraev called them ill prepared and built on sand. He also suggested that such grand integration projects are aimed at "stating loudly once again that their authors are regional 'leaders'" and at fulfilling other public-relations goals. » |
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| 08 June 2007 09:06 |
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Fakhriddin Nizamov, the member of the Expert Council of RIA Novosti, The Post Chronicle: "Regional security does not wholly depend on internal factors. Big geopolitical players are skillfully using destabilizing elements such as separatism, ethnic problems or suppression of political rights in order to enhance their influence". » |
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| 04 June 2007 10:37 |
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Gazprom now buys about 55 billion cubic meters a year from the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, which is 10 percent of its own production. » |
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| 29 May 2007 09:30 |
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Angry supporters of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, the ethnic Uzbek strongman, clashed with the police in the northern town of Shiberghan on Monday, leaving at least seven people dead and 34 wounded, officials said. The government sent army units to the area, anticipating further unrest. » |
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| 15 May 2007 12:47 |
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Last Thursday, Russia's President Putin arrived in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, for the start of a week-long visit to Central Asia, which will focus on energy. » |
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