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    Wednesday, March , 2010

    SCO: identity in crisis
    This year's SCO summit may turn out to be much more eventful that past summits, and may prove to be a milestone in its effort to become a new or alternative type of international organization. Full Story

    Tymoshenko's Bloc Barred from Ukrainian Elections
    KIEV -- Ukraine's elections commission Saturday refused to register candidates from Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc for next month's parliamentary elections, and supporters of the group erected a tent camp in central Kiev on Sunday to protest. Full Story

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  • Gazprom, Belarus hold gas debt talks

  • Russia, China command satisfied with SCO exercise dress rehearsal

  • Derailment that caused toxic spill in Ukraine result of safety violations

  • CIS: Apathy, impunity amid journalist killings
  • Kazakhstan to buy 10% of Westinghouse from Toshiba

  • Georgia faces tough UN push

  • Ukraine Will Not Contest Pinchuk's Rights Over Plant

  • Iran president to go on three-nation tour tomorrow
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    Citizen Journalism in Central Asia: Challenges and Opportunities of the Growing Online Community

    Certain technological innovations have changed the way societies function so fundamentally that they altered the course of history.  Inventions like the printing press, telephones, radio, and computer, to name a few, all ushered in new eras in human history.  The internet is one such innovation, and has already left its mark across the globe. Increasingly people are beginning to publish original reporting online. Central Asia, however, has yet to be substantially impacted by the internet, let alone any form of citizen journalism.

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  • Debate on “Russia: How Sovereign? How Democratic?” between Sergei Markov and Michael McFaul
    Dr. Sergei Markov started his presentation by noting that he has been a supporter of President Vladimir Putin. Markov believes that Russia was not democratic during the 1990s but began moving to a right direction under Putin.
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  • NGOs, Philanthropy, and the Fate of Russian Democracy
    Dr. Ariel Cohen began the briefing by noting that political pluralism in Russia has shrunk as political parties have been marginalized. In addition, President Vladimir Putin assumed control over the Duma and the media, especially television stations. The print media, which were free until about 2004, are increasingly picked up by rich businessmen. There are discussions in the Russian government to put limits on the Internet.
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  • Defending Human Rights in Uzbekistan in the “Age of Terror”: An Uzbek Lawyer Speaks Out
    The Constitution of Uzbekistan guarantees basic human and civil rights. However, violations of those rights are rampant in the country and the state limits the exercise of most of the rights, including freedom of speech, freedom of association, civil rights, right to defense and freedom from torture and ill treatment.
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  • EU-South Caucasus: Strategic Relationship or Strategic Failure?
    The conference focused on the question of the geopolitical importance of the South Caucasus to the European Union.
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  • Russia : Today, Tomorrow and in 2008
    Yuri Levada , founder and president of the Levada Center and one of the leading sociologists in Russia , gave a broad outline of domestic and foreign policy problems in Russia.
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    Meskhetian Turks are a group of ethnic Turks with a long history of discrimination and displacement. The traditional homeland of Meskhetian Turks is mountainous regions of the Republic of Georgia. In 1944, Stalin forcibly relocated the whole Meskhetian Turk population, most of which resettled in Uzbekistan. Meskhetian Turk tales of hardship and privation closely resemble those of other formerly deported peoples, including Crimean Tatars, Volga Germans, Chechens, and Ingush. Yet, Meskhetian Turks stand apart from most other World War II deportees because they were never collectively accused of a treasonous act.