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BISHKEK (TCA) — During a visit to the southern Batken region on October 13, Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev called a leading contender in the presidential race a “flunky” of a foreign country, as Kyrgyzstan prepares for the presidential vote to take place on October 15.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Central Election Commission says it will not send an observer to the October 15 presidential poll in neighboring Kyrgyzstan, citing what it called Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev’s “contrived” accusations of meddling in the campaign, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
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OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — How far stretches the might of war profiteers in the global economy? Further than many people think, and Central Asia’s ex-Soviet republics bordering the world’s staunchest zone of large-scale bloodshed are particularly exposed to it.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Greece should not extradite, deport or otherwise facilitate the return of a Tajik opposition activist to Tajikistan, where he faces possible torture or ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said on October 12. Mirzorakhim Kuzov, a senior leader of outlawed Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), was detained on October 9 by Greek police at passport control in Athens International Airport as he was in transit after attending a human rights conference in Warsaw, Poland.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The raft of reforms under way in Uzbekistan must invest in the promotion and protection of human rights, including freedom of religion or belief, a UN expert has concluded on October 12 at the end of an official visit to the country.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Long lines of cars, trucks, and frustrated travelers on foot stretched back from Kyrgyzstan’s border with Kazakhstan, which officials in Bishkek suspect has restricted movement across the border amid a politically charged dispute ahead of Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election on October 15, RFE/RL reports.
