By empty (6/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

An explosion took place in Dushanbe on 13 June outside the Emergency Situations Ministry and the Savings Bank of Tajikistan, RFE/RL\'s Tajik Service reported. Avesta quoted law-enforcement sources as saying that the blast force was equal to 50-100 grams of TNT equivalent. Dushanbe prosecutor Habibullah Vohidov said a cart of the sort used to haul goods at local bazaars exploded; he stressed that no one was killed.

By empty (6/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Uzbek President Islam Karimov met on 10 June in Tashkent with a delegation of Russian political analysts led by Politika foundation head Vyacheslav Nikonov. Noting that Uzbekistan is currently under \"information attack,\" Karimov told the Russian analysts, \"I am confident in your unbiased and objective evaluation of the issues.\" After a tour of Andijon, Nikonov said, \"The numbers of victims of the tragic events in Andijon that some foreign media have provided are clearly exaggerated.

By empty (6/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Security guards outside a hotel opened fire on hundreds of market traders who had come to the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh Monday to demand fair market practices, police said. Four people were wounded. About 350 people, half of them women, came from the border town of Kara-Suu to demonstrate against Bayaman Erkinbayev, an Osh-based legislator who is connected to the market in their town.