News Digest
KYRGYZ STATE TELEVISION STAFF WANTS PUBLIC CONTROL
By empty (4/25/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Employees of Kyrgyzstan\'s National Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation (NTRK) held a news conference on 22 April demanding that state-run television be transformed into public television, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. They stated, \"The destabilization of the information front will continue until NTRK becomes public television.\" Jainagul Maksimova, chair of the group Journalists for Law and Order and the head of a broadcasting company in Chuy Province, said, \"Kyrgyz TV carries out the same political orders now as it did under the previous regime,\" akipress.FORMER TAJIK OFFICIAL SENTENCED FOR HIZB UT-TAHRIR LINK
By empty (4/25/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A court in Tajikistan\'s Sughd Province on 22 April sentenced Davron Jabborov to a 10-year prison term and confiscation of his property for membership in the banned Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir and bigamy, RFE/RL\'s Tajik Service reported. Jabborov had worked in the counterterrorism section of the security services in Sughd Province from 1995 to 1998 before he was dismissed for a firearm mishap that led to the death of a colleague. Although Jabborov admitted to membership in Hizb ut-Tahrir, he denied any guilt, saying, \"The sentence is unjust, since it was not proven that I broke the law, because Hizb ut-Tahrir does not set the goal of overthrowing the government by force.GEORGIAN BORDER GUARDS FIND MINES ON BORDER WITH TURKEY
By empty (4/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian border guards found 12 anti-personnel mines dating from Soviet times on the border with Turkey, a spokesman for the Georgian Border Service told Interfax on Tuesday. \"It was common practice in Soviet times to plant mines along the border to prevent border violations, but Russian frontier guards should have left their Georgian colleagues mine maps, something they failed to do. Today we face the threat of potential mine explosions because we don\'t know where these mines are located,\" the spokesman said.GEORGIA\'S POSITION ON RUSSIAN BASES BECOMING MORE REALISTIC – SOURCE
By empty (4/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Progress made recently at Russian- Georgian negotiations on the withdrawal of Russian military bases from that country is due to the fact that Tbilisi has taken a more realistic attitude towards this issue, a Moscow-based diplomatic source told Interfax on Tuesday. \"When Russia talks about a convergence between Moscow\'s and Tbilisi\'s positions concerning the time and conditions of the presence of the Russian military bases on Georgian territory, it is implied that Georgia has begun to discuss more realistic dates for their withdrawal,\" the source said. (Interfax).Visit also
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