News Digest
TAJIKS TO NEED UZBEK VISAS FOR TRANSIT
By empty (10/26/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tajik citizens returning to Tajikistan by train through Uzbekistan will now need Uzbek visas, Tajik Border Protection Committee official Khalil Boboev told Avesta on 26 October. Boboev said that Tajikistan has received official notice from Uzbek authorities that \"only after receiving a visa for the Republic of Uzbekistan will it be possible to make travel arrangements [through Uzbekistan back to Tajikistan].\" (Avesta).KAZAKH OPPOSITION CHARGES HARASSMENT OF JAILED LEADER
By empty (10/25/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The opposition party Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan charged in a 21 October statement published by \"Navigator\" the next day that imprisoned party leader Ghalymzhan Zhaqiyanov is enduring rights violations while under house arrest in a \"settlement colony.\" According to the statement, colony authorities have refused to let Zhaqiyanov work either for the regional branch of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights or as a guard in a local school. Instead, \"they have given him an ultimatum demanding that he either work in a boiler room or do loading work in the steppe,\" even though Zhaqiyanov is in poor health.ACCELERATED DEPOPULATION THREATENS RUSSIA\'S EXISTENCE
By empty (10/25/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The State Statistics Committee (Goskomstat) announced on 21 October that in the first eight months of 2004, the population of Russia fell by 504,000 to 143.7 million. The decrease was mainly the result of the difference between the birthrate (1.TURKMEN LEADER AMNESTIES 9,000, RAISES SALARIES, AND OPENS MOSQUE
By empty (10/22/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Saparmurat Niyazov has signed a decree amnestying 9,000 prisoners, turkmenistan.ru reported on 24 October. The amnesty will take place on the Muslim holiday of Laylat al-Qadr, known in Turkmen as Gadyr Gijesi, which falls on 10 November.Visit also
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