Uncertainty grips Uzbekistan as leader's term ends
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If there is one common concern that people in Uzbekistan share it is their president's silence.
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Washington's plans to beef up its military base in Uzbekistan as part of a troop realignment abroad could whip up tensions between the impoverished ex-Soviet republic's secular government and radical Islamic groups, analysts and opposition politicians say.
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Uzbekistan is to vote in a presidential election widely expected to be won by incumbent Islam Karimov.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 20 (IPS) - With the attention of the world's media rarely  turned towards Central Asia, it is easy to forget about the  Andijan massacre of May 2005. Several hundred demonstrators died  when Uzbek government forces opened fire on a demonstration, in  what is believed to be the worst mass killing since the 1989  Tiananmen Square massacre in China.
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Turkmenistan was choosing a new president in its first contested election on Sunday but the outcome was beyond doubt and diplomats say they expect at best only gradual change in the reclusive Central Asian country.
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BUCHAREST, Dec 13 (IPS) - The unexpected victory of opposition leader Traian  Basescu has brought new political uncertainties to Romania.
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The announcement Thursday that King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia would abdicate his throne because of poor health has raised new uncertainties for a country with
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As Russia prepares for March 2 presidential elections, it enters an era of political uncertainty it hasn't seen since President Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin eight years ago.
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Pakistan was Saturday gripped by division and uncertainty following the burial of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as her supporters angrily rejected a government explanation of her death.
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Uzbekistan's parliamentary election on  Sunday fell significantly short of international standards  because it featured only parties loyal to President Islam  Karimov, Europe's main human rights body said on Monday.
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In 1991, landlocked Uzbekistan became a sovereign nation after decades of Russian and Soviet influence. Since 1990, Islam Karimov has been the areaâs most notorious politician.
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A familiar foreboding has set in, akin to the disintegration at the end of the Soviet occupation in 1989.
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The British ambassador to Uzbekistan could be facing the sack for his outspoken criticism of the regime in Tashkent which he accuses of widespread torture of opponents.
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Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's only president since independence from Soviet rule, was heading for certain victory on Monday following a weekend presidential election condemned as a sham by the opposition.
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Announcement ends formal reign of a man who outlasted nine U.S. presidents as well as his communist patrons in the former Soviet Union.
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The exit from the world stage of Palestinian leader and icon Yasser Arafat will mark the end of a turbulent era, and the beginning of a period of uncertainty and possible instability in the volatile cauldron of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Turkmenistan's voters are choosing a successor to the late autocratic president amid hopes of a political thaw.