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| | Radicus Internet - Former Soviet republics in Central Asia |
 | | PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- After agreeing to expand their alliance deep into the former Soviet bloc, NATO leaders were reaching out Friday to the Central Asian nations whose assistance proved vital in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. | | | ASHKHABAD, Dec 29 (AFP) - An arrested opposition leader in the Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan was shown on television Sunday with his face puffed, saying in slurred tones he had plotted to kill the president while under the influence of drugs. | | | ASTANA, July 18 (AFP) - Former energy minister and Kazakh opposition leader Mukhtar Ablyazov was sentenced to six years in jail Thursday for abuse of power and illegal business activities. |
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| | Central Asia - encyclopedia article about Central Asia. |
| | Central Asian Republics The Central Asian Republics are five countries located in Central Asia that were former republics of the Soviet Union. | | | Central Asia has served more as the battleground for outside powers, than as a power in its own right. | | | Central Asia is an extremely large region of varied geography, including high plateaus and mountains (Tian Shan), vast deserts (Kara Kum, Kyzyl Kum, Taklamakan), and especially treeless, grassy steppes. |
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| | Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. | | | The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of the European continent and the northern portion of the Asian continent. | | | The KGB (Committee for State Security), served in a fashion as the Soviet counterpart to both the FBI and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the U.S. It ran a massive network of informants throughout the Soviet Union, which was used to monitor violations in law. |
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| | Footnotes to History- C |
| | Chinese Islamic Republic- The Hui Muslims, descendants of Persian and Central Asian refugees, occupy the Ningxia region of central China. | | | Central America, United Provinces of- After the collapse of Spanish authority, Agustin Iturbide declared himself Emperor of Mexico in 1822. | | | Central Lithuania- After the First World War, Poland and Lithuania went to war over the city of Vilna (now Vilnius). |
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| | Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. | | | The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of the European continent and the northern portion of the Asian continent. | | | The main tasks of the congress were the election of the standing legislature, the Supreme Soviet, and the election of the chairman of the Supreme Soviet, who acted as head of state. |
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Central Asia's river rivalry |
| | Despite the fact that much of this region is actually desert or arid steppe, for residents of the Soviet Central Asian republics, water appeared to be plentiful and free. | | | Villagers living along the Syr Darya river in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan have spent the past few weeks worrying about whether their lands and houses are about to be flooded. | | | In Central Asia, water has long been taken for granted. |
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| | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | It was the capital of the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan until 1997, when the capital was changed to Astana. | | | Overview of the Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit. | | | the major political party of Russia and the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of October 1917 to 1991. |
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| | Prophecy Central: Russia |
| | The meeting from which Putin is returning is the summit of the "Shanghai Five," consisting of Russia, China and the Central Asian former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kirgizia and Tajikistan. | | | Analysists believe it will be timed to bolster President Putin's reelection campaign. | | | The Russian president's efforts have been aimed at creating a democratic 'multi-polar world,' (as opposed to the uni-polar domination of the United States). |
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| | Heralding an Asian Century |
| | As for Sino-Indian relations, while these have been historically fraught over border disputes, both giants are concerned about the US military presence in the Central Asian republics, as well as Iraq and the Gulf, undermining their own oil and energy interests. | | | “With explicit policies in most East and Southeast Asian countries of increasing mutual cooperation and interaction, it is as if a huge convention is underway to which the United States is not invited,” states the report. | | | A recent CIA-commissioned intelligence report suggests the rise of China and India is heralding an Asian Century in place of a receding American Century. |
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| | ISCIP - Perspective |
| | We have several Central Asian republics with a common border with China. | | | Lizichev, and CPSU Central Committee Secretary Falin strongly criticized this volume, for which I was responsible. | | | It's all a single process and for this reason a special military reform committee chaired by Gen. Konstantin Kobets, attached to the State Committee under the President, is being created for determining policy and strategy and for carrying out military reform. |
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| | Asian GIS Data License Price List: Soviet Union, Russia, China, South-East and South Asia |
| | Data for the entire former Soviet Union are available, and the Economic Regions of the Russian Federation and the Ukraine are available separately, as are the Baltic, Transcaucasus and Central Asian Economic Regions. | | | ADM2 refers to the Oblast', Krai, and Autonomous Republics, Oblast', and Okrug that were subdivisions of the SS Republics and are now the primary divisions of the NIS. | | | Boundary data updated to the mid-1990s for any administrative units of the Russian Federation can also be supplied, as required. |
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| | Central Asian Republics The Central Asian Republics are five republics of the Soviet Union. | | | Asian Fairy Bluebird Irena puella (1790) The Asian Fairy Bluebird ( Irena puella) is a medium-sized bird. | | | Asian brown cloud The Asian Brown Cloud is an enormous three kilometre thick layer of haze covering the northern toxic i... |
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| | Central Asia - encyclopedia article about Central Asia. |
| | Central Asian Republics The Central Asian Republics are five countries located in Central Asia that were former republics of the Soviet Union. | | | Central Asia is an extremely large region of varied geography, including high plateaus and mountains (Tian Shan), vast deserts (Kara Kum, Kyzyl Kum, Taklamakan), and especially treeless, grassy steppes. | | | Central Asia's New States: Independence, Foreign policy, and Regional security. |
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| | Central Asia - encyclopedia article about Central Asia. |
| | Central Asian Republics The Central Asian Republics are five countries located in Central Asia that were former republics of the Soviet Union. | | | Central Asia is an extremely large region of varied geography, including high plateaus and mountains (Tian Shan), vast deserts (Kara Kum, Kyzyl Kum, Taklamakan), and especially treeless, grassy steppes. | | | Central Asia had both the advantage and disadvantage of a central location between four historical seats of power. |
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| | Central Asia - encyclopedia article about Central Asia. |
| | Central Asian Republics The Central Asian Republics are five countries located in Central Asia that were former republics of the Soviet Union. | | | Central Asia is an extremely large region of varied geography, including high plateaus and mountains (Tian Shan), vast deserts (Kara Kum, Kyzyl Kum, Taklamakan), and especially treeless, grassy steppes. | | | Eurasia Daily Monitor — political, strategic, and economic news from Central Asia. |
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| | Central Asia - encyclopedia article about Central Asia. |
| | Central Asian Republics The Central Asian Republics are five countries located in Central Asia that were former republics of the Soviet Union. | | | Central Asia is an extremely large region of varied geography, including high plateaus and mountains (Tian Shan), vast deserts (Kara Kum, Kyzyl Kum, Taklamakan), and especially treeless, grassy steppes. | | | According to the Köppen climate classification system, Central Asia is part of the Palearctic ecozone. |
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| | Central Asia - encyclopedia article about Central Asia. |
| | Central Asian Republics The Central Asian Republics are five countries located in Central Asia that were former republics of the Soviet Union. | | | Central Asia is an extremely large region of varied geography, including high plateaus and mountains (Tian Shan), vast deserts (Kara Kum, Kyzyl Kum, Taklamakan), and especially treeless, grassy steppes. | | | Eurasia Daily Monitor — political, strategic, and economic news from Central Asia. |
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| | The Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University |
| | Central Asia Fiction is a new on-line literary journal, dedicated to the promotion and development of literary fiction about modern life in the Central Asian republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. | | | Musical Nomad is an interactive journey through Central Asian Music, brought to you by the BBC. | | | Central Asia Compliance Monitor, published by the Law and Environment Eurasia Partnership (LEEP), is a bi-monthly short electronic journal (in.pdf format) on the status of and issues related to Central Asia's (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) integration into international environmental regimes. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Soviet Union |
| | The Central Asian Republics are five countries located in Central Asia that were former Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan The Central Asian Republics are sometimes referred to as Central Asia, although others prefer this term to be reserved for a larger geographic region within Asia rather than a designation given... | | | The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. | | | The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of the European continent and the northern portion of the Asian continent. |
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| | Map Zones : Turkmenistan Map |
| | With Turkmens constituting 77 percent of the population, Turkmenistan is the most ethnically homogeneous of the Central Asian republics. | | | Turkmenistan is the least populated of the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia. | | | In addition, to ensure its national security and trade prospects, Turkmenistan has charted an independent course in establishing a military alliance with Russia and trade and security agreements with Iran and Central Asian countries. |
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| | Central Asian Republics - Open Encyclopedia |
| | The Central Asian Republics are five countries located in Central Asia that were former republics of the Soviet Union. | | | The Central Asian Republics are sometimes referred to as Central Asia, although others prefer this term to be reserved for a larger geographic region within Asia rather than a designation given to specific Soviet republics. |
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| | Terrorism, Afghanistan, United States, Russia |
| | The Central Asian republics - I refer to former USSR republics - seem to be quite satisfied with this turn of events. | | | The Central Asian republics already have been on dates with the Russian suitor. | | | By fighting in Afghanistan, the USA is seeking not only the annihilation of Usamah Bin-Ladin and the terrorist organization al-Qa'ida. The experts believe that long-term geostrategic interests in Central Asia are much more important for the USA. |
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| | A Routledge Title: Central Asian Survey |
| | Foremost among these are the republics of former Soviet Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Crimea, and the Muslim Ibero-Caucasian and Turkic peoples of the North Caucasus, Middle Volga and Urals whose territories are included in the Russian Federation. | | | Central Asian Survey is the only established refereed journal in the world concerned primarily with the history, politics, cultures, religions and economics of the Central Asian and Caucasian regions. | | | Central Asian Survey is indexed and abstracted in: America: History and Life; CAB Abstracts; Ebsco Research Database; GEOBASE; Historical Abstracts; IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences); Periodica Islamica; International Political Science Abstracts; International Development Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts and Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts. |
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| | portland imc - 2002.12.10 - US Central Command's Area of Responsibility |
| | Pakistan and Afghanistan's developing relationships with the Central Asian Republics to the north, along with Iran's military buildup to the west, add new dimensions, which could change the geopolitical outlook, further undermining stability. | | | South and Central Asia: USCENTCOM's South Asian area consists of Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan; all are important to the United States and face daunting challenges. | | | The addition of the five Central Asian States has brought new challenges and opportunities to US Central Command's area of responsibility. |
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| | According to it, Central Asia includes Mongolia, Western China (including Tibet), northeast Iran, Afghanistan and western Pakistan, central-east Russia south of the Taiga, the former Central Asian Soviet Republics (the five "Stans" of the former Soviet Union), but also even the Punjab, northern India and Pakistan. | | | Islam is the religion most common in the former Soviet Central Asian Republics, Afghanistan, Xinjiang and the peripheral western regions. | | | The UNESCO general history of Central Asia, written just before the collapse of the USSR, defines the region based on climate and uses far larger borders. |
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| | Strategic Significance of Pakistan |
| | These events cover the globe: from Palestine to the Philippines, from Kashmir to Kuwait, from Cyprus to Chechnya, from Bangladesh to Bosnia, from the Central Asian Islamic republics to Morocco and the Sahara, from Turkey to Brunei and Yemen. | | | The resurgence of Islam in the six Central Asian republics has provoked competing ambitions of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia for influence in the area. | | | The relative success of the Economic Cooperation Organization and the failure of SAARC are institutional reflections of the tighter linkage of Pakistan with Central Asia than with the subcontinent. |
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| | Central Asian Studies - Publications - Kirghiz Bulletin |
| | Between April 11th and 13th, 1996, a conference was held on the "Struggle for Modernization and Democratization in the Central Asian Republics" at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. | | | Their story began in 1924, the same year that the Central Asian republics were first established. | | | I myself was attending the conference together with students and members of the faculty of the University of Washington, Seattle, where I was giving a special course on "Central Asian Writers and Intellectuals During the Soviet Period". |
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| | Soviet Union Annals @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) |
| | The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian (colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties. | | | The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of the European continent and the northern portion of the Asian continent. | | | Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania were immediately granted independence, while the other 12 republics continued discussing new, increasingly looser, models of the Union. |
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| | MBG: Research: Russia: Ornamental plants from Russia |
| | The main area of the Central Asian Center includes the mountainous regions of the Central Asian Republics (the former "Soviet Middle Asian Republics" according to S. Hollis & R.K. Brummitt) and part of Afghanistan. | | | The entire area is included in the Iranian-Turanian Floristic Region, covering some floristic provinces of the Western Asiatic and the Central Asiatic Floristic Subregions. | | | In Vavilov's estimation, this area was so significant that he rated it as third in overall importance to agriculture. |
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| | Central Asia and the Caucasus |
| | Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union- Articles and Resource Page on the Central Asian Republics | | | The Central Asian NGO Network is part of the NGO Support Initiative for Central Asia, a project made possible through the support of USAID and managed by Counterpart International Inc. | | | The Central Asia Institute promotes literacy, women's vocational skills, and awareness of public health and environmental issues through community initiated education programs in mountain regions of Central Asia. |
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