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- 17 February 2010
- Slow-Motion Catastrophe
Some Mongolians are in the grips of a humanitarian crisis that will last at least through the winter. From EurasiaNet.
- By Andrew Cullen
- 10 February 2010
- Deep Trouble
Baikal, the world’s deepest lake, loses some of its hard-won protection.
- By Elizabeth Trammell
- 1 December 2009
- School for Scandal
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Alleged abuse at an Armenian school for the disabled led to a criminal probe – of the young activist who blew the whistle.
- By Onnik Krikorian
- 12 August 2009
- Home Sick
- Ten years after being displaced by war, hundreds of Kosovar Roma still live where the UN put them – atop a toxic dump. A TOL multimedia presentation.
- By Michael J. Jordan
- 15 July 2009
- Black Hole
- As their industry declines, Ukraine’s angry coal miners take their grievances to Kyiv.
- By Nataliya Boyko
- 1 June 2009
- Radioactive Legacy Vexes Bishkek
- Health problems and toxic waste plague Kyrgyzstan’s onetime uranium mining capital. From EurasiaNet.
- By David Trilling
- 27 May 2009
- Wrong Way
- The need to stimulate the economy is no excuse for throwing money at road projects at the expense of trains and trams.
- By Pavel Pribyl
- 26 May 2009
- Ships and Seals
- A new port on the Caspian would move tremendous amounts of oil, but would it also do tremendous damage to the environment?
- By Abdujalil Abdurasulov
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