Kazakhstan
- 27 March 2012
- Kazakh Terror Trial Opens, Black Sea Neighbors Tussle
Plus, Tashkent again shuts off the gas to Tajikistan and Tallinn debates the merits of free bus rides.
- By Ky Krauthamer, Ioana Caloianu, Joshua Boissevain and Stephen Underwood
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- 23 March 2012
- For One Sea, Two Endings
The future of the Aral Sea looks very different depending on which shore you stand on.
- By EurasiaNet.org
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- 19 March 2012
- Belarus Executes Bombers, Dissenter’s Play Staged in Almaty
Plus, Macedonians march against ethnic violence and a cover girl emerges as the newest star of the Russian opposition.
- By Ky Krauthamer, Ioana Caloianu, and Joshua Boissevain
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- 12 March 2012
- Slovakia Turns Left, Russia Boots Legal Aid Group
Plus, ethnic violence picks up in Macedonia and Kazakhstan frees striking oil workers’ lawyer.
- By Barbara Frye and Ioana Caloianu
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- 27 February 2012
- Putin Death Plot Foiled, Slovenia Wants Belarusian Mogul Off Blacklist

Plus, Kosovo and Serbia agree to disagree at international meetings and a Czech art hunter discovers a cache of bad but valuable paintings.
- By Ky Krauthamer, Ioana Caloianu, and Joshua Boissevain
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- 15 February 2012
- Independent Voices in Russia Under New Pressure, Baku Woos Journalists
Plus, Astana may need a new game plan and Serbs in northern Kosovo seek influence in hugely different ways.
- By Barbara Frye, Ioana Caloianu, and Joshua Boissevain
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- 1 February 2012
- Kazakh Human Rights Defender to Walk Free, Eastern Europe Hit by Deadly Cold
Plus, ethnic tensions flare in Macedonia and a lost account of a Nazi purge in Krakow surfaces.
- By Barbara Frye and Ioana Caloianu
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- 30 January 2012
- Serbia Renationalizes Steelworks, Iran Denies Involvement in Azeri Terror Plot
Plus, Hungary’s president accused of plagiarism and Ceausescu souvenirs go on the auction block.
- By Ky Krauthamer, Ioana Caloianu, and Kelly Klein
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- 30 January 2012
- Mazbaev of the Antarctic
A 57-year-old geographer goes through icy hell to plant Kazakhstan’s flag at the South Pole.
- By Dariya Tsyrenzhapova
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- 25 January 2012
- Home Again, Sixty-Seven Years Later

Expelled by Stalin, one Meskhetian family finally makes it back to Georgia.
- By Temo Bardzimashvili
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