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		<title>Relaunch of ETG Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeBN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear all: Our team did a relaunch of the ETG web site, which is now online. Therefore we&#8217;ll close our blog here at WordPress and move back to our genuine adress (www.eurasiantransition.org). Please visit it, bookmark or use the rss-feed. ETG wishes you all a peaceful Christmas and a happy and successful year 2009. Eurasian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurasiantransition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4833145&amp;post=128&amp;subd=eurasiantransition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Real Improvement In Turkmenistan&#8217;s Human Rights, Expert Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francois Petre, a Eastern Europe and Central Asia program officer for the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), says there has been no real improvement in the human rights situation in Turkmenistan in recent times. Petre told RFE/RL&#8217;s Turkmen Service that the improvements that have been made are &#8220;facade improvements.&#8221; She says &#8220;Turkmenistan seems to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurasiantransition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4833145&amp;post=126&amp;subd=eurasiantransition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GERMANY, AUSTRIA EMBRACE REALPOLITIK IN THEIR DEALINGS WITH ASHGABAT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global economic slowdown appears to be giving Turkmenistan&#8217;s leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, a boost. Turkmenistan&#8217;s own relative isolation has proven a benefit during these tough economic times, shielding Ashgabat from some of the worst effects of the worldwide credit crunch. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. At the same time, the crisis has infused [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurasiantransition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4833145&amp;post=124&amp;subd=eurasiantransition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TOP EU OFFICIAL VISITS TASHKENT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pierre Morel, the European Union Special Representative for Central Asia, arrived in Uzbekistan on December 1 for discussions designed to boost political and economic relations. A series of EU dignitaries have visited Tashkent over the past eight weeks, including the presidents of Latvia and Bulgaria, and foreign ministers of Hungary and Romania. It is perhaps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurasiantransition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4833145&amp;post=122&amp;subd=eurasiantransition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kazakhstan Offers Help With Ossetian, Abkhaz Talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASTANA (Reuters) &#8212; Kazakhstan, a former Soviet state with good ties to Russia and Georgia, believes it can help resolve the future of the rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Prime Minister Karim Masimov has told Reuters. Georgia and Russia fought a brief war in August over South Ossetia, a pro-Moscow region which threw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurasiantransition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4833145&amp;post=120&amp;subd=eurasiantransition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Report Documents Continued Use of Child Labor in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Sector in Fall 2008 Harvest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report from the International Labor Rights Forum and a group of human rights defenders in Uzbekistan documents continued child labor in cotton fields in Uzbekistan in the Fall 2008 harvest season. Contrary to the government of Uzbekistan’s assertions that it has banned forced child labor, recent information suggests it continues to compel children [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurasiantransition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4833145&amp;post=118&amp;subd=eurasiantransition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fields of Nightmares</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Tajikistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tajikistan is definitely a beautiful country, but its cotton picking policies leave an indelible black mark on its reputation. Cotton picking in this country is a dirty practice that enslaves students and restricts the growth of this majestic country. Due to the greed of a few rich cotton brokers, working for the local and national [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurasiantransition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4833145&amp;post=115&amp;subd=eurasiantransition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uzbek Children In &#8216;HIV Outbreak&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://eurasiantransition.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/uzbek-children-in-hiv-outbreak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeBN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 40 young children have been infected with HIV at a hospital in Uzbekistan, officials have said. Health authorities told the BBC that an investigation into the infections of the mainly new-born babies was taking place in the eastern town of Namangan. The United Nations says Central Asia has one of the world&#8217;s fastest-growing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurasiantransition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4833145&amp;post=113&amp;subd=eurasiantransition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CENTRAL ASIA: KYRGYZSTAN, TAJIKISTAN AND UZBEKISTAN CONFRONT A FINANCIAL DISASTER</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A financial catastrophe is looming for Central Asia’s poorest countries, as migrant workers in the once booming powerhouses of Russia and Kazakhstan are having increasing trouble finding work, and are thus unable to send cash back to loved ones in impoverished Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. For years, remittances has have kept the Kyrgyz, Tajik and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurasiantransition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4833145&amp;post=111&amp;subd=eurasiantransition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EU Preparing To Upgrade Turkmenistan Relations</title>
		<link>http://eurasiantransition.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/eu-preparing-to-upgrade-turkmenistan-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EU institutions are preparing to normalise relations with Turkmenistan, laying aside human rights benchmarks in a bureaucratic process marked by apathy and mistrust. The European Parliament&#8217;s international trade committee has invited the European Commission to brief MEPs about the political situation in the gas-rich dictatorship at its next meeting on 2 December. The briefing will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eurasiantransition.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4833145&amp;post=109&amp;subd=eurasiantransition&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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