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Page last updated at 13:44 GMT, Thursday, 3 April 2008 14:44 UK
Guide to Central Asia
Maps, facts and figures on the issues facing Central Asia, including insights into the huge region's politics, land and people.

KEY STORIES

Kazakhstan set to hold early poll
Kazakh HIV medics found guilty
Uzbekistan rejects EU criticism
Turkmen leader restores pensions
Kyrgyzstan leader 'was poisoned'
Tajikistan in $1bn hydropower bid
Confession frees Uzbek activist
Eighteen-month-old Sayat, who is HIV positive, and his grandmotherKazakh HIV scandal
Parents' fears for child victims of infected blood transfusions
Clearing a cluster bombLandmine legacy
Ten years on, Tajikistan's civil war still claims victims
Kurbanguly BerdymukhamedovMood change?
Turkmenistan's new president raises hopes for reform

FEATURES
Change afoot in ex-Soviet lands
In pictures: Uzbek Silk Road city
Outlook bleak in wake of Andijan
Almaty apples get new life
China's grip on Xinjiang Muslims
People power in Kyrgyzstan
Turkmen healthcare's grim truth
BACKGROUND
Central Asia: At-a-glance
How the Andijan killings unfolded
Analysis: Uzbekistan's 'Islamists'
China crackdown on separatists
Uighurs behind bars in China
Central Asia's water worries
Central Asia's deadly cargo
COUNTRY PROFILES
 
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Abro, 16-year-old schoolboyIndependence days
How Kyrgyz teens with no memory of the Soviet Union see life
Dam on the Aral SeaSaving the Aral
How a dam project could help restore Central Asia's sea
Children in TajikistanReaching out
Young Tajiks try to get street children back into school


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