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Witnesses report fuel and power shortages in Uzbekistan
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[Telegraph.co.uk] - By James Kilner, Almaty Media reports and eyewitnesses have described long queues at petrol stations, power cuts which penetrate into the heart of Tashkent, the capital, and how some regional towns go days without running water.
Kazakhstan frees top human rights defender
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[Telegraph.co.uk] - By James Kilner, Almaty The decision to release Zhovtis, who has been held in a prison in the east of the country since he was convicted of manslaughter in 2009, was timed to coincide with a meeting in Washington between Yerzhan Kazykhanov
Stand-off at strike in west Kazakhstan avoided
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[Telegraph.co.uk] - By James Kilner, Almaty Unlike in the town of Zhanaozen where the authorities refused to give striking oil workers a pay rise, this time company managers quickly agreed to a 25 per cent pay increase, Kazakh media reported. About 300 workers at Senimdi
Kazakh senator appears in cathedral's fresco
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[Telegraph.co.uk] - By James Kilner, Almaty Sergey Kulagin was touring a new cathedral in Rudniy, in northwest Kazakhstan, near the Russian border, where until earlier this month he had been governor. The centrepiece of the new cathedral's interior was a large fresco on
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