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• Georgia: Saakashvili Pledges to Create a Nation of English Speakers

  As Georgia?s school year gets underway, the country?s polyglot president is betting a thousand native English speakers can jump start an ambitious new policy to make English Georgia?s second language.

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• Gasoline Shortage Gripping Uzbekistan

  These days Mahsumjon Abdullaev, a taxi driver in Uzbekistan?s eastern city of Ferghana, has to wake up early every morning to join a long line of drivers who must wait hours to fill up their vehicles at a government-operated gas station. A deepening fuel shortage is abetting corruption and spreading widespread frustration across the country, according to Abdullaev.

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• Kyrgyzstan: Mayhem at Activist's Trial Highlights Lingering Interethnic Tension

  With shops, schools and even nightclubs in southern Kyrgyzstan re-opening, daily life in the strife-torn region is slowly assuming a veneer of normalcy.

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• Kyrgyzstan Offers Pardon Deal to Suspected Embezzlers

  Kyrgyzstan?s provisional government is offering a deal to suspected white-collar criminals: repay the funds you are believed to have embezzled from the state and charges against you will be dropped.

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• Azerbaijan: Corporate Spending Pumps Up Soccer League

  Soccer in Azerbaijan has caught the fancy of some of the country?s leading corporations, which are spending tens of millions of dollars to upgrade facilities and sign high-profile coaches and players from around the world.

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• Turkey: Istanbul Ramadan Routine Begins with Drum Beat

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• Armenia: Army Non-Combat Deaths Prompt Calls for Reform

  After the deaths of seven soldiers this summer in non-combat-related shootings, public pressure for reform is coming to bear on one of Armenia?s most closed institutions -- its armed forces.

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• Are Tajikistan?s Security Services Breaking Down?

  Tajikistan?s security services are in the spotlight following two recent explosions and an audacious jailbreak in the Central Asian nation. The violence may be an indicator of faulty government personnel policies, some experts suggest.

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