Rusting hydropower station materials sit idle. (Photo by David Trilling)

Tajikistan: World Bank Offer Energizes Rogun Hydropower Project
BY KONSTANTIN PARSHIN
A World Bank offer to underwrite an environmental feasibility study for the proposed Rogun hydropower project could mark a decisive moment in the Central Asian state's efforts to become an electricity exporter.

Georgia: Alleged Telephone Tapes Stir Controversy over Fake Russian Invasion Report
BY MOLLY CORSO
Tape recordings have surfaced that suggest Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili may have had a role in the broadcast of a fake television report about a Russian invasion of Georgia. People said to be caught on one tape discussing the hoax have adamantly denied its authenticity, saying the recording is the work of Russian special services.

Kyrgyzstan: Opposition and President Spar before National Conclave
BY ULAN TEMIROV
In an attempt to generate momentum for his administration's policies, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev is convening a traditional conclave of elders and officials in Kyrgyzstan.

Georgia: Fake TV Report about Russian Invasion Makes Truth Stranger than Fiction
BY MOLLY CORSO
A media controversy in Georgia involving a fake report about a Russian invasion is threatening to turn into a political incident. Western diplomats have assailed the broadcast as "irresponsible," while the Russian Foreign Ministry has branded it "immoral." The Georgian government, meanwhile, is saying it cannot take responsibility for programming aired by a privately owned media outlet.

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Afghanistan: Amnesty Law Fuels Debate on Reconciliation Process
BY AUNOHITA MOJUMDAR
Sakina is angry. "Who is Karzai to forgive the deaths in my family?" she fumes. "Was his home looted? Was his son killed? What gives him the right to forgive on my behalf? He has no right." The source of Sakina's ire is Afghan President Hamid Karzai's reconciliation initiative.

Georgia: TV Report of Russian Invasion is a Show-Stopper at Tbilisi Theater
BY GIORGI LOMSADZE
The actors performing Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at Tbilisi's Rustaveli Theatre on March 13 at first tried to ignore the whispers in the audience that began just as the curtain went up. But 10 minutes into the performance, spectator emotions about an Imedi TV report that Russia had invaded Georgia and toppled President Mikheil Saakashvili overtook the drama on stage.

Central Asia: State Department Report Takes Tashkent to Task
BY JOSHUA KUCERA
The US State Department noted some modest improvements in human rights conditions in Central Asia in its annual Human Rights Report, although, overall, the region remained one of the worst in the world in terms of respecting basic freedoms.

Turkey: Is Foreign Minister's Hometown a Harbinger of Economic Change?
BY NICHOLAS BIRCH
An unprecedented thing happened last year in Konya, the capital of the province where Turkey's mould-breaking foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu was born in 1959. For the first time in its recent history, this agricultural center-turned-industrial boom town exported more goods to the Middle East than to Europe.

Kazakhstan: Astana Intensifying Efforts to Hold OSCE Summit
A EURASIANET INTERVIEW WITH ANTHONY PAHIGIAN
Kazakhstan is redoubling efforts to get two important holdouts - the United States and Uzbekistan - to endorse an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe summit in 2010. EurasiaNet recently sat down with Anthony Pahigian, deputy director of the US State Department’s Office of European Security and Political Affairs, to get Washington’s diplomatic take on the summit idea.

Azerbaijan: Living in Oil
A EURASIANET PHOTO STORY BY JONATHAN MAKIRI
Upon arrival at Baku's Heydar Aliyev international airport most foreign visitors make their way to the city center along the modern Heydar Aliyev highway, a thoroughfare lined with newly constructed walls and finely manicured parks. The center of Baku itself now features glitzy buildings and stunning apartments surrounding the UNESCO-listed site of Baku's walled old city.

Kazakhstan: Fallen Tycoons Still Rankle Ruling Elite
BY JOANNA LILLIS
Fresh salvoes are being fired in a running battle between members of Kazakhstan’s ruling elite and tycoons who have fallen out of favor.

Armenia: US Genocide Recognition Resolution Fosters Hopes for Peace with Turkey
BY GAYANE ABRAHAMYAN
A US congressional committee’s approval of a non-binding, draft resolution to recognize Ottoman Turkey’s 1915 slaughter of ethnic Armenians as genocide has sparked optimism among some Armenian analysts and pro-government politicians that the measure will push Turkey to reconcile with Armenia.