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Analysis: Gazprom moves in on Kyrgyzstan

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- As Western governments become increasingly concerned about Gazprom's growing role in Europe, where the Russian state monopoly now provides about 25 percent of the European Union's gas imports, Gazprom is extending its influence farther east, into former Soviet Central Asian republics. Kyrgyzstan, faced with a looming energy crisis this winter, is now considering a Gazprom offer to construct a natural gas reservoir and engage in exploring the country's massive but largely untapped resources.

Analysis: Central Asian electricity

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- In Central Asia the United States has quietly and adroitly developed a program that will earn America more profound gratitude from locals than any number of bilateral military operations and lectures on human rights.The USAID is reporting that, as part of a USAID project, representatives of Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik and Uzbek energy concerns met July 30 in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, to discuss a regional model for electrical power transmission.

Analysis: Tajikistan and winter

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- While mountains and brutal winter weather seem to go together, the frigid cold front that has settled over Central Asia is causing unparalleled misery in two of the region's poorest nations, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

Analysis: C. Asia’s last oil, gas frontier

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- While Western attention in the search for hydrocarbons in the Commonwealth of Independent States has until now focused largely on the Caspian Sea, the race is heating up to exploit Central Asia's last significant body of water, the Aral Sea.

Analysis: Tajik hydroelectric potential

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Since 1991, the world has been in a mad dash for the energy resources of the Caspian, leaving out the resource-poor mountainous eastern nation Tajikistan. Sixteen years after the collapse of communism, the former Soviet republic may have the last laugh, as it sits atop immense water resources, which if properly utilized, will allow it to generate surplus energy for export and negotiate lucrative water contracts with their parched downstream neighbors.

Afghanistan plans protected wildlife areas

KABUL, Afghanistan, June 28 (UPI) -- The government of Afghanistan and the Wildlife Conservation Society have started a project to protect that nation's unique wildlife.

Central Asia faces radiation threat

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Central Asia could be facing a major radioactive contamination risk, the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Eurasian Economic Community is warning.

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