Reports say the Tsarnaevs lived for years in Kyrgyzstan - in Central Asia - and Dagestan, another Russian republic in the North Caucasus which borders Chechnya.
What this Administration most fears in that area of south-central Asia is the collapse of the state in Pakistan and the inability to produce governability in Afghanistan.
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The government of Uzbekistan in particular is likely to "drive a fairly hard bargain" in negotiations with the U.S. over moving military cargo over its territory, said Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
Under the framework deal with China, Turkmenistan planned to export 5 bcm to China in 2010 using the first trunk of the Central Asia-China pipeline, and to then increase these exports to 40 bcm per year by 2012, when the second trunk line of the pipeline is to be completed.
The Kazakh opposition, like the opposition in Kirgizstan, is convinced that the high-handed behaviour of the rulers of Central Asia is a side-effect of the region's growing geopolitical importance.
Turkmenistan, a gas-rich dictatorship in Central Asia, has just signed a big gas-export deal with Russia, after talks with neighbouring Iran bogged down.
The new universities in oil-rich Central Asia, for example, are being promoted by American energy companies.
Already, the Americans are using Bulgarian airbases for lifting men and materiel to Afghanistan and ex-Soviet Central Asia.
Similar subregional initiatives are proliferating in South, Central and South-East Asia.
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But Attorney General Steve Bullock said his office's investigation did find "serious internal problems in the management" of the Bozeman, Montana-based Central Asia Institute that Mortenson helped create.
In recent years, the Neanderthals - who lived across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia in Pleistocene times - have come to be rehabilitated amid mounting evidence that their abilities had been underestimated.
Once again, the seven FEI zones of the world come into play: North-West Europe, South-West Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, North America, Central and South America, Africa and the Middle East, and South-East Asia and Oceania.
Should China seek conquest in oil-rich Siberia or central Asia, the consequence could be nothing worse than a largish version of the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
Euro-zone exports to Asia, central and eastern Europe and oil-exporting countries have been growing apace.
The intelligence assessment found Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central and Southeast Asia are most vulnerable to warming-related drought, flooding, extreme weather and hunger, Fingar said.
For Li and Nazarbayev's handshake last week sealed what promises to be China's most important economic and strategic demarche into Central Asia for decades -- if not ever.
"Since its inception in 2006, Google has added 65 languages from areas extending across much of the world, though two exceptions stand out: Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, " she writes.
No exact details of Howell's bank accounts and properties in the United States, Central America and south-east Asia were revealed at Friday's hearing or separately, at the pre-sentencing hearing involving his ex-lover Hazel Stewart.
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It led to decisions to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Germany and South Korea and negotiate basing rights in more places world-wide (Central Asia, for example), closer to where they might be needed.
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Over the past decade, China's trade has boomed with Afghanistan's resource-rich neighbors in Central Asia.
Uzbekistan, an autocratically run and independent-minded country in Central Asia, is facing a mysterious Islamic insurgency.
Semey, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, 6 April, on the last leg of a week-long tour of Central Asia.
Nukus, Uzbekistan, on Sunday morning, 4 April, on the third stop of his week-long visit to Central Asia.
There is not a central idea that works across pan-Asia, and that is not true for the American market.
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Migrants from the republics of the north Caucasus and the post-Soviet countries of Central Asia have also spread more conservative interpretations of Islam.
The company has operations in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Asian-Pacific region and North America, but China projects account for 83% of revenue.
Its export volume has already surpassed those of Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia, and it is expected to maintain this rank throughout the forecast period.
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It has become even more crucial as a potential transit route for Europe-bound natural gas from energy-rich Azerbaijan and Central Asia, as well as from Iraq (and eventually Iran).
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