Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan, has promoted his brother, Janybek Bakiyev, to become the next head of the State Protection Service. Unassuming at first sight, the post of chief of the presidential bodyguard is one of the central positions in

A candy manufacturing factory in Tashkent is being demolished as part of an urban renewal project, in spite of previous assurances that the building would be left intact