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       <title>CALL FOR ACTION</title>
       <link>http://ifn.org.uk/article.php?sid=17</link>
       <description><![CDATA[<i>Political Prisoner in Kazakhstan Faces Pressure Ahead of Due Conditional Release</i>]]></description>    </item>

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       <title>Re: Deportation of Uzbek Rights Campaigner</title>
       <link>http://ifn.org.uk/article.php?sid=16</link>
       <description><![CDATA[<i>The IFN calls on Kazakhstan to ensure that Lutfullo Shamsuddinov, recognized by the UN as refugee, is not returned to Uzbekistan</i>]]></description>    </item>

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       <title>Clear Breach of Freedom of Expression</title>
       <link>http://ifn.org.uk/article.php?sid=15</link>
       <description><![CDATA[The World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forum call on the President of Kazakhstan to ensure that <i>Respublika </i>is permitted to publish]]></description>    </item>

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       <title>Information Ministry orders closure of opposition weekly</title>
       <link>http://ifn.org.uk/article.php?sid=14</link>
       <description><![CDATA[New York, May 10, 2005 – CPJ condemns the closure of the leading opposition weekly <i>Respublika Delovoye Obozreniye</i> (Republic Business Review) by The Kazakh Culture, Information, and Sports Ministry.]]></description>    </item>

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       <title>Kazakhstan Alert - Closure of 'Respublika'</title>
       <link>http://ifn.org.uk/article.php?sid=13</link>
       <description><![CDATA[The International Press Institute urges President Nazarbayev to respect the key role played by a free and independent press in democratic progress</i>]]></description>    </item>

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       <title>Appeal to president after closure of major opposition newspaper</title>
       <link>http://ifn.org.uk/article.php?sid=12</link>
       <description><![CDATA[Reporters Without Borders has protested in a letter to the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev against the Kazakh authorities' decision to close opposition weekly Respublika and its sister papers Respublika Delovoe Obozrenie and Respublika Analitichesky Ezhenedelnik.]]></description>    </item>

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       <title>Exiled Kazakh Opposition Editor Detained in Russia</title>
       <link>http://ifn.org.uk/article.php?sid=11</link>
       <description><![CDATA[The chief editor of Kazakhstan’s main opposition newspaper <i>Respublika</i>, Irina Petrushova, has been detained in Russia on Saturday, April 23, 2005 at the request of the Kazakh financial police.]]></description>    </item>

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       <title>Central Asia: What Chance for Democracy?</title>
       <link>http://ifn.org.uk/article.php?sid=9</link>
       <description><![CDATA[Nearly 13 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, prospects for democratic reform in Central Asia are disappearing, warned opposition leaders from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan at a recent conference in London.]]></description>    </item>

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       <title>Better Late Than Never</title>
       <link>http://ifn.org.uk/article.php?sid=10</link>
       <description><![CDATA[Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the unfolding situation in Ukraine is part of a new wave of democratic fervor sweeping across the former Soviet Union. We should ensure this vibrant movement for democratic change in the region is given a voice.]]></description>    </item>

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       <title>Re: Feliks Kulov</title>
       <link>http://ifn.org.uk/article.php?sid=8</link>
       <description><![CDATA[President Askar Akaev
Republic of Kyrgyzstan
VIA FAX: +996 312 218 627]]></description>    </item>

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