CENTRAL ASIA TURNING AGAINST RUSSIA.

“Traditionally pro-Russian Central Asia is showing the first signs of dissatisfaction with Russian policy there,” Sanobar Shermatova notes in Moskovoskie novosti, no. 26 (April 16-23). This shift in official and private opinion flows from Russian involvement in Tajikistan and has prompted Turkmenistan to seek to expel more Russian soldiers and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to seek to unite their economies.

Nazarbayev Wins Extension.