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As US seeks closer ties with Turkmenistan, government cracks down on students

Date: October 28, 2009

Author: Robin Forestier-Walker

QUOTE: those efforts [of better relations between the US and Kyrgyzstan] are being complicated by a government campaign against students seeking to study at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA)... Some students have been barred from travelling abroad to the school and others have been subject to surveillance and harassment when they come home.

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Key People:

• Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

Key Organizations:

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• State Department/Department of State (DOS)
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Abuse of Power (Organizations)
  • Motivation/Rewards/Punishments
    • Threats / Intimidation / Extortion / Deterrence

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • Executive Branch (President/Prime Minister/King)
      • Dictatorship
    • Human Rights

• Eurasia / Central Asia
  • Turkmenistan

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