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Azizbek Karimov, 25, was convicted of terrorism and attempting to harm constitutional order by organising an explosion at a bank in the Kyrgyz town of Osh last May, a court spokesman said by telephone from the Uzbek capital Tashkent.Uzbek court sentences Muslim extremist to death - AlertNet Feb 16 2004 7:36PM GMT

Kazakhstan must meet all its OSCE commitments - Responding to the semi-annual report by Anton Rupnik, head of the OSCE Center in Almaty, Deputy Chief of the U.S. delegation to the OSCE Douglas Davidson said the United States approves of Kazakhstan's desire to serve as the OSCE's annual chairman in 2009, but the country must meet all its OSCE commitments, gazeta.kz reported on 4 February.

On the piste in Kazakhstan - BBC Feb 14 2004 3:11PM GMT

Central Asia: Report Calls On U.S. To Rethink Its Regional Approach - Center for Defense Information Feb 13 2004 1:08AM GMT

Kazakhstan accuses ChevronTexaco-led group of breaking law - Interfax Information Agency Feb 11 2004 9:31AM GMT

Take This Cron Job And Shove It - Earlier this week, I began migrating all of the sites hosted by Synfibers that were using the PHP-based CMS called Drupal from version 4.2 (and one site that was hosted on a modified 4.0 installation) to the latest and greatest edition, 4.3.2.

Vonage CEO: VOIP will grow, if no regulation - WASHINGTON - Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) services are poised to take off in the U.S., if regulators can keep their hands off this alternative to traditional telephone service, the chief executive of a major VOIP provider said Friday.

Given that the two current GSM operators have significant disputes with the Ministry, and have not yet received all the frequency ranges that were in the original GSM-900 tender, I tend to doubt any other parties are going to be interested in this tender unless they have a strong masochistic streak. Kazakhstan announces tender for GSM-1800 frequencies - RBC Feb 6 2004 10:26AM GMT

They're going to have to give up shenanigans like proposing a percentage limit on foreign investment in key sectors like telecommunications before this is going to happen in 2006 or any other year.Kazakhstan hopes to join WTO by mid-2006 - PM - Interfax Information Agency Feb 6 2004 9:55AM GMT

MyDoom reignites the rift between lusers and the tech-savvy - Technophiles are showing more anger towards those they believe are not making efforts to learn more about technology.