Soros Central Asia Web Site Expansion

In 1996, the Soros-funded Open Society Institute began to expand its mandate to cover Armenia, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. New foundation offices are opening in five of these countries (not Turkmenistan, yet). These offices will offer grants and provide scholarships. The new Project on Open Society in Central Eurasia will make available information and funds to support programs that deal with social, cultural, and legal issues, as well as other activities that support the development of civil societies in the region.

In order to make available information about developments in the region OSI has dramatically expanded their web site that covers these six countries. The URL is:

http://www.soros.org/central_eurasia.html

Information about each of the above-named countries is available at this site. The web site includes Latest News (updated every day), Media, Human Rights, Involvement of the United States, United Nations and other international bodies, Doing Business, Analytical Articles, Suggested Reading, and many links to other resources. Visitors are encouraged to build hotlinks to them from their own website or homepage.

Contact information for each of the new OSI offices is also available at the site for those wishing to make direct contact with them.

Finally, OSI offers a variety of publications on human rights and other developments in each country, available for free through their Publication Order Form. The latest such publication is Olivier Roy's �Islam in Tajikistan� commissioned and published by the Open Society Institute.

For more information or to order a subscription, see our publications page.

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