The White House says it is troubled by reports that dozens of people detained during demonstrations in Moscow and other Russian cities have been mistreated, including accusations that some were beaten by police.

• February 1, 2011

Ministry of Economic Regulation (MER) of Kyrgyzstan intends to attract Turkish businessmen to develop the mining sector, as the head of the investment policy of MER Kubat Murzaev stated at a joint Kyrgyz-Turkish Business Forum.

• February 1, 2011

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a two-day official visit to Kyrgyzstan on February 1

• January 31, 2011

Kazakhstan's constitutional council on Monday rejected a referendum to extend President Nursultan Nazarbayev's rule until 2020, meaning the leader of Central Asia's largest economy is likely to stand for election in 2012.

• January 31, 2011

Pakistan's nuclear arsenal now totals more than 100 deployed weapons, a doubling of its stockpile over the past several years in one of the world's most unstable regions, according to estimates by nongovernment analysts

• January 31, 2011

Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the first of its kind in the country, is to join the national power grid in early April, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi said

• January 29, 2011

Russian experts confirmed during a presentation of the Kaliningrad nuclear power plant project in Riga yesterday that the project will have no detrimental effect on the environment.

• January 29, 2011

Turkey has played an increasingly visible role in Arab affairs in recent years, but the country's top diplomat in the United States suggested Friday that the violence in Egypt is an internal matter.

• January 29, 2011