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Now to signs of life today in Kyrgyzstans second largest city, Osh. After days of ethnic violence, thousands of Uzbeks have left the city, fleeing gangs of armed Kyrgyzs.

Calm Returns, Fear Remains, In Kyrgyzstan's South 2010

President Saparmyrat Niyazov has run this central Asian nation--the most corrupt of the "stans"--with an iron fist since he first took over the Turkmen Communist Party in the Soviet era.

The Most Corrupt Countries 2006

One of the "stans"--the Asian republics of the former Soviet Union--four of which are in the top 30 most-corrupt nations.

The Most Corrupt Countries 2006

Russia has been shorn of all the nations - the Baltic states, Ukraine, the "stans" - that made it an empire.

The St. Petersburg Times 2010

US control there - and in the Central Asian "stans" - would mean containing Russia and Iran, the dream for American strategists since WWII.

Dissident Voice Eric Walberg 2010

Central Asia, where I traveled as a journalist for Time in the eighties and as a diplomat in the nineties, is made up of various stans, a Persian word that connotes a homeland for a people: Tajikistan for Tajiks, Kazakhstan for the Kazakhs, Turkmenistan for the Turkmens, Uzbekistan for the Uzbeks.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

Uzbekistan is only one of the so-called stans or post-Soviet states in Central Asia.

CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2001 2001

Bilateral trade between China and Afghanistan is currently just a fraction of trade with other "stans" -- the turnover of $114.9 million in the year through July was 2 percent of Sino-Pakistan trade.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

Bilateral trade between China and Afghanistan is currently just a fraction of trade with other "stans" -- the turnover of $114.9 million in the year through July was 2 percent of Sino-Pakistan trade.

Reuters: Top News 2011

Bilateral trade between China and Afghanistan is currently just a fraction of trade with other "stans" -- the turnover of $114.9 million 75 million pounds in the year through July was 2 percent of Sino-Pakistan trade.

Reuters: Top News 2011

Hyperfans known as ‘stans’, whose lives revolve around their favourite celebrities, have roiled social media, the music industry and even US politics.

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