If talks had traditionally become stuck on fixations with different Soviet-era maps -- Tajikistan ... the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and the territory of modern-day Kyrgyzstan had a similar ...

Kyrgyzstan also hosts two Tajik exclaves, Vorukh and Kayragach. Both sides have disputed ownership over various territories since independence in 1991 using different Soviet maps and agreements as ...

the internal administrative lines drawn on Soviet maps took on genuine significance. They were not just borders between two new countries. For the area along what is now the Kyrgyz-Tajik frontier ...

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan ... border China, while Tajikistan also has a long frontier with Afghanistan. Long stretches of the border separating the two ex-Soviet states are contested.

Central Asian neighbours Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on Wednesday (December ... the two sides did not have access to original Soviet-era maps that could throw clarity on where the disputed border ...

Kyrgyzstan reported “intense battles” with Central Asian neighbor Tajikistan on Friday and said 24 people had been killed in the latest outbreak of violence to hit the former Soviet Union.

The security chiefs of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sat down for talks Saturday ... service announced the new round of talks as the two ex-Soviet nations traded blame for shelling that resumed ...

and the subsequent formation of the Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic have great significance for the future history of Kyrgyzstan, and they became ...

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan reported no major combat incidents ... accusations of sporadic shelling by both sides. The two former Soviet republics clashed over a border dispute this week, accusing ...

Recent years have seen an improvement in relations between the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. One by one ...