TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan has closed down another Western-funded aid agency, ordering the complete liquidation of the Central Asian Free Exchange (CAFE) and ouster of its foreign staff. A final appellate-court judgment against CAFE was handed down by Tashkent courts July 11, less than four months after a rash of local court cases were launched against branch CAFE offices in…
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