Resources on Central Asia (Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)

Government and official information:

CIA World Factbook (country guides)
LawNetCenter
UNEP/GRID-Arendal, United Nations Environmental Programme contains specific reports on countries in Central Asia, as well as regional reports

Economics and statistics:

Official Statistics of the countries of the CIS www.cisstat.com/eng

Academic sites:

Center for Russian and East European studies contains several different resources related to C. Asian studies
Center for the Middle East and North African Studies has a section of their website, Outreach, deveoted to country-specific resources in Central Asia
Central Eurasian Studies World Wide Contains country-specific references to Central Asian sites, and is particularly known for its Central Asia Experts Directory and Dissertations in Central Asian Studies, organized by topic.
Inner Asian and Uralic Resource Center at Indiana University This page contains convenient starting points for exploring web sites related to Central Asia. Each site contains lists of country-specific resources.
Institute for Asian and African Studies at the University of Helsinki
University of Central Asia This is how it describes itself: “The University of Central Asia was founded by the presidents of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan, and the Aga Khan, to foster economic and social development throughout the vast and impoverished mountain zones of Central Asia. It is the world’s first internationally chartered institution of higher education.”
University of Texas at Austin Resources on Central Asia
Documents relating to Central Asia Includes communiques with the US Department of State

Scholarship on Central Asia

Ab Imperio International humanities and social sciences journal

History

The History of Central Asia The histories are country-specific

Libraries and archives:

Library of Congress Near East Collections
Asian Studies WWW Virtual library produced by Australian National Univeristy, containing many different resources, including live news feeds, and website reviews.
Carrie: a full-text electronic library  This is a full text database of Central Asian literature  

News and media:

Asiatimes Online They define themselves as producers of “a “quality Internet-only publication that reports and examines geopolitical, political, economic and business issues. We look at these issues from an Asian perspective.
The Courier of Central Asia In French. Covers regional and Country specific news.
News Central Asia This merits a description by its owners. “NCA is a tiny news agency. We are still very small but already we are under the name of one of our affiliated in Pakistan. However, NCA itself is incorporated as a media company in Delaware. … We are flattered by those who have been trying to trace our origin and mistakenly consider us a Pakistani news agency.”
Institute for War and Peace reporting Focuses on human rights issues
ABYZ News Links

Other resources:

Asian American Net This website tries to cover many different aspects of Central Asia, including a concise history, facts and figures, art, a list of excellent web sources, and much more)
Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst Sponsored by Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., containing news analysis and policy papers.
Central Asia Institute Central Asia Institute promotes literacy, women’s vocational skills, and awareness of public health and environmental issues through community initiated education programs in mountain regions of Central Asia in remote mountain communities.
Central Asian pages Links to various Central Asian websites.
Central Asian Voices
DNA analysis traces Silk Road forbears http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1502189.stm
EurasiaNet Operated by the Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute
European Union relations with Eastern Europe and Central Asia 
MERIA The Middle East Review of International Affairs
National Geographic
Portal to Asian Internet Resources
SOTA Research Centre Turkic World pages
Takla Makan Mummies Mummies of people with European features and wearing clothes woven into plaids found in the Gobi Desert
Uzbekistan/Tadjikistan - Classical and Traditional Music
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs country specific news
UNESCO Webworld Provides country studies
WebWorld The Arab World Institute

Resources in MIRLYN:

WorldCat
Proquest Historical Newspapers, Proquest Digital Dissertations, and Proquest Newsstand
Russian Academy of Science Database
American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
World News Connection
Universal Database of Russian  Newspapers
Russian National Bibliography
All-Russian Census (on disk)
1897 Russian census (on disk)