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16.02.2017 22:32 msk Business Human Rights Uzbekistan
Things are going from bad to worse for Uzbekistan’s anticorruption whistleblower with a court ordering his confinement to a pretrial detention facility pending criminal hearings into corruption.
13.02.2017 00:02 msk Business Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Early February 2017, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree “On continued improvement of the institution of mahalla.”
18.01.2017 10:09 msk Analytics Business Central Asia Cotton Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
The Harvard International Review 's January 2017 edition includes an academic article on problems with water supply in Central Asia. The article author Alisher Ilkhamov is Alisher Ilkhamov is a Research Associate at the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus at the School of Oriental and
16.01.2017 13:20 msk Business Central Asia China Ferghana Valley Interview Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan
“Chinese and Uzbek archaeologists rewrite the history of an ancient city.” China’s Xinhua news agency carried a report under this title on January 11, 2017, which cites a forum on archaeology of the Academy of Public Sciences of China. According to the report, a group of archaeologists from China an
28.12.2016 04:27 msk Analytics Business Central Asia China Kyrgyzstan Politics
The Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) of Tajikistan , also known as Pamir—a namesake of mountains, occupies about 40 per cent of Tajikistan’s territory, i.e. about 63,700 sq. km. The region borders on Kyrgyzstan in the north, China in the east and Afghanistan in the south. The Pamir mountain
19.10.2016 10:42 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is planning to decrease the amount of manual labour in agriculture, in cotton cultivation in particular, by 30 per cent. The issue was discussed in print materials distributed during the 12th International Cotton and Textile Fair recently held in Tashkent. Interestingly, three fairs ago i
25.05.2016 12:04 msk Business China Human Rights Kazakhstan Politics
Street protests, against plans to step up land privatisation, were broken up by police in many of Kazakhstan ’s largest cities on Saturday. The demonstrations were organised by informal on-line networks, rather than by any of the recognised opposition groups. Here are key points from a report by AND
27.04.2016 02:27 msk Analytics Business Interview Politics Uzbekistan
A public discussion to address the issue of where the Uzbek funds frozen in Swiss banks could be directed, took place in Washington, DC, on April 20.
09.12.2015 19:06 msk Analytics Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
In late November, the International Labour Organization (ILO) in collaboration with the World Bank published the monitoring results of the use of child and forced labour during the cotton harvest in 2015 in Uzbekistan . The experts of the ILO, as the report says, «could not find conclusive evidence
22.10.2015 13:31 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Uzbekistan
According to many employees of state-funded institutions, who have been forcefully sent to cotton fields in Uzbekistan , they manually collected the entire harvest of cotton this year. They report seeing not even one cotton-picking machine throughout the whole period of their work on the fields. Mea
15.10.2015 10:51 msk Analytics Business Politics Uzbekistan
Another important “threshold” has been passed in the Uzbek currency market: the US dollar now trades at over 5,000 soums. Illegal currency converters on the market are purchasing the US dollar at 4,950 soums and selling at 5,030. Thus, the value of the Uzbek national currency dropped 45.7% since the
06.10.2015 23:01 msk Business Kyrgyzstan Russia Uzbekistan
During its entire quarter-century independence period, Kyrgyzstan constantly had to hold challenging negotiations with Uzbekistan on the conditions of supply and delivery of natural gas by the latter. This gas cabbala may soon come to its end: Gazprom’s engineers are completing the blueprints of the
29.09.2015 01:32 msk Analytics Business Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
According to information Fergana obtained from several sources, thousands of residents of the city of Angren in Tashkent Region of Uzbekistan are engaged in this year’s cotton-picking campaign. The area is of particular interest because its one of the sites the World Bank has financed a project. One
23.09.2015 13:39 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
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18.09.2015 00:59 msk Afghanistan Analytics Business Central Asia China Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
We discussed Russia’s “southward turn”, a much-discussed topic lately, with Vladimir Milov, a well-known Russian economist, politician and Demokraticheskiy Vybor Party Chairman. After all, the roads to “long monies” that are vital for any economy’s survival are closed in the Europe-bound directions.
16.09.2015 12:14 msk Business Human Rights Uzbekistan
The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights published “Silk Noose on Uzbek Farmers’ Neck,” which sheds light on 1) the use of forced labour in silk cocoon production in Uzbekistan and 2) centralised approach on the cocoon production and government monopoly, which impose production quotas on the farmers
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