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06.09.2017 23:21 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan
On 5 September, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrived in Bishkek to sign the agreement on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. Many experts, including the leadership of both republics, are considering the first visit of the Uzbek president to Kyrgyzstan in 17 years as a sign of warming of bilateral relatio
01.06.2017 12:31 msk Analytics Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life
For the past seven years, the number of convicts for extremism and terrorism in Kyrgyzstan has tripled. In 2009, according to the State Penitentiary Service (SSC), 51 people were convicted for such crimes, whereas today 185 people including 7 women are serving their sentences. Among this category of
15.05.2017 16:58 msk Analytics Ferghana Valley Human Rights Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
Activists of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan (PAU) held a traditional action in the centre of Tashkent at the foot of the ‘Courage’ monument on 13 May to commemorate the hundreds of peaceful Andijan residents, who died during the shooting of the rally 12 years ago. To the surprise of the par
09.05.2017 23:01 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
On 10 May 2017, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein arrives in Uzbekistan with a two-day visit after a long break. We offered several well-known human rights defenders and experts on the region to comment on this important event and suggest concerns that a high UN
28.04.2017 15:58 msk Analytics Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Migration Politics Religious life Russia Uzbekistan
Brothers and neighbours speak about Rakhmat Akilov in Uzbekistan and Abror and Akram Azimov brothers in Kyrgyzstan . A good childhood and obedience, law-abiding behaviour, positive reputation in the neighbourhood, diligence – such testimonials would make a decent citizen, but not terrorist.
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
25.07.2016 12:30 msk Analytics Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan Politics
I am a citizen of the United Kingdom who is currently living in Bishkek. I was asked to contribute an article on life in Kyrgyzstan to Fergana.ru from the perspective of an expat, explaining for example, what I found surprising, interesting, unusual, what I liked or did not like about life in Kyrgyz
06.06.2015 01:02 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
Taking photographs during the latest anti-terror exercises in Osh was prohibited. This image was made during a “clearing” police carried out in Osh mahallas in June 2010.
18.05.2015 09:40 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Religious life
Over the last two weeks, the city of Osh in the south of Kyrgyzstan has been plagued by rumours about an imminent “revolution” or an “interethnic conflict.” Nobody knows who is disseminating them and what goals the initiators of this fear campaign are pursuing.
13.05.2015 23:03 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Wednesday 13 May marks ten years since the massacre in Andizhan. Uzbek authorities claim that this is “a closed topic”. Totalitarian regimes decide a lot, but not this. The case is not closed until the victims’ families say so.
13.05.2015 20:50 msk Analytics Ferghana Valley Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
May 13 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the bloodiest events in the history of modern Uzbekistan. On that day in 2005, thousands of Uzbek citizens took to Babur Square in the city of Andijan in protest. The demonstration was a reaction to the three-month trial of 23 entrepreneurs from the Andija
13.02.2015 14:31 msk Analytics Central Asia Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Religious life Uzbekistan
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11.12.2014 13:55 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Interview Kyrgyzstan Politics
Eamon Gilmore , the former deputy prime minister and the former minister for foreign affairs of Ireland, visited Аzimjan Askarov, a human rights activists imprisoned for life, at the proposal of Front Line Defenders on the eve of the International Human Rights Day. Mr. Askarov has told about his cas
26.10.2013 13:06 msk Central Asia Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan
Alisher Saipov, a well-known journalist, was killed with three gunshots on this day six years ago. He would have turned 32 this September.
19.08.2013 13:02 msk Business Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan
Ismail is a cook at Kumush Café, who prepares hamburgers. In his free time, he writes songs hitting top of charts at a local radio station.
13.08.2013 23:11 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan
In April 2013, we wrote that ethnic Uzbek natives of Osh were forcibly moved from their homes to a suburban settlement of On Adyr (The Ten Hills). The houses that were preventing roads from expansion were destroyed and their owners were resettled. Fergana’s own correspondent Yekaterina Ivashchenko t
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