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$A rooster speaking \$

A rooster speaking \

15.03.2006 17:50 msk Ferghana Valley

Have you ever heard roosters? Sure you have. Who hasn't? A certain rooster in the Kyrgyz town of Osh, however, is something else. Its crow has already saved it from death. Owner Ibragim Ismatullayev, his neighbors from Tadjikskaya Street in the center of Osh, and local journalists maintain that the

Andijan: fed up with never ending problems, the population is protesting again

13.03.2006 18:59 msk Ferghana Valley

Tenants of the multistory apartment buildings in the Severny block of Andijan organized a protest action on March 9. Numbering over 100, the protesters included women and young men.

Qorasuv rebels leader Bakhtijar Rakhimov is facing trial

25.01.2006 10:33 msk Ferghana Valley

Sources say that the trial of Bakhtijar Rakhimov, organizer of the events in the Uzbek town of Qorasuv (former Ilyichevsk) last May, began in one of the courts of the Tashkent region, yesterday. Fifty-eight witnesses (mostly young men) were summoned from Qorasuv.

Protest action in the mutinous city

24.01.2006 22:17 msk Ferghana Valley

Almost one hundred women, residents of Andizhan (Uzbekistan) organized a protest action yesterday. Cradling their kids, some of them blocked the city highways protesting against absence of gas and electric powers in their homes. The police did not interfere.

Population of the Andizhan region of Uzbekistan staged a protest action

24.01.2006 00:04 msk Ferghana Valley

A demonstration took place in the Ok-Jer mahallja [district] of Andizhan, its residents protesting against regular gas and electric power outages. About 30 young girls and women cradling infants and toddlers blocked the highway. They said they had been forced to stage the protest action by absence o

Lists of Andizhan victims have never been published officially

13.01.2006 10:56 msk Ferghana Valley

Lists of the victims of the notorious events in Andizhan are being compiled and published. Moscow-based Human Rights Center Memorial published the list of 183 names. Far from being complete, of course, it nevertheless provides a foundation for continuation. The list in question was compiled on the b

Frightened by bigotry, Uzbek population of the southern Kyrgyzstan appeals to the president of the country

11.01.2006 11:08 msk Ferghana Valley

The 7th Kurultai [Conference] of the Uzbek Center of National Culture of the Dzhalalabad region (Kyrgyzstan) took place on the eve of the Ijd-i Kurban. The kurultai adopted an appeal to President Kurmanbek Bakiyev expressing its worries over nationalism.

Ferghana Valley enclaves become zones of risk

28.09.2005 16:29 msk Ferghana Valley

When Central Asia was divided into sovereign states, the process generated numerous enclaves - territories that belong to one republic but are located in another. There are Uzbek enclaves Sokh and Shakhimardan in Kyrgyzstan. There is a foreign enclave in Uzbekistan too. Tajik enclave Sarvak is locat

Andijan: a city under arrest

14.07.2005 20:30 msk Ferghana Valley

Andijan does not look like a place which witnessed a massacre two months ago. The city is calm, with people going about their daily business. However, after spending a few hours there, one begins to realize that this is just an illusion. There is a large police and security presence — with many agen

Time of trouble around Sokh, an enclave on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border

11.05.2005 16:51 msk Ferghana Valley

Sokh is a small Uzbek enclave on the territory of Kyrgyzstan. Residents of a common state once, the locals are at odds with each other nowadays. Patrols of the police and border guards were dispatched to the area several days ago. Additional security measures are ascribed to the clashes among inhabi

International organizations take measures to prevent radioactive contamination of the Ferghana Valley

26.04.2005 15:15 msk Ferghana Valley

A major land slide was reported on April 13 in Kyrgyzstan, not far from the borders of the Namangan region (Uzbekistan) in the vicinity of the town of Mailu-Suu where radioactive wastes storage facilities are located. International mission ECOSAN was urgently formed to study the situation. Its funct

Enclave Shakhimardan: big problems of a small township

08.02.2005 15:50 msk Ferghana Valley

Deputies of the parliament of Kyrgyzstan advised the government to claim enclave Shakhimardan from Uzbekistan, last autumn.

Explosion in Osh during the arrest of extremists

22.11.2004 16:28 msk Ferghana Valley

Special forces of the Interior Ministry of Kyrgyzstan mounted Law and Order Operation in Osh, the second largest city of the republic, on November 21. Four young men failed to produce identification, were detained, and driven to the municipal Internal Affairs Directorate. When the police UAZ pulled

Everybody is picking cotton in the Namangan region of Uzbekistan

18.10.2004 16:57 msk Ferghana Valley

Concentrating on what was happening in the Andizhan and Ferghana regions of Uzbekistan, we somehow neglected the Namangan region. Meanwhile, this region is facing its own score of problems too, and they may even outnumber the problems of other regions. Ferghana.Ru decided to correct the slip. Here i

The son of the Ferghana regional prosecutor decapitated secretary of the Andizhan governor

01.10.2004 15:41 msk Ferghana Valley

Headlines like that are usually found in cheap tabloids specializing in scandals or banners in Internet making an emphasis on garish sensations that turn up to be canards. All the same, the rumors on the horrible murder circulate in the Andizhan region, getting grislier and grislier with the passage

Namangan governor (Ferghana region) sacked for inadequacy

20.09.2004 17:22 msk Ferghana Valley

Emergency meeting of the Namangan regional kengash (committee) of people's deputies took place on September 17, 2004. President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov addressed the meeting.

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