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01.12.2016 10:39 msk Human Rights Interview Politics Russia Uzbekistan
A plane Russian citizen Yekaterian Sajneva was in landed in Uzbekistan on November 27. Ms Sajneva is a journalist for the Moskovskiy Komsomolets newspaper, who has been in Uzbekistan several times. She now has friends in Tashkent and Bukhara; she fell in love with this country; and she visited Naman
29.11.2016 09:36 msk Human Rights Tajikistan
Late last week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan revoked the accreditations of six journalists of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) based in Dushanbe. The exterior ministry provided no comments on the decision. However, the journalists’ accreditation was revoked after RFE/RL’
25.11.2016 09:14 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
An appeal by friends and colleagues of a journalist who is forced into containment in a psychiatric clinic in Uzbekistan
14.11.2016 10:50 msk Human Rights Interview Uzbekistan
Until very recently, she had a male name and surname as well as men’s clothes. However, she confesses, she never felt comfortable in a men’s body. She wanted to wear dresses, use mascara and feel herself a real woman. She felt herself to be a woman since she was a child but did not know what to do a
09.11.2016 13:37 msk Human Rights Kazakhstan Politics
The fate of Ruslan Kulebayev, the best known “terrorist” in Kazakhstan at this time, will be known on November 2. Prosecutor Jarkyn Bakashbayev is asking to implement the capital punishment. Even though Kazakhstan does not apply the capital punishment due to an indefinite moratorium, charges of terr
25.10.2016 18:44 msk Central Asia Human Rights Politics
Over the past decade, more than 800 journalists have been killed in the line of duty, and only 8% of these cases have been resolved. These are the official figures of the Director-General of UNESCO, an organization of 195 Member States.
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
18.10.2016 09:41 msk Human Rights Kazakhstan Politics
Authorities and totalitarian countries often utilize physicians and medicines to suppress dissenting citizens and political opponents. Modern Kazakhstan is no exception. Those criticizing Astana risk being declared insane and ending up in psychiatric institutions.
10.10.2016 12:04 msk Analytics Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Tajikistan
Civic activism has been on the rise in Tajikistan in recent years. At first, groups of disgruntled women started breaking into opposition parties’ offices and western embassies , accusing the first of wanting to start a new war in the country, and the second of harbouring dissidents. Then the disgru
12.08.2016 19:31 msk Human Rights Interview Uzbekistan
“Welcome!”, reads a sign at the entrance to a university in Tashkent. “To what?” one may ask, “to a world of bribes, lies and hypocrisy?” The results of the August 1st nationwide entrance exams to all universities in Uzbekistan will be announced in the next few days. Despite the countless measures t
15.06.2016 15:31 msk Analytics Central Asia Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life Tajikistan Uzbekistan
Islamophobia as a tool for pre-election race
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
23.04.2016 11:56 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
“UN experts have called on Kyrgyzstan to immediately release jailed political activist and journalist Azimjan Askarov, after finding that he had been arbitrarily detained, held in inhumane conditions, tortured and mistreated, and prevented from adequately preparing his trial defence,” reads in part
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
30.11.2015 09:22 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
The only private kindergarten that provides an inclusive form of education in Kyrgyzstan , based in the capital Bishkek, is on the verge of being shut down. Both typical children and those with the Down syndrome attend the kindergarten. The authorities claim an unfortunate accident last month—a chil
24.11.2015 22:49 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
When Uzbekistan has finally released well-known politician Murad Jurayev, who spent 21 years behind bars, very few naively thought the move was an indication of the Islam Karimov regime’s weakening after a quarter-century state-sponsored elimination of its critics and opponents. Only several days la
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