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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
12.11.2014 17:57 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia China Interview Iran Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Politics Religious life Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Several weeks ago ISIS (also known as ISIL and Islamic State) forces reached Turkey’s borders, destroying all ‘infidels’ in their path, by which they mean both Christians and Muslims belonging to other branches of Islam. Support for ISIS has also extended beyond its region: Afghan and Pakistani memb
23.09.2014 12:12 msk Human Rights Interview Politics Uzbekistan
Many Russian and European mass media circulated images depicting Gulnara Karimova rudely held by hands by people in fatigues. Ms. Karimova’s “official representative,” Locksley Ryan of Davidson Ryan Dore , provided the images in question.
25.06.2014 20:22 msk Analytics Business Interview Uzbekistan
Interview with Shermamat Abdullozoda, who held senior positions in the Ministry of Finance and the Treasury of the Republic Of Uzbekistan.
09.06.2014 12:12 msk Analytics Business Interview Politics Uzbekistan
The Birdamlik political opposition movement hosted a convention in St. Louis, USA, late April, and stirred a fair amount interest in the movement. We have written many articles on the founder of the movement, Mr. Bakhodir Choriyev, and his ideas for a nonviolent regime change in Uzbekistan; we have
07.02.2014 17:15 msk Human Rights Interview Uzbekistan
Photo: A scene from the play White, White Black Stork at Tashkent’s Ilkhom theater.
06.02.2014 23:13 msk Human Rights Interview Politics Uzbekistan
The president of Uzbekistan will pay a two-day visit to Prague on 21 Feb 2014. Human rights activists in Europe are preparing to greet Islam Karimov with protest rallies: Mutabar Tajibayeva, the head of the Fiery Hearts Club, promises that they will firmly demand Karimov free all political prisoners
29.08.2013 08:45 msk Analytics Business Human Rights Interview Migration Politics Uzbekistan
Photo: Nadejda Atayeva at a hearing on forced labour at the European Parliament, November 2011
22.07.2013 00:56 msk Analytics Interview Politics Uzbekistan
Nigara Khidoyatova, Uzbek democratic opposition leader
02.07.2013 23:35 msk Human Rights Interview Kyrgyzstan Politics
On 27 Jun 2013, the parliament of Kyrgyzstan adopted a decision to relieve Tursunbek Akun from the post of ombudsman. A special commission identified violations of the ombudsman’s oath as the main human rights advocate. Nurbek Toktakunov, a well-known lawyer with significant experience, is among tho
24.06.2013 23:35 msk Analytics Business Interview Migration Politics Russia Uzbekistan
President Islam Karimov pictured rapping “those lazy migrants” during an interview with the Uzbekistan TV Channel
31.05.2013 00:26 msk Central Asia Human Rights Interview Migration Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
The US-based independent expert on Eurasia and Russian translator Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick answered Fergana editor-in-chief's questions. The interview was on the recent arrest of another former Uzbek citizen in the United States, Fazliddin Kurbanov. The expert is certain that there were most seriou
08.03.2013 21:03 msk Human Rights Interview Politics Uzbekistan
A guard in tracksuit and the entire diplomatic corpus of the Uzbek mission to the UN protect Gulnara Karimova’s estate in Geneva
03.12.2012 21:17 msk Interview Kazakhstan
A group of guests from Europe visited Kazakhstan from 26 October to 4 November. Journalist and human rights defender from Helsinki Oksana Chelysheva, Finnish photographer Kukka Ranta and Latvian photographer Maris Morkans went to the Central Asian republic to find about the situation there ioday, al
25.09.2012 10:51 msk Interview Uzbekistan
In recent months and years the political and economic cooperation between the USA and Uzbekistan has been developing actively. This arouses lively interest and even some worry in other countries’ governments, and is a subject of discussion in the press and a reason for rumours amongst experts. Ferga
30.12.2011 22:01 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyzstani state should be understood primarily as a market for investing in public offices, claims a Swedish political scientist in a newly published doctoral thesis. Dr. Johan Engvall says ordinary political theory does not even provide us with the tools to understand the Central Asian republ
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