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Sex slavery: personal story in detail

Sex slavery: personal story in detail

01.12.2011 09:16 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan

It’s never been a secret that women from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan regularly work abroad as prostitutes. Yet, few people know of details of such “labor migration”. Fergana has taken an interview of a person, citizen of Bishkek, who has worked as a prostitute in Dubai (OAE).

Kadyrzhan Batyrov: Kyrgyz authorities failed to train people to work and pay bills

Kadyrzhan Batyrov: Kyrgyz authorities failed to train people to work and pay bills

02.02.2011 15:10 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan

Kadyrzhan Batyrov, one of the leaders of Uzbek community in Kyrgyzstan, the founder and president of private university in Jalal-Abad, former parliamentary deputy and state advisor of second rank, became the major person involved in June tragedy in southern Kyrgyzstan. Both national and independent

Alexander Knyazev: Kyrgyzstan is the first candidate to repeat the Kosovo scenario

Alexander Knyazev: Kyrgyzstan is the first candidate to repeat the Kosovo scenario

10.01.2011 15:07 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan

Professor Alexander Knyazev, the consultant of the Institute of political solutions (Almaty) became one of the first experts, raising the expected destabilization in Kyrgyzstan and its reasons. "Explosions and other terrorist acts will become the part of regular life in Kyrgyzstan" professor Knyazev

Alexander Knyazev: Terrorism will become the part of everyday life in Kyrgyzstan

Alexander Knyazev: Terrorism will become the part of everyday life in Kyrgyzstan

10.12.2010 11:57 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan

Alexander Knyazev, the coordinator of regional programs, senior fellow in the Institute of Oriental Studies under Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the consultant of the Institute of political decisions (Almaty), answered the questions of Fergana Chief Editor Daniil Kislov. The conversation cove

Vugar Khalilov: Investigators told me, "how can you be not guilty if the journalists keep saying that you are Bakievist?!

Vugar Khalilov: Investigators told me, "how can you be not guilty if the journalists keep saying that you are Bakievist?!

22.11.2010 09:54 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan

Vugar Khalilov, the Director-General of the “Flexi Communications” PR agency has complained to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)’s President Jeffrey Gedmin, asking him to provide evidence to back up the libelous allegations aired in a programme broadcast by the Kyrgyz service of Radio Liberty

Aziza Abdirasulova: They call pogroms as meetings, they call arson as meeting…

Aziza Abdirasulova: They call pogroms as meetings, they call arson as meeting…

14.11.2010 17:05 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan

In the last years of Kurmanbek Bakiev’s rule the organization of demonstrations in Kyrgyzstan was resisted in all possible ways. The legal acts on running peaceful demonstrations were totally made more severe. For instance, the organizers of demonstrations must have informed the authorities about th

Tolekan Ismailova: “The investigation of southern events is strategic issue”

Tolekan Ismailova: “The investigation of southern events is strategic issue”

18.09.2010 13:05 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan

The establishment of the international commission for investigation of events that took place in Kyrgyzstan since April, 2010 as well as authorization of such investigation are the today’s tasks for international human rights organizations and diplomats. This was the topic of the meeting of diplomat

Danish journalist Michael Andersen: I am ashamed that European media and politicians do not understand the tragedy in Kyrgyzstan

Danish journalist Michael Andersen: I am ashamed that European media and politicians do not understand the tragedy in Kyrgyzstan

14.06.2010 16:55 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan

Danish journalist Michael Andersen lived for many years in Central Asia and knows the situation in South Kyrgyzstan European media pay little attention to the tragedy in South Kyrgyzstan. They view it as an interethnic clash between nations which they know very little about. Current media interest i

Islam Karimov & Co are the ones radicalising Central Asia

Islam Karimov & Co are the ones radicalising Central Asia

18.01.2010 22:58 msk Central Asia Interview

Michael Andersen is a political scientist and journalist who has spent many years in Central Asia.

"Let them burn it…"Askar Akaev is outraged with disorder in Kyrgyzstan

"Let them burn it…"Askar Akaev is outraged with disorder in Kyrgyzstan

20.11.2009 11:04 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan

The representatives of Kyrgyz special services, Public Prosecutor’s office and law enforcement agencies showed up in the house of Askar Akaev, the former President of Kyrgyzstan, in Bishkek. They ordered to take all personal belongings and free the house within one day. Two months ago the library of

Movement Against Karimov in Europe

Movement Against Karimov in Europe

05.11.2009 11:01 msk Interview Uzbekistan

The man identifying himself as Mark Ruppert and claiming to be of Sweden founded Movement Against Karimov . The new structure has a page in LiveJournal which begins with "Appeal to the people of the Republic of Uzbekistan". "Uzbek structures of state power under Islam Karimov have been promoting a p

"Uzbek militants are becoming very active in Waziristan" - Senator Ibrahim Khan

"Uzbek militants are becoming very active in Waziristan" - Senator Ibrahim Khan

16.09.2009 15:01 msk Interview Pakistan

There are more than 5,000 Uzbek militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) hiding in North and South Waziristan, the Pakistani newspaper Daily Times reported on 13 September It quoted the FATA Additional Chief Secretary Habibullah Khan who asserted that these militants were known to tra

Dosym Satpayev: Uzbekistan is one of the major destabilization factors in the region

Dosym Satpayev: Uzbekistan is one of the major destabilization factors in the region

23.07.2009 16:17 msk Interview Uzbekistan

After the events in Khanabad Uzbekistan started the erection of concrete walls, digging the ditches and trenches at the border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan without any preliminary agreements. The emerged tensions became the subject of analysis by international experts that again focused the attent

NATO airbase in Kyrgyzstan: Leaving or staying

NATO airbase in Kyrgyzstan: Leaving or staying

08.06.2009 12:26 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan

Referring to deterioration of the situation in his country, President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai asked his Kyrgyz counterpart Kurmanbek Bakiyev to permit NATO to retain its airbase at Manas . The request appeared several months after the decision to have the counter-terrorism coalition shut down it

Arkady Dubnov: The Afghanis tolerate armed occupiers but it is getting increasingly more difficult to do so

Arkady Dubnov: The Afghanis tolerate armed occupiers but it is getting increasingly more difficult to do so

02.06.2009 11:26 msk Afghanistan Interview

The US Mission to NATO regularly invites Western journalists to Afghanistan to show what is being done there in terms of security and how. Six European journalists representing Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Iceland, Georgia and Russia made the trip from Kabul to Kandahar to Bamian to Kabul again this

Miroslav Niyazov: We have acute shortage of political forces, able to lead the country out of crisis

Miroslav Niyazov: We have acute shortage of political forces, able to lead the country out of crisis

15.05.2009 14:39 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan

On May 15 Reporter-Bishkek newspaper published the interview with former Kyrgyz Republic Security Council Secretary, Miroslav Niyazov. Ferghana.Ru presents the interview to the readers, where he says about possible loss of statehood by Kyrgyzstan, complex situation in the country and disability and

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