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31.01.2018 17:59 msk Afghanistan Analytics Business Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Emomali Rahmon is a leader whose political whit served him well: not only is he the President of Tajikistan for the 26th year in a row, but he has also been able to personally enrich himself and his family. Having eliminated most of the checks on his power inside the country, something wholly differ
19.01.2018 17:24 msk Analytics Kazakhstan Politics Religious life
In 2017, from Kazakhstan, there was little news about outbursts of extremist or terrorist activity. Data on the number of people who were charged and imprisoned for committing crimes "against the peace and security of mankind" (under this heading all "extremist" and "terrorist" charges are grouped i
19.01.2018 15:38 msk Analytics Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Political Science is usually quite good at figuring out the main power players and relevant structures in the political systems of most countries. Those of us who are interested in Central Asia, however, will encounter an utterly incredible mess in the analysis of the political processes in the regi
30.11.2017 08:14 msk Human Rights Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan ignores one of the main world trends - intolerance of sexual harassment in the workplace. As if in contrast to the events taking place in the West, where the careers of passionate celebrities collapse one by one, Kazakhstani victims of harassment remain practically unprotected. No one can
29.11.2017 13:29 msk Analytics Human Rights Kazakhstan Politics Religious life
In Western Kazakhstan, religious parents are suing the Ministry of Education: their daughters are not allowed to attend schools because they wear headscarves. Officials, representing a secular state, admit the possibility of a cross-claim - the failure to comply with parental responsibilities. Why i
23.11.2017 03:17 msk Business Kazakhstan
Exactly ten years ago, the financial world first in Kazakhstan , and then in Italy, actively discussed a somewhat unusual transaction for those times. Strange, however, more likely for Kazakhstan - for the first time a big western company with a worldwide reputation acquired a private commercial ban
29.10.2017 22:50 msk Analytics Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Weekly editorial by Ernest Zhanaev, English Editor
23.10.2017 09:26 msk Business Central Asia Editorial Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan
Weekly editorial by Ernest Zhanaev, English Editor, Fergana News
15.08.2017 23:28 msk Human Rights Kazakhstan Religious life Russia
For the first time in Kazakhstan, the priest of the Orthodox parish is in the court charged with the violation of the law “On Religious Activities and Religious Associations.”
14.07.2017 22:21 msk Analytics Central Asia Human Rights Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
The 19th Central Asia media conference named “Open Journalism in Central Asia” organised by the office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media will be held in Tashkent on 18-19 October 2017. It is expected that participants, “including journalists, representatives from governments, civil
02.06.2017 11:53 msk Central Asia Editorial Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
This May brought remarkable events, which will develop during summer vacations and will define how autumn will develop further. Surely, these are activities around presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan clearing and modifying political and media space for the pro-presidential candidate, or Uzbekistan
25.05.2017 12:54 msk Analytics Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Migration Politics Religious life Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
The recent terror act in the St. Petersburg metro on 3 April, in the organisation of which Russian special services suspect people from Central Asia, exacerbated issues related to migration processes from the countries of this region to Russia. Last week in Moscow, the Sakharov Center jointly with t
16.05.2017 21:58 msk Analytics Business Human Rights Internet Kazakhstan Media Review Politics
In Kazakhstan , most of the media owners are hiding behind their formal founders. But, as they say, if the secret is known to three – then everyone knows this. Having talked with experts Fergana News Agency made its own list of the true owners of the Kazakh media.
10.05.2017 15:30 msk Analytics Central Asia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan
Problems with the conservation of saiga (or saiga antelope) in Uzbekistan have increased, while attention from the state has decreased. About this tells an open letter from the public representatives of the country to the chairman of the State Committee for Nature Protection (‘Goskompriroda’, since
05.05.2017 17:01 msk Analytics Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
The ‘Immortal Regiment’ action, which relatives and descendants of those killed at the fronts of the Great Patriotic War had been planning to organise and hold on 9 May 2017 in Tajikistan , was prohibited. One of the official reasons is that ‘according to Islamic traditions, it is inadmissible to go
03.05.2017 12:30 msk Kazakhstan Politics
On 22 April 2017, active users of social networks in Kazakhstan noticed a slow down access to the internet in the evening. Those using Chrome browser even saw small T-rexes jumping on the monitors. It has been so several times in a row for two hours.
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