Kazakhstan: Domestic homicide provokes another pogrom against ethnic group

11.02.2015 01:24 msk Analytics Central Asia Human Rights Kazakhstan Tajikistan

Journalists based in South Kazakhstan kindly provided Fergana with photographs from the scene of events; said journalists are unable to publish these images in their own mass media.

Kyrgyzstan in the European Economic Union despite all doubts

25.12.2014 13:40 msk Analytics Business Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Russia

On 23 Dec 2014, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev signed a document, which brought his country into the fold of the European Economic Union Treaty. Talks on the conditions of Kyrgyzstan’s joining the union lasted literally until the very last hour. A source in the Kyrgyz foreign ministry told Ferg

Only Janaozen female convict released

22.11.2014 12:01 msk Business Human Rights Kazakhstan

Roza Tuletayeva, a female convict in the Aktau Prison, has been released. According to Galym Ageleuov, the president of the Liberty Public Fund, mass media outlets, human rights activists and any interested in the events in Janaozen were able to obtain information only thanks to Ms. Tuletayeva.

Is Central Asia afraid of ISIS?

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

Rabeya Kadeer: “The USSR’s fate awaits China”

09.11.2014 00:42 msk Central Asia China Human Rights Kazakhstan Politics Religious life

The Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XUAR) has been unstable over the last several years: Some in the local Uighur population are unhappy with the way the Chinese authorities are handling the region and are demanding independence from Beijing. Armed clashes between the Uighur population of the region and

Carnegie Moscow presents Russo-Turkish cooperation in “turbulent neighborhood” report

24.10.2014 13:41 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia China Iran Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Politics Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

Carnegie Moscow Center presented the “Exploring the Prospects of Russian-Turkish Cooperation in a Turbulent Neighborhood” report compiled by the Carnegie Center and the Global Relations Forum (GRF) in Istanbul. The two organizations established a Working Group dedicated to exploring the potential fo

Speak Up for success

09.07.2014 23:47 msk Business Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

Speak Up is part of the largest language school network in Poland, which belongs to the international capital group Empik Media & Fashion. In 2012 revenues of the Group were about PLN 3.2 billion (over 1 trillion USD).

Kazakh president prepping power transition

04.02.2013 21:30 msk Analytics Kazakhstan Politics

Several massive reshufflings in key government positions took place in Kazakhstan as early as first days of 2013, and that certainly bears crucial impacts on the country’s future. On the surface, reshuffling of officials is not a novice in our country and the Kazakh society is quite used to this fre

“Everybody says that only the police were shooting”

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

Kazakhstan: Refugee Protestant arrested and could be extradited to Uzbekistan

14.09.2012 16:26 msk Kazakhstan Religious life

Police detained 32 year old Uzbek refugee Makset Djabbarbergenov on 5 September in Almaty (Kazakhstan) and on 7 September the Bostandyk District Prosecutor's Office issued authorisation to detain him for up to 40 days, until the Prosecutor General decides whether he is to be extradited to the Uzbek

Kazakhstan: Court case against opposition continues

06.09.2012 22:12 msk Kazakhstan Politics

The court case against well known opposition activist Vladimir Kozlov and civil activists Serik Sapargali and Akjanat Aminov continues in Aktau ( Kazakhstan ). The case began on 16 August, with nine witnesses questioned between 16 and 21 August, however none of them confirmed the accusations of inci

US Befriends Kazakhstan Dictator, Now World's Largest Producer of Uranium

17.05.2012 21:10 msk Business Kazakhstan

Why does Nazarbaev need a multi-party parliament?

17.01.2012 21:56 msk Analytics Kazakhstan

As a result of parliamentary elections conducted in Kazakhstan on the 15th of January, the pro-presidential Nur-Otan party (local version of “United Russia” wins over 80% of votes, while the two satellite parties (“Ak-Jol” and “People’s communists”) hardly reach the 7% threshold. With three politica

Who and what’s behind the riots in Kazakhstan?

19.12.2011 08:24 msk Analytics Kazakhstan

The conflict in the town of Zhanaozen ( Kazakhstan ) taking dozens of lives did not start a day before. Already in May 2011, oil workers were protesting in the town’s central square demanding a pay raise from the owners of a Kazakhstan-Chinese oil company. Since the capitalists declined to give in,

Kazakhstan: Covert terrorist organizations are in place and not inclined to remain idle

24.11.2011 08:15 msk Analytics Kazakhstan

Terrorists increasingly manifest their existence in Kazakhstan . So far they target representatives of the law enforcement and governmental bodies. As reported earlier by Fergana, on the 12th of November, as a result of bloody tragic events in the town of Taraz (formerly Jambul) in the south Kazakhs

Kazakhstan: Don’t Extradite Uzbeks to Torture. Respect International Obligations

07.06.2011 13:15 msk Human Rights Kazakhstan

Kazakh authorities should not extradite 32 detainees to Uzbekistan , where they face a real risk of torture, ACAT-France, Amnesty International, the Association “Human Rights in Central Asia,” Human Rights Watch, and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said today. The 32 men, who ca