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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
04.07.2017 10:55 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
The President of Kyrgyzstan once again celebrates his victory. Almazbek Atambayev could manage to outdo his predecessors in his state post: he practically neutralised the opposition, divided civil and journalistic society, squeezed out dissenters from the country, he simply slandered the most “stubb
13.06.2017 06:37 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
The second largest ethnic group in Kyrgyzstan is Uzbek: according to statistical data of 2015, there are about 900 thousand people, which is almost 15% of the total number of residents. At the same time, there is no opportunity for Uzbek youth to get a high-quality secondary education and even less
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
01.06.2017 12:31 msk Analytics Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life
For the past seven years, the number of convicts for extremism and terrorism in Kyrgyzstan has tripled. In 2009, according to the State Penitentiary Service (SSC), 51 people were convicted for such crimes, whereas today 185 people including 7 women are serving their sentences. Among this category of
29.05.2017 16:21 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Russia
In the evening on 27 May 2017 the major television channel of Kyrgyzstan aired an 8-minute report with the speaking name ‘Instigators,’ in which the Bishkek journalist Ulugbek Babakulov was accused of inciting ethnic hatred, and the website of the Fergana News Agency was called ‘biased’ and called t
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
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
28.04.2017 15:58 msk Analytics Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Migration Politics Religious life Russia Uzbekistan
Brothers and neighbours speak about Rakhmat Akilov in Uzbekistan and Abror and Akram Azimov brothers in Kyrgyzstan . A good childhood and obedience, law-abiding behaviour, positive reputation in the neighbourhood, diligence – such testimonials would make a decent citizen, but not terrorist.
21.04.2017 18:57 msk Business Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Gulyam and Sardor Umarov, natives of Uzbekistan, children of the formerly well-known opposition figure Sanjar Umarov, are currently engaged in large-scale technological projects in the U.S., while not forgetting their roots and developing business which is relevant with the interests of their homela
19.04.2017 11:03 msk Analytics Business Kyrgyzstan Politics
People everywhere are curious about how this or that person acquired a glut of wealth. In particular if some nouveau riche (and only this tells a lot) holds a high public office at the same time. There are countries where career growth correlates with financial – a newly rich having a cushy job. Fer
11.04.2017 14:01 msk Analytics Business Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
The original article in Russian is here . Thanslated into English by openDemocracyRussia .
31.01.2017 09:21 msk Afghanistan Central Asia Human Rights Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Migration Politics Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Uzbekistan
Neo-patrimonial regimes have been established in Central Asian countries following the implosion of the Soviet Union. The new elites divided entire economies and “sweet-spot” government positions between “bosses” and their “vassals.” Meanwhile, the rest of the society, who are excluded from such net
26.01.2017 12:14 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
Such scribbles could be seen almost all over Southern Kyrgyzstan in the summer of 2010—residents called for help and protection from pogroms
24.01.2017 22:54 msk Analytics Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
Early on January 24, a verdict was issued in the case of Azimjan Askarov , an ethnic Uzbek, journalist and human rights advocate, who was arrested during the bloody events in Southern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010. Mr Askarov was accused of organising mass disorders and killing of a police officer. Appell
18.01.2017 10:09 msk Analytics Business Central Asia Cotton Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
The Harvard International Review 's January 2017 edition includes an academic article on problems with water supply in Central Asia. The article author Alisher Ilkhamov is Alisher Ilkhamov is a Research Associate at the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus at the School of Oriental and
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