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16.05.2015 17:13 msk Central Asia Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
On the eve of his 64th birthday anniversary, human rights activist Azimjan Askarov wrote a letter of gratitude addressed to all those who supported and continue supporting him—friends, co-workers, international organizations and private entities.
13.05.2015 23:03 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Wednesday 13 May marks ten years since the massacre in Andizhan. Uzbek authorities claim that this is “a closed topic”. Totalitarian regimes decide a lot, but not this. The case is not closed until the victims’ families say so.
13.05.2015 20:50 msk Analytics Ferghana Valley Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
May 13 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the bloodiest events in the history of modern Uzbekistan. On that day in 2005, thousands of Uzbek citizens took to Babur Square in the city of Andijan in protest. The demonstration was a reaction to the three-month trial of 23 entrepreneurs from the Andija
28.04.2015 20:45 msk Business Human Rights Uzbekistan
It would be difficult to overestimate the role small and medium businesses and enterprises play in any country’s economic development. The experience many developed nations have suggests that this particular sector ensures an economy enjoys necessary flexibility and capacity to appropriately respond
23.04.2015 10:06 msk Business Central Asia Human Rights Kazakhstan
The film “Karachaganak:Children in Exchange for Oil” deals with tragedy that occurred in the Kazakh village of Berezovka on 28 November 2014. Emissions from the Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field have resulted in the mass poisoning children in the village. The situation in Berezovka is critic
15.04.2015 11:17 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Images of cotton fields and workers are provided by the author
09.04.2015 23:41 msk Human Rights Politics Turkey, Republic of
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a bill on domestic security into law on April 3, which significantly expands powers of the police. Those of our readers who closely watched how the Turkish president pushed the bill down the MPs’ throats might be under an impression that heated debates a
03.04.2015 09:44 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Shukhrat Rustamov, a Tashkent-based human rights activist, administered a self-styled “monitoring” of voting during the recent presidential elections in Uzbekistan on March 29. He has personally counted the number of voters that came to Polling Station No. 492 in Tashkent throughout the entire elect
31.03.2015 12:09 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
“Everyone is voting for Karimov, our entire family,” says a clean-cut and round-faced storeowner in Tashkent’s Labzak district. “Another person will be thinking about himself for the next 20 years. But he [Karimov] does not think about himself, thinks about his people only.”
28.03.2015 22:09 msk Analytics Human Rights Politics Religious life Russia Uzbekistan
Pulat Ahunov is an oppositionist from Uzbekistan, who is chairman of the Sweden-based Association Central Asia and the founder of the Foundation for Combatting Corruption in Uzbekistan. Mr. Ahunov shares his memories of meetings with Islam Karimov in late 1980s to mid-1990s.
10.03.2015 09:46 msk Analytics Politics Uzbekistan
The article was originally published at the Moscow Carnegie Center web-site.
08.03.2015 11:28 msk Analytics Central Asia Human Rights Politics Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of
Tajik oppositionist Umarali Kuvvatov assassinated in Istanbul shortly after Boris Nemtsov’s assassination in Moscow
17.02.2015 12:38 msk Analytics Politics Uzbekistan
Will the population of Uzbekistan again vote for Islam Karimov, who is again nominated for presidency in an apparent and brazen violation of the Constitution? Having analyzed the current situation in the country and the local population’s attitudes, a Tashkent-based observer arrives at the following
13.02.2015 14:31 msk Analytics Central Asia Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Religious life Uzbekistan
Photo by Fergana. Other sources indicated under respective images
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.
04.02.2015 01:00 msk Analytics Central Asia Politics Religious life
Before commenting upon current events, I would like to pause for a moment until the first towering, tsunami-like wave of quasi-pathological Islamophobia recedes—a wave which swamped all news channels as well as the heads of many of our contemporaries, who alas seem to have abruptly become stupid (or
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