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22.07.2013 00:56 msk Analytics Interview Politics Uzbekistan
Nigara Khidoyatova, Uzbek democratic opposition leader
04.07.2013 09:23 msk Politics Uzbekistan
Uzbek president’s younger daughter, Lola Tillayeva-Karimova, 34, bought the Le Palais palace in Beverly Hills, Califorina, for 58 million USD, The Real Estalker wrote.
03.07.2013 00:01 msk Analytics Business Cotton Uzbekistan
The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights compiled and distributed a new video clip on the forced labor of doctors and other medicine-related professionals to weeding cotton fields in Uzbekistan .
02.07.2013 23:35 msk Human Rights Interview Kyrgyzstan Politics
On 27 Jun 2013, the parliament of Kyrgyzstan adopted a decision to relieve Tursunbek Akun from the post of ombudsman. A special commission identified violations of the ombudsman’s oath as the main human rights advocate. Nurbek Toktakunov, a well-known lawyer with significant experience, is among tho
02.07.2013 13:31 msk Analytics Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
The Representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, recently praised the Kyrgyz authorities for “creating a favorable media environment.” However, she fell short of specifying what exact “favorable environment” she meant in a countr
24.06.2013 23:35 msk Analytics Business Interview Migration Politics Russia Uzbekistan
President Islam Karimov pictured rapping “those lazy migrants” during an interview with the Uzbekistan TV Channel
19.06.2013 09:58 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan Politics
In the evening of 17 June 2013, the second level court in Bishkek acquitted the three Kyrgyz MPs who were charged with an attempt to illegally usurp power in the country. Kamchibek Tashiyev, Talant Mamytov and Sadyr Japarov walked out of the preliminary detention facility they were in keeping their
11.06.2013 01:37 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan Politics
Sergey Abashin, PhD in history, is a leading fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology under the Russian Academy of Sciences. In his piece below, he ponders lessons and challenges of the bloody events in Southern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010.
03.06.2013 01:37 msk Business Kyrgyzstan Politics
Disorders and disturbances, clashes between the “opposition” and law enforcement bodies, police officers fleeing from rally participants, freed “hostages,” loudmouthed speakers and hasty statements on the part of politicians. Does this all not sound too familiar? Yes, we did – here in Kyrgyzstan . T
31.05.2013 00:26 msk Central Asia Human Rights Interview Migration Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
The US-based independent expert on Eurasia and Russian translator Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick answered Fergana editor-in-chief's questions. The interview was on the recent arrest of another former Uzbek citizen in the United States, Fazliddin Kurbanov. The expert is certain that there were most seriou
28.05.2013 09:22 msk Analytics Human Rights Migration Politics Uzbekistan
Fazliddin Kurbanov, an Uzbekistani immigrant in the USA was detained for alleged support of terrorism. He will appear in court early July and will be held in detention until then. See the official affidavit on the CNN’s website .
08.05.2013 22:03 msk Business Central Asia Politics Uzbekistan
The Strategic Military and Transport Base of the Federative Republic of Germany is located in the Uzbek town of Termez near the Afghan border; its maintenance costs several tens of millions of euros a year.
19.04.2013 22:06 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
Beating lawyers is becoming somewhat of a norm if they are defending suspects tried for June 2010 events in Kyrgyzstan. In 2010 alone, about 150 lawyers refused to represent and defend interests of ethnic Uzbeks, fearing harassment and beating by claimants and their supporters. Fergana wrote about s
05.04.2013 21:48 msk Internet Uzbekistan
President Islam Karimov is against restricting Internet access
29.03.2013 11:15 msk Internet Kyrgyzstan Politics Russia
The head of the State Communications Agency (SCA) of Kyrgyzstan , Mr. Almaz Kadyrkulov, told the Vecherniy Bishkek newspaper that local ISPs “have the right” to unblock access to the Fergana news agency ’s website: “[Communications] operators have the right to unblock [access to] the website, and I
23.03.2013 23:03 msk Politics Uzbekistan
Muhammad Salih (l) and President Islam Karimov
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