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10.01.2013 16:02 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan
Mayor Myrzakmatov accepting congratulations while others applaud. Courtesy of press-service of the Osh city hall, 9 January 9, 2013
09.01.2013 14:12 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan
Fergana continues its investigation into the incident that shook the south of the Fergana Valley early January 2013.
27.12.2012 12:58 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Many observers have noticed that the Uzbek president’s oldest daughter has started coming out in the media, on TV screens and on the internet more and more often. Whether she has started some new stage in her PR campaign, and what aims the Uzbek princess is following is yet unknown. Maybe she just l
24.12.2012 10:51 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
The 2012 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has concluded, and the system of forced labor of cotton production remained the same as in previous years. December 20, 2012, the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights and the Cotton Campaign released the Review of the 2012 Cotton Harvest, which explains that impl
22.12.2012 10:08 msk Kyrgyzstan
On 19 December, the Bishkek inter-district court held the second hearing on blocking access to the Fergana.RU website. The first session was scheduled for 14 December and was later cancelled due to the absence of the defendant, i.e. representatives of the State Communications Agency (SCA). Today, tw
20.12.2012 17:10 msk Business Kyrgyzstan
Frost has not lifted off Northern Kyrgyzstan for the past two weeks, reaching unfamiliar temperatures of -15 to -20 C. Now people often recall that only this autumn Kyrgyz officials assured the citizens that “the country is prepared for the winter season.” Of course everything turned out to be quite
20.12.2012 16:55 msk Human Rights Russia
On 14 December 2012 Uzbek citizen Yusup Kasymahunov was kidnapped in the Moscow region. It appears that he was kidnapped and taken out the country by Uzbekistan’s security services with the help of Russian border guards: Tashkent was vying for Kasymahunov’s extradition, but official extradition was
14.12.2012 09:50 msk Turkmenistan
Turkmen students have everything that adults have, i.e. they unquestioningly obey their leadership, they cannot express their opinion if they differ from those of their leaders, be it a teacher, dean, vice chancellor or the chancellor himself. In a word, if they are told “it must be” then it must be
12.12.2012 16:50 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Gulnara Karimova makes like she knows nothing about torture - only dresses, yoga and jewelry.
12.12.2012 13:50 msk Politics Uzbekistan
It seems that nobody actually believes that free and fair elections will ever take place in Central Asia. On the other hand, it is still totally unclear, how the power change will happen in some of the authoritarian countries. Will Nazarbayev, Karimov and Rahmon, who have been ruling for twenty and
06.12.2012 11:47 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The Uzbek government should unconditionally release all of its political prisoners on the 20 th anniversary of the adoption of the country’s constitution on December 8, 2012, human rights groups said today. Freeing the country’s many political prisoners would demonstrate a genuine commitment to Uzbe
05.12.2012 12:46 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan must introduce the death penalty – it is more “humane and economically viable” than a life sentence, said social democrat fraction MP Erkin Sakebayev on 4 December at a meeting of the committee on law, safety and crime fighting, KYRtag reports.
03.12.2012 21:28 msk Uzbekistan
World famous film star Gerard Depardieu has visited Uzbekistan. The actor visited Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand from 26 to 29 November. It seems that the visit made a bright impression on the sixty year old actor. He noted the “unbelievable scenery, richness and a sort of calm in everything” and c
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
30.11.2012 00:07 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Left photo: Nadejda Atayeva, leader of the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (France)
28.11.2012 23:17 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
The prestigious International Press Freedom Awards were given out by the Committee to Protect Journalists ( CPJ.org ) in the USA on 20 November. Human rights activist and journalist Azimjon Askarov, an ethnic Uzbek from Kyrgyzstan , is one of the four laureates of the prize. Fergana editor Daniil Ki
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