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Uzbekistan: News from the Fields

20.10.2009 16:41 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

Photo © Ferghana.Ru, October of 2009. The Nukus area

Turkmen thaw ended in scorching summer temperatures

17.10.2009 00:06 msk Analytics Turkmenistan

Natalia Anurova-Shabunts, a citizen of both Turkmenistan and Russia, wrote an article for Ferghana.Ru that gives an account of life in Turkmenistan. How its citizens are denied permission to travel abroad, how students and instructors are compelled to wear uniforms, how state officials bully people

Uzbekistan: Film Industry Flourishes After a Decade of Post-Soviet Decline

12.10.2009 16:59 msk Arts Uzbekistan

Film industry is flourishing in Uzbekistan as low-budget movies starring famous singers and utilizing heart-wrenching plots are gaining popularity with the Uzbek audiences. However, widespread copyright piracy and shortage of investment remain major roadblocks for the industry’s development.

Eight years of ISAF operations in Afghanistan. Who are the winners?

09.10.2009 16:29 msk Afghanistan Analytics

The Enduring Freedom operation was launched in the night of October 7, 2001. International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF), operating under NATO, have been present in Afghanistan for already 8 years. ISAF are represented by 39 countries, both inside and outside NATO.

Uzbekistan: The students in the Tashkent Oblast do not go to secondary schools (photo)

05.10.2009 14:49 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

Photo by © Ferghana.Ru. October 3, 2009. Yangiyul, the Tashkent Oblast. The photos are available at Gallery.Ferghana.Ru

Uzbek field chronicle-2009: the Syr Darya children

30.09.2009 15:05 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

Few days ago the secondary school children in the Syr Darya Oblast of Uzbekistan flooded the cotton fields just as their counterparts in other regions. Unlike in the previous years, this year the local authorities officially instructed to attract only 14 plus kids, 7th graders, for cropping of "whit

Uzbekistan: Surkhandarya students pick cotton, ones in Ferghana continue their studies

25.09.2009 07:43 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

The Human Rights Society Ezgulik ( Mercy ) reported classes suspended at approximately 600 schools out of 840 in the Surkhandarja region of Uzbekistan on the order from the regional administration's Directorate of Education.

Uzbekistan: "Wanted" Posters All Over Tashkent

22.09.2009 22:32 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

Photos of criminals appeared in Tashkent for the first time in years. Notices in Uzbek and Russian attached to the photos indicate that these people are wanted for grave crimes (religious extremism). These "wanted" posters can be seen at practically every market in the capital of Uzbekistan and even

Tashkent's jubilee. It happens once every 2,200 years

17.09.2009 16:40 msk Politics Uzbekistan

Celebration of the Independence Day is always the central event of the year in Uzbekistan . Official media outlets boast of unprecedented successes and achievements a whole month before the festivities. Security structures and law enforcement agencies (Border Service, Interior Ministry, and National

"Uzbek militants are becoming very active in Waziristan" - Senator Ibrahim Khan

16.09.2009 15:01 msk Interview Pakistan

There are more than 5,000 Uzbek militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) hiding in North and South Waziristan, the Pakistani newspaper Daily Times reported on 13 September It quoted the FATA Additional Chief Secretary Habibullah Khan who asserted that these militants were known to tra

Marijuana in Kazakhstan. Not to Be Destroyed but Used

14.09.2009 10:00 msk Kazakhstan

All drug users and dealers in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and other neighboring countries know that marijuana grows in the Chuy valley. There is no way this narcotic herb can be destroyed: dig over the land just to see more of it growing there in the next year, pull out seven meter long roots to bring sa

The schools in Uzbekistan see sharp deficit of textbooks

03.09.2009 15:46 msk Analytics Uzbekistan

New textbooks have been in deficit since long ago in Uzbekistan. The school libraries receive very few of them and cannot physically provide them to every student. According to the teachers in Tashkent, there are only 5-6 books per each 35-40 schoolchildren. If the student misses his line for book,

Skirmish in Tashkent. Attempt at live commentary

31.08.2009 17:20 msk Uzbekistan

What information is available to Feghana.Ru indicates that a particularly intensive skirmish between the police and unidentified criminals took place on the territory of the so called Old Town of Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan , on August 29.

Uzbekistan: Unassailable pest of the Aral Sea

26.08.2009 16:51 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

Since recently Uzbekistan has been running strict policy in relation to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on water resource allocation, especially in Uzbek part of the Aral Sea.

Ferghana.Ru: 10 years of news-wire

17.08.2009 14:17 msk Central Asia Ferghana Valley

"Tajik-Uzbek relations are exacerbating again. The reason is the bomb strike, caused by Uzbek air force to the objects in Tajikistani territory. On the other hand, the escalation of conflict is not expected…"

The president of Tajikistan is preparing the successor

12.08.2009 16:15 msk Politics Tajikistan

The President of Tajikistan is a lucky father: he has seven daughters and two sons. The eldest son of Emomali Rakhmnon – Rustami Emomali – is 22 and his father views him as the successor. Despite the fact that Rakhmon let nobody get close to him, apparently, his son is another story.

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