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Tajikistan-Russia: Demarche as Rakhmon's answer to Medvedev

Tajikistan-Russia: Demarche as Rakhmon's answer to Medvedev

02.02.2009 10:48 msk Analytics Tajikistan

President of Tajikistan did not come to Moscow yesterday. He is not going to meet with Dmitry Medvedev today. Neither will he attend summits of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Eurasian Economic Community scheduled for February 4. Emomali Rakhmon apparently cancelled the trip to the capital

Eurasian Economic Comunity: Forget illusions

Eurasian Economic Comunity: Forget illusions

29.01.2009 12:28 msk Business Russia

The Moscow Carnegie Center organized a seminar "Eurasian Economic Community: Prospects of Development" on January 27. Organization Secretary General Tair Mansurov started it off with a brief (not more than 30 minutes) report on what the Eurasian Economic Community was about. The audience understood

Medvedev's visit to Tashkent is extremely opportune

Medvedev's visit to Tashkent is extremely opportune

26.01.2009 12:33 msk Analytics Russia

Photo by Russian presidential press service ( Kremlin.ru )

Uzbekistan: Students prohibited to approach the US Embassy in Tashkent

Uzbekistan: Students prohibited to approach the US Embassy in Tashkent

22.01.2009 18:06 msk Uzbekistan

Ferghana.Ru sources in Tashkent say that administration of colleges and universities demand written reports from their students on every visit to the US Embassy.

Turkmenistan: Unknown struggle with dope

Turkmenistan: Unknown struggle with dope

22.01.2009 17:44 msk Turkmenistan

President of Turkmenistan Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov congratulated the State Drug Enforcement Service on its first anniversary on January 18.

Alimjan Tokhtakhunov and his Silk Road

Alimjan Tokhtakhunov and his Silk Road

21.01.2009 13:11 msk Russia

Businessman Alimjan Tokhtakhunov (he was born in Tashkent but lives in Moscow) better known as Taivanchik wrote a book My Silk Road . Plot of the story begins with his arrest in Italy and ends with his release and return to Moscow. It is not a story of the ten months spent in Italian jail, it is a c

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan as a Ministry of Propaganda

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan as a Ministry of Propaganda

16.01.2009 21:42 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

Photo of musician playng the Karnay, Uzbek national instrument, a long trumpet with a mouthpiece. Photo by © Ferghana.ru

Kyrgyzstan: Is President Kurmanbek Bakiyev trading the US Army for Russian dollars?

Kyrgyzstan: Is President Kurmanbek Bakiyev trading the US Army for Russian dollars?

12.01.2009 09:35 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics

According to the Moscow-based newspaper Vremya Novostei (see the piece "Bakiyev's Expensive Gift To Moscow" on January 12, 2009), the Kyrgyz leadership intends to officially cancel the agreement with the United States concerning Gansi AF Base on the territory of Manas (airport of the Kyrgyz capital

Uzbekistan: echo of the Kagan explosions reverberates throughout the Bukhara region (see photo)

Uzbekistan: echo of the Kagan explosions reverberates throughout the Bukhara region (see photo)

12.01.2009 09:25 msk Uzbekistan

Photos by Ferghana.Ru (made in summer 2008, right after the explosions)

Do the Uzbek-Turkish relations get more cordial? Even if they do, the process is slow

Do the Uzbek-Turkish relations get more cordial? Even if they do, the process is slow

24.12.2008 18:57 msk Business Uzbekistan

Uzbek-Turkish business forum took place in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan , on December 22. Organized by the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Economic Affairs, Investments, and Trade and the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Trade, the meeting sought to expand bilateral trade and economic cooperation and ad

Uzbekistan: Muhammad Salikh is working on an Orange Revolution

Uzbekistan: Muhammad Salikh is working on an Orange Revolution

22.12.2008 11:12 msk Interview Uzbekistan

Political immigrant and Erk party leader Muhammad Salikh proclaimed the beginning of unification of the Uzbek opposition in early December. It is common knowledge meanwhile that all previous attempts at consolidation ended with nothing to show for the effort. Ferghana.Ru asked Sanobar Shermatova, an

Kyrgyzstan: Criminal charges to be fabricated against the opposition

Kyrgyzstan: Criminal charges to be fabricated against the opposition

16.12.2008 13:43 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics

On December 15, the Kyrgyz Prosecutor General's Office officially launched an investigation into the alleged theft of state funds from the Finance Ministry when it had been headed by Alikbek Jekshenkulov, one of the leaders of the Movement for Fairness nowadays. Offices of opposition parties and mov

Uzbekistan: The authorities circumvented a French and German film show at the Museum of Cinematograph in Tashkent

Uzbekistan: The authorities circumvented a French and German film show at the Museum of Cinematograph in Tashkent

15.12.2008 09:48 msk Arts Uzbekistan

An event organized by the Hugo Center (France) was the first to be circumvented at the Museum of Cinematograph in Tashkent . Days of German Cinematograph were treated at the facility in a similar manner barely twenty-four hours later. This treatment is attributed to the sudden attention to the Museu

Yuri Krupnov: Russia should industrialize Afghanistan and Central Asian countries

Yuri Krupnov: Russia should industrialize Afghanistan and Central Asian countries

08.12.2008 10:18 msk Analytics Russia

The Russian Movement of Development suggested New Middle East , a new geopolitical project. Founders of the movement maintain that Russian diplomacy should propose establishment of a new region that will comprise Russia, China, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Pakistan, and Central Asian c

The passion of the hunter-president, or About our rams

The passion of the hunter-president, or About our rams

07.12.2008 12:04 msk Uzbekistan

Bulgarian president Georgi Purvanov. Photo from Blog.Creato.biz

Russia: New web site for Gastarbeiters from Kyrgyzstan presented in Moscow

Russia: New web site for Gastarbeiters from Kyrgyzstan presented in Moscow

01.12.2008 17:36 msk Migration Russia

KGinfo.ru was presented in Moscow as a web site for labor immigrants from Kyrgyzstan . Authors of the project believe that information posted on the web site will make adaptation in Russia easier.

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