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28.11.2008 22:19 msk Business Tajikistan
Russian Presidential Administration Director Sergei Naryshkin said in Dushanbe that Tajikistan might count on participation in the Customs Union and become a partner of Eurasian Bank of Development founders in the near future. According to Naryshkin, it will make investments more readily available t
28.11.2008 22:17 msk Analytics Central Asia
Presidents of Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan will meet in the city of Turkmenbashi on the Caspian shores this Saturday to discuss energy problems. Experts have no doubts whatsoever that the discussion will be focused on Nabucco, gas pipeline whose construction the Western community promotes an
26.11.2008 13:48 msk Business Central Asia
The international conference that took place in Tashkent on November 20 discussed the part public organizations were playing in promotion of innovative projects and attraction of investors. The Russian delegation presented the Trans-Asian Corridor of Development, a combination of a canal, highway, a
18.11.2008 16:42 msk Interview Uzbekistan
Antonietta Gobbis is a professor at Uzbek State University of Foreign Languages in Tashkent. She has gained a respect with her students and colleagues since she arrived to Tashkent in January 2008 for her professional activity and friendliness. How the inhabitant of Florence - the city that is often
17.11.2008 13:24 msk Afghanistan Analytics
The latest reports from Afghanistan where the irreconcilable opposition reverted to violence and terror indicate that the country may find itself back in civil war. This problem is becoming a serious headache for the West that keeps a major military contingent in Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai
15.11.2008 09:52 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is in the process of withdrawing from the Eurasian Economic Community it was a member to since 2006. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan submitted an official note to the EurAsEC Secretariat on the October 16-17 accompanied by President Karimov’s Official letter of explanation to th
12.11.2008 09:47 msk Business Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan embarked upon land reforms according to the 3077 decree signed by President Karimov in October 2008. Its aim is to strengthen the farm households by drawing hodgepodge of small farmlands under one holder. Local observers come to agree that land reforms what looks more as an attempt of "co
11.11.2008 11:46 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
David Holzmeyer is an American living in Khujand, Tajikistan. He teaches English at Khujand State University.
11.11.2008 10:24 msk Uzbekistan
The perception of fashion in Uzbekistan is quite different. It depends completely on a range of clothes available in its local bazaars. As the Uzbek cities, including the capital city of Tashkent, have almost no boutiques and shops selling modern clothes, the choice of those who want to buy high qua
08.11.2008 15:58 msk Kazakhstan Politics
On November 6 the ruling Nur Otan party held an anti-corruption forum in Astana. As corruption poses serious challenges to this post-Soviet state, its officials are likely to be concerned with it rather on personal level than formal one. Making what it appeared like a policy speech addressed to all
28.10.2008 22:12 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Last Friday, 24 October, was the first anniversary of the murder of the Uzbek-Kyrgyz journalist, Alisher Saipov. With his articles about the massacre in Andijan in May 2005 — where the Uzbek army mowed down up to 1,000 peaceful demonstrators — Alisher was a thorn in the side of the Uzbek regime. It
24.10.2008 09:47 msk Kyrgyzstan
Alisher Saipov, a 26-year-old independent editor, was brutally silenced on October 24, 2007. An unidentified killer fired at him three times, using a Makarov pistol, in his hometown of Osh, Kyrgyzstan.
10.10.2008 18:17 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage at a ten-year prison sentence handed down today by a court in Nukus, in the west of the country, to Solidzhon Abdurakhmanov, correspondent for several independent websites.
02.10.2008 15:42 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
The start of the school year in Europe each autumn is a period when education resumes its place at the heart of the lives of pupils and their families. The equivalent of this annual cycle is very different in the central Asian state of Uzbekistan, where soon after their own school year begins, most
25.09.2008 08:54 msk Arts Central Asia
Bishkek residents are surprised to hear unusual music on the streets of the otherwise very quiet city. A violinist, who grew up in Tokyo and Taiwan, studied and got married in the US, is a living representative of a cultural polyglot.
19.09.2008 10:07 msk Central Asia Interview
Elin Jönsson, a Swedish journalist, has recently published a book The Art of Concealing Mass Murder about the May 2005 Andijan events in Uzbekistan. Elin spent two years writing the book, which analyzes events prior to the turmoil, discusses details of a tragic day when troops fired at peaceful demo
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