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16.09.2008 16:16 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
Just recently the Uzbek government vowed to combat the use of child labour on cotton fields. However, latest reports from Uzbekistan appear at odds with government’s intentions.
15.09.2008 13:56 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
Turkmen police officials say they neutralized a drug gang on Saturday, however, local analysts suspect much stronger forces were involved in skirmishes with security services.
15.09.2008 11:01 msk Business Russia
Kyrgyzstan is the most conducive country in Central Asia for doing business, the World Bank Doing Business 2009 report states.
12.09.2008 16:59 msk Politics Turkmenistan
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov’s administration has been building the image of a liberalizing state after the death of his totalitarian predecessor for two years. The forthcoming new Constitution, already proclaimed as a stronghold of the Turkmen renaissance, promises to eliminate redundant e
10.09.2008 15:02 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics
Deep dissatisfaction brews among the Kyrgyz population as power cuts have been introduced throughout the country. Although President Bakiev hastened to reassure that heat and electricity supply will not be interrupted this winter, local observers say there are few mechanisms to make it possible, whi
09.09.2008 11:33 msk Afghanistan Analytics
President George W. Bush will announce Tuesday a gradual redeployment of U.S. military personnel from Iraq to increasingly violent Afghanistan, with as many as 4,500 new troops slated to deploy to Afghanistan by January.
08.09.2008 15:55 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Low water level is threatening fish population in the Syrdarya River, experts say. This year the volume of water is ten times lower than last year and shoals of fish simply could not swim to spawning, Ablyakim Abirov, head of the Syrdarya state biological inspection in Uzbekistan, told Ferghana.ru.
04.09.2008 12:58 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics
Alisher Saipov, our colleague and prominent journalist from Kyrgyzstan, would be 27 on September 4, 2008. However, this brave and extremely talented young man did not live to see this day.
04.09.2008 07:51 msk Analytics Central Asia
This week Russia’s top leaders were frequent guests in Central Asia, trying to gather support for its controversial policies in the Caucasus and demonstrate to the rest of the world that its positions in the lucrative Central Asian energy sector are stronger than ever.
01.09.2008 18:01 msk Analytics Tajikistan
The inscription just above a tunnel at the foot of the colossal Nurek hydropower dam in south central Tajikistan is succinct: "Water Is Life." The frigid, frothing Vakhsh River rushing under it adds a visual punctuation mark.
29.08.2008 03:18 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
As more international companies from Europe, US and Canada refuse to buy Uzbek cotton in boycott to forced child labour in cotton fields, Uzbek authorities, who have been fiercely denying children are being sent to the fields, seem now ready for dialogue over the issue.
28.08.2008 17:37 msk Analytics Central Asia
In the uproar over Russia's fight with Georgia, China has stood out by its reticence, seeking to protect ties with Moscow while voicing concern about a territorial break-up that could set a precedent it fears, Reuters reports.
27.08.2008 22:18 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Health condition of Kagan residents, who witnessed series of powerful blasts at the artillery depot on July 10, has been deteriorating, according to unverified reports.
27.08.2008 21:01 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz Department of Civil Aviation is responsible for August 24 air crash in the Bishkek airport, Kyrgyz deputy and owner of the Esen Air company, Begaly Nargozuyev, told Ferghana.ru.
21.08.2008 21:39 msk Arts Uzbekistan
As capital Tashkent is getting prepared for 2200 anniversary celebrations next year, one of its historical sites, an ancient settlement of Minguruk, from which Tashkent developed several centuries ago, is now being temporarily closed. However, Tashkent residents are worried about the way operations
15.08.2008 22:18 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz Prime-Minister Igor Chudinov may face dismissal after his cabinet was reprimanded by the President in late July for allegedly poor performance, inability to curb inflation, rising food prices and energy crisis. In the interview with the Reporter-Bishkek newspaper Chudinov said that ruling par
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