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15.08.2017 23:28 msk Human Rights Kazakhstan Religious life Russia
For the first time in Kazakhstan, the priest of the Orthodox parish is in the court charged with the violation of the law “On Religious Activities and Religious Associations.”
11.08.2017 09:29 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan Politics
Kyrgyzstan is the only country in Central Asia that surprises with its unpredictable elections. Fergana News Agency with the assistance of its sources drew a picture of the current situation.
14.07.2017 22:21 msk Analytics Central Asia Human Rights Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
The 19th Central Asia media conference named “Open Journalism in Central Asia” organised by the office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media will be held in Tashkent on 18-19 October 2017. It is expected that participants, “including journalists, representatives from governments, civil
06.07.2017 21:32 msk Analytics Central Asia Editorial
This month of June brought us a contradictory timeline. Some governments are gaining a popular weight among ordinary citizens, while others are ignoring a wider opinion and a common sense. Any outsider can be lured by honeyed promises, finely drawn charts, glittering buildings from the future. Find
04.07.2017 10:55 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
The President of Kyrgyzstan once again celebrates his victory. Almazbek Atambayev could manage to outdo his predecessors in his state post: he practically neutralised the opposition, divided civil and journalistic society, squeezed out dissenters from the country, he simply slandered the most “stubb
30.06.2017 15:51 msk Human Rights Migration Politics Russia Uzbekistan
The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine denied the extradition request of Akbar Abdullaev by Uzbekistan , where he is accused of a number of economic crimes, his lawyer Oliver Wallash informed Fergana about it on 27 June.
29.06.2017 15:18 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Uzbekistan
If you google “modern cotton slavery” phrase you would immediately understand what a country will be discussed. These words are tightly connected with Uzbekistan . Although, how much tightly?
15.06.2017 22:50 msk Analytics Business Editorial Politics Uzbekistan
Mahalla (in Uzbek, accent on the last syllable) - is a quarter community in the cities and villages of Central Asia
15.06.2017 19:28 msk Human Rights Politics Turkmenistan
A modern history of independent and neutral Turkmenistan has fixed a tradition: if the government does not succeed, for example, the treasury becomes empty and there is nothing to pay many months of salary debts to civil servants, or the intimidated people are on the verge of displeasure, the power
13.06.2017 06:37 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
The second largest ethnic group in Kyrgyzstan is Uzbek: according to statistical data of 2015, there are about 900 thousand people, which is almost 15% of the total number of residents. At the same time, there is no opportunity for Uzbek youth to get a high-quality secondary education and even less
05.06.2017 10:53 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
On 4 June at 12 am in Tashkent, an impromptu public action was held at the entrance to Bobur Park in Tashkent to collect signatures under the petition demanding “To punish those guilty of the death of Ibragimov Jasurbek” - a student of the Tashkent medical college brutally beaten in early May and di
02.06.2017 11:53 msk Central Asia Editorial Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
This May brought remarkable events, which will develop during summer vacations and will define how autumn will develop further. Surely, these are activities around presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan clearing and modifying political and media space for the pro-presidential candidate, or Uzbekistan
01.06.2017 12:31 msk Analytics Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life
For the past seven years, the number of convicts for extremism and terrorism in Kyrgyzstan has tripled. In 2009, according to the State Penitentiary Service (SSC), 51 people were convicted for such crimes, whereas today 185 people including 7 women are serving their sentences. Among this category of
29.05.2017 16:21 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Russia
In the evening on 27 May 2017 the major television channel of Kyrgyzstan aired an 8-minute report with the speaking name ‘Instigators,’ in which the Bishkek journalist Ulugbek Babakulov was accused of inciting ethnic hatred, and the website of the Fergana News Agency was called ‘biased’ and called t
25.05.2017 12:54 msk Analytics Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Migration Politics Religious life Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
The recent terror act in the St. Petersburg metro on 3 April, in the organisation of which Russian special services suspect people from Central Asia, exacerbated issues related to migration processes from the countries of this region to Russia. Last week in Moscow, the Sakharov Center jointly with t
19.05.2017 00:07 msk Analytics Business Politics Tajikistan
This April was full of spectacular action-packed detective series of dismissals and arrests of former high-ranking officials of the agency overseeing combating corruption with no precedents in modern history of Tajikistan . Many of them are relatives of high-ranking state officials.
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