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09.07.2008 10:45 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Last week, Kenneth Roth, the executive director of the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch, visited Tashkent. The purpose of the HRW head’s visit was to conduct talks with Uzbek authorities about the possibility of accreditation for the organization’s new representative in Uzb
08.07.2008 21:13 msk Analytics Kazakhstan
Even as ceremonies launched the Koksaray water reservoir construction on June 25, controversy continues about the possible environmental impact of the project. The reservoir, to be built in southern Kazakhstan, will offer control over the flow of the Syrdarya River. Opponents fear that the major riv
08.07.2008 10:56 msk Interview Uzbekistan
Professor Bekdjan Oibekovich Tashmukhammedov is the head of the Physics of Membranes Laboratory at the Institute of Physiology and Biophysics of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences. Chairman of the MAB UNESCO National Committee, Professor Tashmukhammedov actively promotes radically sophisticated solutions
05.07.2008 15:37 msk Cotton Kazakhstan
As soil in the Kazakh southern region continues to deteriorate due to the widespread uncontrolled growth of cotton and the effect of the region’s hot weather in reducing available water, Kazakh cotton farmers face a serious dilemma as they must choose to either find new methods to grown cotton, a cr
04.07.2008 13:06 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
A former employee of the capital's Tashkent prison administration, known in Russian as GUIN, has lost almost everything – her house, her health and, recently, her job – all due to her appalling mistreatment by the prison administration, she claims.
03.07.2008 22:29 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
Aitibai Tagayev, until recently a wholly obscure lawmaker, succeeded Adakhan Madumarov as chairman of the Jogorku Kenesh , the national parliament of Kyrgyzstan, when the latter resigned in what was considered a thoroughly scandalous manner. Quite a bit of interest in the new Jogorku Kenesh chairman
02.07.2008 12:16 msk Afghanistan Interview
Experts admit to being baffled by what is happening today in Afghanistan. Many militias and clans are battling with each other, foreign military contingents are spread throughout the country, the economy is thoroughly crime-ridden, and other factors contribute to a very complicated scenario. Also, a
30.06.2008 22:50 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Currently, Uzbekistan’s ratio of 90 students per 10,000 citizens is considered quite low. At the same time, the ratio in Kyrgyzstan is 410; 572 in Taiwan; and 322 in Canada. Children and juveniles under 18 years make up almost 40% of the Uzbek population. Further, only about 10% of high school gradu
30.06.2008 20:48 msk Uzbekistan
These days, cattle are grazing in the streets of the Uzbek capital. Like Kyrgyz cattle breeders who drive their stock to the jailoo or mountainous pastures, their Tashkent colleagues have cattle outdoors – virtually everywhere except in some central areas of Tashkent. Cows and sheep methodically dev
30.06.2008 12:39 msk Kazakhstan
As Ferghana.ru previously reported, on July 6, 2008 the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, will present an international gala to celebrate its birthday. Authorities began preparations in the beginning of the year by inviting foreign guests, including important personalities and statesmen including Mosco
27.06.2008 14:22 msk Central Asia Interview
Fabrizio Vielmini, North Italian journalist and political scientist, was one of the participants in the international conference, "Afghanistan, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Central Eurasian Security and Geopolitics" that took place on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan on June 11-12. A
27.06.2008 10:07 msk Uzbekistan
She could have become a successful designer, pop star or poet – but these are just her hobbies. “Her destiny and character have become as large a range of colors as Uzbek’s ornament has.” “She has enormous plans - conferences, meetinsg with foreign colleagues, contests, festivals, the launch of a ne
25.06.2008 18:44 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
A review of food supplies in Kyrgyzstan paints a troubled picture. Kyrgyz farmers have repeatedly been unable to sow wheat in the quantities the country needs. Sources in the Ministry of Agriculture told Ferghana.Ru that the program to assure the security of the nation’s food supplies has not been s
24.06.2008 10:58 msk Interview Uzbekistan
In order to jail this woman, a lot of people were needed: the police, the SNB ( Slujba natsional’noy bezopasnosti – National Security Service, the successor of the Soviet KGB), representatives from the Presidential administration, prosecutors and judges. During the trial sessions the entire city of
22.06.2008 17:21 msk Afghanistan Interview
Valery N. Ivanov is a valid State Councilor of Russian Federation of the third rank (retired). At present he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Russian-Afghan Business Council. V.Ivanov had been working at different times at different posts in Afghanistan, 22 years altogether, as a transla
19.06.2008 15:57 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
An international campaign continues to protest Uzbekistan’s censorship of internet websites.
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