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Loaf of bread in some regions of Uzbekistan is halved

Loaf of bread in some regions of Uzbekistan is halved

06.11.2007 14:29 msk Business Uzbekistan

Ferghana.Ru has already reported flour and bread spiralling prices in Uzbekistan. Price of a kilogram of ordinary flour rose 20-37% and that of high quality flour 10-15% in September alone.

Kyrgyzstan: Ombudsman Tursunbai Bakir uulu condemns Tashkent for Alisher Saipov's assassination

Kyrgyzstan: Ombudsman Tursunbai Bakir uulu condemns Tashkent for Alisher Saipov's assassination

06.11.2007 14:11 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz Ombudsman Tursunbai Bakir uulu called a press conference in Bishkek today to pronounce once again that "official Tashkent is involved in assassination of journalist Alisher Saipov."

The Islam Karimov Gulag: Memoirs of an Uzbek prisoner

The Islam Karimov Gulag: Memoirs of an Uzbek prisoner

05.11.2007 21:21 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

The author of the autobiographical notes presented here for the attention of the public and the press is Uzbekistan national Mukhammadsolykh Abutov who served eight and a half years in Uzbekistan labour camps for his religious beliefs.

Children picking cotton. Denouncement from the Embassy of Uzbekistan in London

Children picking cotton. Denouncement from the Embassy of Uzbekistan in London

02.11.2007 14:28 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

Press Service of the Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Great Britain categorically denounces the use of children in agriculture. The denouncement became a response to the recent BBC program on the use of children in cotton picking in Uzbekistan.

Osh governor visited the family of assassinated journalist Alisher Saipov

Osh governor visited the family of assassinated journalist Alisher Saipov

02.11.2007 13:51 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan

Governor Jantoro Satybaldiyev paid a visit to the family of Alisher Saipov, journalist assassinated in Osh on October 24.

Kyrgyzstan: Doctor Life to run the election committee of the oppositionist Asaba party

Kyrgyzstan: Doctor Life to run the election committee of the oppositionist Asaba party

02.11.2007 13:49 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics

Jenishbek Nazaraliyev, narcologist known throughout Kyrgyzstan and beyond, announced his decision to join Asaba and run its election committee through the snap parliamentary election scheduled for December 16.

Moslem women in the southern part of Kyrgyzstan unite to establish non-governmental organizations

Moslem women in the southern part of Kyrgyzstan unite to establish non-governmental organizations

02.11.2007 13:48 msk Kyrgyzstan Religious life

Jamal Frontbek kyzy, leader of the Jyman Bakut Koomu community trust, claims that the growing interest in Islam compels Moslem women in the southern part of Kyrgyzstan to aspire for establishment of non-governmental organizations of their own.

Boom of medical establishments offering fee-based services in Tajikistan

Boom of medical establishments offering fee-based services in Tajikistan

02.11.2007 13:44 msk Tajikistan

A private clinic for the wealthy locals and foreigners opened in Dushanbe. It was established on the premises of the Surgery and Therapeutic Center colloquially known as Tajiev' Clinic by the name of its founder.

The Referendum in Kyrgyzstan: A Well-Played Performance

The Referendum in Kyrgyzstan: A Well-Played Performance

02.11.2007 12:08 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan

That was the question I heard most frequently while working as an observer during the October 21 referendum.

Kyrgyz society urges the president to put an end to encroachments on the freedom of expression

Kyrgyz society urges the president to put an end to encroachments on the freedom of expression

31.10.2007 14:52 msk Kyrgyzstan

Emergency forum in the capital of Kyrgyzstan on October 31 discussed the state of affairs with the freedom of speech and meetings in the country. Once the forum was over, civil activists made an appeal to President Kurmanbek Bakiyev pointing out that the processes taking place in the country were be

Wishbook with the imprint of Nursultan Nazarbayev's palm restored in Alma-Ata

Wishbook with the imprint of Nursultan Nazarbayev's palm restored in Alma-Ata

31.10.2007 14:51 msk Kazakhstan

The bronze Wishbook was installed in the center of the Republic Square in Alma-Ata, last Friday, a copy of the one that had disappeared on October 7.

Kyrgyz journalists admit to be under secret services\' tight control

Kyrgyz journalists admit to be under secret services\' tight control

31.10.2007 14:47 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz journalists began talking in the wake of Alisher Saipov's assassination of existence of the so called institute of supervision.

Kazakhstan will have to wait for OSCE chairmanship

Kazakhstan will have to wait for OSCE chairmanship

31.10.2007 14:41 msk Kazakhstan Politics

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's two-day visit to Kazakhstan ended yesterday. President Nursultan Nazarbayev received Lavrov with his Kazakh opposite number Marat Tazhin shortly before Lavrov's departure for Moscow. "We discussed implementation of the agreements concerning our cooperation in

Kyrgyz police smear the assassinated journalist's name

Kyrgyz police smear the assassinated journalist's name

31.10.2007 11:48 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan

Press Service of the Osh Municipal Internal Affairs Department announced this Tuesday that the investigation had uncovered no evidence proving Uzbek secret services' involvement in assassination of journalist Alisher Saipov a week ago. This stand on the matter - or something like that - was predicta

Are Kyrgyz security structures out to pin the blame for Alisher Saipov's assassination on Hizb-ut-Takhrir?

Are Kyrgyz security structures out to pin the blame for Alisher Saipov's assassination on Hizb-ut-Takhrir?

30.10.2007 15:03 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz official structures investigating assassination of prominent journalist Alisher Saipov remain tight-lipped on the progress made so far. Themselves reticent, they insist that the young and gifted journalist's colleagues keep their ideas and hypotheses to themselves as well.

Who ordered Alisher Saipov's assassination?

Who ordered Alisher Saipov's assassination?

29.10.2007 18:13 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan

This piece was to appear on the Ferghana.Ru web site somewhat earlier, a piece on publications by Uzbek authors under Kyrgyz aliases directed against Alisher Saipov. As things are, however, I'm writing about his physical extermination.

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