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24.09.2007 12:17 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics
Experts warn that the outcome of the referendum will be questionable.
24.09.2007 11:26 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Students of six institutes and 37 colleges and lyceums of Samarkand will work cotton plantations this week.
24.09.2007 10:41 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Presidential election slated for December 23 is the talk of the day in Uzbekistan. Will Islam Karimov run for president again? How does he intend to circumvent Article 90 of the Constitution stating that one and the same person cannot be the president of the Republic of Uzbekistan more than two time
22.09.2007 14:11 msk Kyrgyzstan Religious life
Disputes over the hijab, traditional Moslem headgear, continue to torment Kyrgyz schools. They inevitably become outright heated with the onset of every school year. This time, however, the ban to wear the hijab at schools will apparently become official (principals ascribe it to the new school char
22.09.2007 10:17 msk Politics Uzbekistan
Akbar Ilham Aliyev Scientist Akbar Ilham Aliyev, 64, intends to run for president of Uzbekistan too. Aliyev became the fifth would-be candidate for president, after Jahongir Shosalimov, Ahtam Shaimardanov, Abdulla Tajiboi-ugli, and Valery Galkin. Activists of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan,
20.09.2007 12:51 msk Business Turkmenistan
President of Turkmenistan Berdymuhammedov will visit the United States in late September and meet with US State Secretary Rice. Negotiations with the Americans will be centered around gas problems. Ashkhabad contemplates inviting American investors to its national gas sector where Russia, China, and
19.09.2007 11:50 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics
President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev addressed the people and Jogorku Kenesh (national parliament) on September 19 and said, among other things, that the decree on a nationwide referendum to adopt the Constitution had been already signed. The referendum was slated for October 21, 2007.
19.09.2007 11:22 msk Business Uzbekistan
Ferghana.Ru sources in Uzbekistan report that the shortage of dough and bread is particularly dramatic in the regions. There is practically no bread to be found in the stores of Nukus, the capital of Karakalpakia. Dealers meanwhile sell a loaf of bread at local marketplaces at 300 sums (about $0.25)
19.09.2007 11:14 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
Addressing the international Cotton and Textile Conference in Tashkent on September 17, Eljer Ganiyev of the Uzbek Cabinet announced that cotton hair production in the country this year would amount to nearly 1 million tons.
19.09.2007 11:13 msk Business China
A major gold deposit with known reserves estimated at 380 tons was discovered in Vensan, the Chinese province of Gansu. According to Jenmin Jibao, this is the first deposit in the country with the known reserves in excess of 200 tons of gold.
19.09.2007 08:51 msk Politics Uzbekistan
The name of the president of Uzbekistan is known to anyone who knows at least something about what is happening in Central Asia. It is certainly different with the Uzbek prime minister whose name one would be hard pressed to remember without surfing the Net first. Can you remember it? I couldn't. Se
18.09.2007 12:05 msk Politics Uzbekistan
RIA-Novosti news agency quoted Abdusalamov, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission of Uzbekistan, that election of the president will take place on December 23.
17.09.2007 11:39 msk Kazakhstan
An incident was reported in the mosque in Duma, a residential area of Alma-Ata, on September 14. Shots were fired. A man was hospitalized with a gunshot wound, another with a head injury, Posit.Kz reported.
17.09.2007 11:34 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
Waiting for serious changes in Turkmenistan under its new President Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov, experts and commentators have been searching for and founding indications of a new course. Practically all of them decided that the reforms would be slow but irreversible and that the former system establ
17.09.2007 10:25 msk Business Kyrgyzstan
The European Commission revised its black list of air carriers whose flights to the European Union are banned, on September 11. 24.KG reports with references to Kyrgyz Weekly that all 25 Kyrgyz air carriers made the list.
17.09.2007 10:24 msk Business
Experts say that bread prices in post-Soviet Central Asia are soaring sky-high because of the dough price spiral in Kazakhstan and Russia. Bread prices in Tajikistan are already six times what they were this July. The Tajik Cabinet set up a special commission to consider the situation. No wonder, si
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