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17.04.2017 22:33 msk Analytics Human Rights Interview Politics Religious life Tajikistan
Last month, Shohin Talbakzoda, a representative of the Prosecutor General’s office, expressed his concern over the fact that international organisations, European nations and even CSTO member-countries have not yet included the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) and Group 24 into so-called “
15.04.2017 10:03 msk Human Rights Migration Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
A reporter of Fergana was able to visit a mahalla (neighbourhood) in Samarkand where the relatives of Rakhmat Akilov live. Swedish police arrested Mr Akilov as the main suspect of a terrorist act in Stockholm early April.
14.04.2017 17:11 msk Analytics Kazakhstan Politics Russia
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed to quickly—until the end of this year that is—to draft a project of the Latin script-based Kazakh alphabet. Fergana Chief Editor Daniil Kislov shares his thoughts on positives and negatives of introducing said novelty in Kazakhstan.
13.04.2017 16:42 msk
Aleksandr Bortnikov Labour migrants from the Commonwealth of Independent States are the basis of terrorist groups in Russia, Aleksandr Bortnikov, the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and National Anti-terrorism Committee (NAC) of Russia , has said on April 11.
11.04.2017 14:01 msk Analytics Business Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
The original article in Russian is here . Thanslated into English by openDemocracyRussia .
13.03.2017 10:43 msk Human Rights Kazakhstan Politics
It seems like everything in authoritarian countries has been created and established to materialise the phantasies of George Orwell and Franz Kafka. At that, sheer number of various prohibitions and laws far exceeds the number of such countries, causing disbelief in normal and healthy societies. Som
10.03.2017 11:17 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Representatives of the US embassy and a number of international organisations were allowed to visit Yelena Urlayeva, the chairman of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan (HRAU), in her hospital room. However, there is no clarity as to justifications for subjecting her to forced psychiatric treatm
02.03.2017 19:26 msk Human Rights Religious life Tajikistan
The situation around satr , a locally used term for hijab , or headscarf, is becoming ever more controversial in Tajikistan. Only a few years the Tajik society was rather tolerant toward satr with the male part of it encouraging women to wear Islamic attire. But lately, mostly thanks to the Tajik au
16.02.2017 22:32 msk Business Human Rights Uzbekistan
Things are going from bad to worse for Uzbekistan’s anticorruption whistleblower with a court ordering his confinement to a pretrial detention facility pending criminal hearings into corruption.
13.02.2017 00:02 msk Business Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Early February 2017, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree “On continued improvement of the institution of mahalla.”
31.01.2017 09:21 msk Afghanistan Central Asia Human Rights Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Migration Politics Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Uzbekistan
Neo-patrimonial regimes have been established in Central Asian countries following the implosion of the Soviet Union. The new elites divided entire economies and “sweet-spot” government positions between “bosses” and their “vassals.” Meanwhile, the rest of the society, who are excluded from such net
26.01.2017 12:14 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
Such scribbles could be seen almost all over Southern Kyrgyzstan in the summer of 2010—residents called for help and protection from pogroms
24.01.2017 22:54 msk Analytics Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics
Early on January 24, a verdict was issued in the case of Azimjan Askarov , an ethnic Uzbek, journalist and human rights advocate, who was arrested during the bloody events in Southern Kyrgyzstan in June 2010. Mr Askarov was accused of organising mass disorders and killing of a police officer. Appell
20.01.2017 15:09 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia Politics Tajikistan
Politicians and experts have long been expressing concerns regarding the situation on the Afghan side of the border near Tajikistan . The length of the border the two countries share is 1,344km, of which 920km are the Gorno-Badakhshan section while the remaining over 424km are the Khatlon Region of
18.01.2017 10:09 msk Analytics Business Central Asia Cotton Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
The Harvard International Review 's January 2017 edition includes an academic article on problems with water supply in Central Asia. The article author Alisher Ilkhamov is Alisher Ilkhamov is a Research Associate at the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus at the School of Oriental and
16.01.2017 13:20 msk Business Central Asia China Ferghana Valley Interview Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan
“Chinese and Uzbek archaeologists rewrite the history of an ancient city.” China’s Xinhua news agency carried a report under this title on January 11, 2017, which cites a forum on archaeology of the Academy of Public Sciences of China. According to the report, a group of archaeologists from China an
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