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Authorities throw a family from its home to indulge the president

Authorities throw a family from its home to indulge the president

29.08.2007 12:27 msk Politics Uzbekistan

"President Islam Karimov took a look at the latest accomplishments in the capital," UzA news agency reported on August 28. The head of state examined the new, short and convenient, road connecting the Yunusabad and Mirzo-Ulugbek districts of Tashkent and the bridge there.

Abolition of the visa regime between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan revived the Shahimardan enclave (photo)

Abolition of the visa regime between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan revived the Shahimardan enclave (photo)

29.08.2007 12:07 msk Ferghana Valley Uzbekistan

Photo by Ferghana.Ru. Lake Kurban-Kul photos are available in Gallery-II

Uzbekistan: bread prices go up and shortage of vegetable oil reported

Uzbekistan: bread prices go up and shortage of vegetable oil reported

29.08.2007 12:01 msk Business Uzbekistan

Bread is all for the majority of families in Uzbekistan. Hearing statements about "grain independence" of the country, the population encounters shortage of dough and prices it can barely afford. Whoever in Tashkent fails to buy bread in the morning finds buying it in the afternoon a trying task ind

Transfer of the capital from Bishkek to Osh suggested again

Transfer of the capital from Bishkek to Osh suggested again

29.08.2007 11:57 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan

Murat Jurayev, deputy of the Jogorku Kenesh of parliament, intends to have the nearest session discuss transfer of the capital from Bishkek to Osh in the southern part of Kyrgyzstan.

Kazakhstan: Parties of the opposition demand another election

Kazakhstan: Parties of the opposition demand another election

29.08.2007 11:56 msk Kazakhstan Politics

Several political parties of Kazakhstan came up with an open letter to President Nursultan Nazarbayev on August 28.

Turkmenistan: the amnestied mufti offered a job with the presidential Council for Religious Affairs

Turkmenistan: the amnestied mufti offered a job with the presidential Council for Religious Affairs

27.08.2007 10:44 msk Religious life Turkmenistan

Speaking on Turkmen television on August 13, ex-mufti Nasrullah ibn Ibadullah released from imprisonment only recently said he had been offered a job with the presidential Council for Religious Affairs. Ibn Ibadullah had been its assistant chairman in 2002 and 2003.

Uzbek industry is short of qualified personnel

Uzbek industry is short of qualified personnel

27.08.2007 09:38 msk Business Uzbekistan

Preparations for celebration of Mustakilik take place in the Ferghana Valley the way they do all over Uzbekistan. The republican economy in the meantime is in need of specialists. The problem of checking their immigration into Russia and distant foreign countries remains pressing on the sixteenth an

Ajdar Kurtov: Expulsion of the opposition: abridged history

Ajdar Kurtov: Expulsion of the opposition: abridged history

27.08.2007 09:34 msk Analytics Kazakhstan

Nur Otan's total victory in the snap election of the Majilis (lower house of the parliament of Kazakhstan) on August 18 completed expulsion of the opposition from the national legislature. Ajdar Kurtov, an analyst with Asia Analysis Foundation, believes that the status quo was quite predictable and,

The US Department of State comments on serious shortcomings of the Kazakh election

The US Department of State comments on serious shortcomings of the Kazakh election

23.08.2007 11:28 msk Kazakhstan Politics

The US is highly critical of the snap parliamentary election in Kazakhstan last Saturday won by the pro-presidential Nur Otan party. Unlike the OSCE, official Washington condemns the electoral system of Kazakhstan rather than the course of the election.

Henry Platter-Zyberk: Viewing the Shanghai Organization of Cooperation as a rival of NATO is a mistake

Henry Platter-Zyberk: Viewing the Shanghai Organization of Cooperation as a rival of NATO is a mistake

15.08.2007 16:13 msk Interview

Ferghana.Ru correspondent met with Henry Plater-Zyberk, senior analyst of the British Academy of Defense and specialist in Russia and Central Asia, on the eve of the summit of the Shanghai Organization of Cooperation in Bishkek.

Natalia Bushuyeva: I did my best to work as if there were no censorship in Uzbekistan

Natalia Bushuyeva: I did my best to work as if there were no censorship in Uzbekistan

13.08.2007 22:32 msk Interview Uzbekistan

Natalia Bushuyeva was one of the few journalists with the courage to remain in Uzbekistan and make truthful reports on life in this country. The frustrated authorities eventually grew sufficiently enraged with the journalist to press criminal charges against her. Bushuyeva was compelled to flee Uzbe

Bairam Shihmuradov: As long as Berdymuhammedov does not stop at it

Bairam Shihmuradov: As long as Berdymuhammedov does not stop at it

13.08.2007 10:01 msk Interview Turkmenistan

The process is under way. The news that eleven men were released in Turkmenistan (very many of them imprisoned in connection with the so called 25 Sanjar or November 25 episode) indicates that the new administration has finally launched the process of revision of the stiff sentences to whoever had t

Pop songs as a formidable ideological weapon

Pop songs as a formidable ideological weapon

10.08.2007 21:17 msk Arts Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan will be celebrating another anniversary of its sovereignty on September 1. Ideological preparations for the celebration are getting into high gear. National TV network run special caption reminders on the hourly basis. Patriotic songs, an element of the repertoire of every more or less pr

Shortage of water may compel Kyrgyzstan to suspend electric power export in 2008

Shortage of water may compel Kyrgyzstan to suspend electric power export in 2008

10.08.2007 19:20 msk Business Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz synopticians predict that the flow into the largest artificial water reservoir in the republic will be well below what it was in 2006 (13.6 against 16.7 billion cubic meters).

Eleven would-be assassins of the Turkmenbashi amnestied

Eleven would-be assassins of the Turkmenbashi amnestied

10.08.2007 19:20 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan

President of Turkmenistan Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov signed a decree amnestying eleven prisoners at the enlarged meeting of the Cabinet on August 9. One of the prisoners to be released is Nasrullah ibn Ibadullah, ex-mufti of Turkmenistan tried and sentenced for attempt on the life of the late Presid

Uzbekistan: Andijan regional TV latinized the Russian language

Uzbekistan: Andijan regional TV latinized the Russian language

08.08.2007 11:31 msk Ferghana Valley Uzbekistan

Andijan regional TV converted Andijan Ahboroti, news program, into the Russian language again. Anchors are ethnic Uzbeks speaking fluent Russian, the news reported are strictly local.

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