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Kyrgyzstan: Will lifers ask for the return of capital punishment?

Kyrgyzstan: Will lifers ask for the return of capital punishment?

11.07.2007 11:05 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan

Capital punishment in Kyrgyzstan was abolished on June 25, 2007, when President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed the appropriate law. Liberalization of penal legislation seems to be finally under way but some human rights activists who have longed for it remain skeptical while others say that lifers' positi

Russian companies in Uzbekistan encounter serious problems with local monetary unit conversion

Russian companies in Uzbekistan encounter serious problems with local monetary unit conversion

10.07.2007 14:41 msk Business Uzbekistan

The independent Tashkent-based Uzmetronom laid its hands on a document that indicates existence of complicated economic relations between Russia and Uzbekistan and questions the popular myth concerning the dynamic and rapidly evolving interaction between our countries promoted by state officials in

Gas pipeline from Central Asia to China may be built across Kyrgyzstan

Gas pipeline from Central Asia to China may be built across Kyrgyzstan

09.07.2007 18:35 msk Business Kyrgyzstan

Press service of the government of Kyrgyzstan reports that Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev met with foreign minister of China and asked for Beijing's support in mutually beneficial projects like construction of a railroad between China and Uzbekistan via Kyrgyzstan that was to become a part of the

Second Bravo Art Café opened in the Ferghana Valley. This one in the city of Osh

Second Bravo Art Café opened in the Ferghana Valley. This one in the city of Osh

09.07.2007 12:52 msk Arts Kyrgyzstan

Bravo's regularly updated gallery available at Picasaweb.google.com

Young travellers and regional ethnographers were taught to promote national ideas

Young travellers and regional ethnographers were taught to promote national ideas

09.07.2007 12:27 msk Politics Uzbekistan

UzA national news agency reports that a republican seminar "Higher effectiveness of propaganda of national ideas" took place at the Samarkand Regional Center of Young Travellers and Regional Ethnographers. The event was attended by young travellers from Karakalpakstan, Tashkent, and other regions of

School teachers are forced to transact part of their salaries to bank cards

School teachers are forced to transact part of their salaries to bank cards

09.07.2007 12:26 msk Business Uzbekistan

Bank services are forced on Samarkand teachers compelled to transact a tenth part of their monthly salaries to bank cards as of April 2007. In fact, they are actually paid nine tenths of their salaries and the rest goes to banks directly.

Turkmen TV dropped the logo of the golden profile of the late president

Turkmen TV dropped the logo of the golden profile of the late president

09.07.2007 12:25 msk Turkmenistan

Last Friday, Turkmen TV audience watched broadcasts without the logo of the golden profile of the Turkmenbashi mandatory until then at all four nationwide channels. It is another step within the framework of the policy of President Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov who seems intent to do away with Saparmur

Nukus Museum: Storeroom of arts in the epicenter of trouble

Nukus Museum: Storeroom of arts in the epicenter of trouble

09.07.2007 10:26 msk Arts Uzbekistan

Nukus, Karakalpakstan. - Schindler in the field of paintings, Igor Savitsky preserved banned masterpieces in the destitute backwaters of the Soviet empire.

New prison for civil servants was built in Tashkent

New prison for civil servants was built in Tashkent

09.07.2007 10:22 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

Press Center of the Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Activists (Uzbekistan) reports with references to sources in the republican Interior Ministry that a new colony for convicted civil servants was built in the Yunus-Abad district of Tashkent (Gvardeiskaya mahallja).

President Nursultan Nazarbayev is the head of the Nur Otan party

President Nursultan Nazarbayev is the head of the Nur Otan party

04.07.2007 11:08 msk Kazakhstan Politics

President Nursultan Nazarbayev is the head of the Nur Otan People's Democratic Party.

Russian broadcasts are resumed in the Andijan region of Uzbekistan

Russian broadcasts are resumed in the Andijan region of Uzbekistan

04.07.2007 09:59 msk Ferghana Valley Uzbekistan

Local correspondents report that TV stations in the Andijan region of Uzbekistan resume broadcasts for Russian-speakers.

President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai will visit Turkmenistan

President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai will visit Turkmenistan

04.07.2007 09:57 msk Afghanistan Business

President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai will visit Turkmenistan later this week. Karzai and his host, President Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov, will discuss the trans-Afghan gas pipeline project.

Central Asia: Integration discourse continues

Central Asia: Integration discourse continues

03.07.2007 22:52 msk Interview Tajikistan

Orientalist Vladimir Plastun is Professor of the Department of Oriental Studies of the Novosibirsk State University. He spent over two decades in Iran, Afghanistan, India and published over 300 papers on sociopolitical events in the region (Iran, Afghanistan, India, and their neighbors). Several yea

President of Uzbekistan ordered all Afghani starlings exterminated

President of Uzbekistan ordered all Afghani starlings exterminated

03.07.2007 16:06 msk Ferghana Valley Uzbekistan

Touring the regions, President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov never misses a chance to give instructions and issue orders to the local authorities and citizenry. One of the orders given on the latest tour specified extermination of Afghani starlings.

The new immigration control measures: who stands to benefit?

The new immigration control measures: who stands to benefit?

02.07.2007 20:42 msk Migration Uzbekistan

Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers "On record keeping concerning citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan employed abroad" was adopted in Uzbekistan in the middle of May 2007. Problems of labor immigration are in the focus of interest in Uzbekistan because labor immigration is a distinct prospect

Islamic movement leader Yuldashev's right-hand men arrested in the northern part of Afghanistan

Islamic movement leader Yuldashev's right-hand men arrested in the northern part of Afghanistan

02.07.2007 10:46 msk Afghanistan

Afghani National Security Directorate reported arrests of Kari Abdul Kadir and Kari Hekmatulla in the northern part of the country. Right-hand men of Tahir Yuldashev, leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Kadir and Hekmatulla are from the province of Farjab. Both were trained in Kvetta, Paki

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