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04.05.2007 21:23 msk Business Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan intends to amplify gas transit across its territory to the amount equal to 50% of all Central Asian gas produce. Chinese rapidly growing economy is to become the principal buyer.
04.05.2007 21:22 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
Louise Arbour, UN Supreme Commissar for Human Rights, is visiting Turkmenistan within the framework of her fact-finding tour of Central Asian countries. President Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov received the UN executive on May 3.
04.05.2007 21:19 msk Business Turkmenistan
A powerful commercial inflow of gas is reported from Well 102 in South Iolotan in the Mary region of Turkmenistan. The target well depth is estimated at 4,500 meters but the productive interval was discovered at the depth of 4,360 meters. It confirms Turkmen scientists' forecasts of the still undisc
03.05.2007 13:10 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The trial of Umida Niyazova, 32, lasted only two days and ended on may 1. Judge Nizom Rustamov sentenced Niyazova, a human rights activist and journalist, to seven years imprisonment in a colony.
02.05.2007 11:36 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
It was mostly Kyrgyzes - and mostly from the northern regions of the country at that - who participated in the opposition rallies in Bishkek between April 11 and 19. Why were representatives of other ethnic groups absent? (Not one report in the media mentioned their presence.) Are they completely in
02.05.2007 11:16 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics
Web site of the United Social Democratic Party of Kazakhstan reports that a roundtable conference took place in Strasbourg on April 25. The European Parliament discussed the constitutional reforms in Kazakhstan. Representatives of democratic parties and social action organizations from Kazakhstan, d
02.05.2007 11:15 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The Department of Visas and Registrations of the Yakkasarai district of Tashkent denies the exit visa to Alo Hojayev, former chief editor of the newspaper Tashkentskaya Pravda who is currently associated with the web site Tribune-uz.
01.05.2007 17:47 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
A court in Tashkent sentenced independent journalist Umida Niyazova to seven years in prison today. Prosecutors had asked the court for an eight-year term. Umida Niyazova was found guilty of illegal border crossing, carrying contraband, and fostering unrest with the help of foreign funding. Niyazova
28.04.2007 17:47 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
A stranger or foreigner in Uzbekistan will be hard pressed to tell what script in this country is official. All street signs from billboards to posters to signboards to road signs offer a staggering hodgepodge of languages and alphabetic notations. This period of an utterly unrestricted use of langu
28.04.2007 11:21 msk Business Kazakhstan
Baker Hughes, an American company providing services in the oil and gas industry, confessed having bribed Kazakh state officials. According to the information compiled and released by SEC, Baker Hughes paid some Kazakhoil executives $4.1 million via a go-between to ensure its victory in the contest
28.04.2007 10:42 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics
Tension in Kyrgyzstan, quite considerable to begin with, somewhat abated last night. Former interior minister Omurbek Suvanaliyev and Omurbek Abdrahmanov, prominent members of the opposition United Front headed by ex-premier Felix Kulov, were released from the detention cell of the State Committee o
28.04.2007 10:01 msk Business China
China Petroleum Technology & Development Corporation (subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp. or CNCP) and Sinomach are expected to deliver drilling rigs worth $203 million to Uzbekistan by 2009. Sinomach alone will additionally provide $6.1 million worth of special equipment.
27.04.2007 22:16 msk Interview Kazakhstan
Jamarhan Tujakbai "I'm convinced that the next president of Kazakhstan will wield lesser power. As a matter of fact, the current head of state may make this decision with regard to whoever will come to replace him. The very logic of the authoritarian regime prompts him to try and remain the one and
27.04.2007 21:55 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz Justice Ministry drafted a law under whose terms a citizen of Kyrgyzstan whose life or property are in jeopardy may shoot the criminal in self-defense and be assured of his or her immunity even though the assailant died.
27.04.2007 20:40 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics
Felix Kulov, leader of the United Front For The Worthy Future, met with journalists on April 27 to discuss the situation that had taken shape after the opposition rally earlier this month.
27.04.2007 14:04 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Gubalhor Turayeva, a prominent human rights activist from the Andijan region, was sentenced to six years imprisonment by the regional court on April 24.
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