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09.04.2007 10:48 msk Afghanistan
An anonymous representative of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan phoned Ferghana.Ru presumably from the Southern Waziristan to pronounce Amir Muhammad Tahir Farouq (that's how Movement leader Tahir Yuldashev is known) alive. The recent reports concerning his arrest and death were false, the man sai
09.04.2007 10:44 msk Business Kazakhstan
Rates of growth and levels of developments in the meantime vary from country to country. Kazakh banks did the best and reached the level typical of the most advanced countries of the world (in the context of the national economy, of course). Russian banks remain at the average CIS level.
04.04.2007 22:04 msk Religious life
New Religious Movements (NRMs) are peculiar social phenomena. It is very easy to become confused when trying to attribute that phenomenon to one or another field of science: sociology, history, theology or political science. Actually, it is a cross-disciplinary issue, which allows one to use analyti
04.04.2007 11:08 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Every journalist in Uzbekistan working for a foreign media outlet will end up in jail sooner or later - just for the temerity of speaking or writing the truth. Needless to say, official charges will have nothing to do with journalism as such. The Uzbek Criminal Code offers a broad assortment of othe
04.04.2007 11:06 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Sherzod Kudratkhojayev, Press Secretary of the Uzbek premier, arranged a meeting with correspondents of the leading periodicals on April 2.
02.04.2007 20:50 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan celebrated "Drop of Water Like a Nugget", a holiday established by the late Turkmenbashi. Saparmurat Niyazov had ordered it celebrated on the first Sunday of April (this year, it took place simultaneously with the All Fool's Day).
02.04.2007 11:54 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan
As far as the southern part of Kyrgyzstan is concerned, late March and early April this year are like early March 2005. The situation now is different from what it was like at the onset of the Tulip Revolution two years ago of course, but certain resemblance is nevertheless undeniable. The oppositio
02.04.2007 11:51 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan
Roza Otunbayeva. Photo by Ferghana.Ru Visit Ferghana.Ru Gallery for other photos of politicians of Central Asian countries Roza Otunbayeva, the politician ex-president Askar Akayev called "locomotive force of the opposition" two years ago, met with Osh journalists. Otunbayeva is coordinator of the n
02.04.2007 11:47 msk Religious life Uzbekistan
Press Center of the Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Activists reports that seven women are facing trial in Tashkent on charges of Hizb-ut-Takhrir membership.
02.04.2007 11:46 msk Russia
A fight between Kazakh and Chechen students of the University of Oil and Gas named after Gubkin was reported in the campus on Butlerov Street in Moscow on March 31.
30.03.2007 15:52 msk Tajikistan
More than 277,000 square meters of territory in Tajikistan were swept of landmines in 2006. Rajabov, Chief of the Tajik Government Center for Landmines, refuses to call it a day though as long as people keep dying in explosions. Russian bomb squads were helping Tajikistan with mine-sweeping only rec
30.03.2007 15:50 msk Politics Turkmenistan
President Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov was elected the head of the People's Council (Halk Maslahaty), the supreme legislative body in Turkmenistan.
28.03.2007 10:54 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan
The second anniversary of the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan was fouled up - at least in its cradle, the city of Jalalabad. It had been in Jalalabad, a city in the Kyrgyz part of the Ferghana Valley, that the chain of events started to eventually topple Askar Akayev's regime.
28.03.2007 10:51 msk Business Turkmenistan
Construction of a network of high-voltage lines is under way on the right-hand bank of the Amudarja, the area of the future pipeline from Turkmenistan to China. Project cost is estimated at over $27 million, Turkmenenergostoi is the contractor. The oil and gas accord President Saparmurat Niyazov and
28.03.2007 10:50 msk Religious life Tajikistan
The Municipal Court of Hujand (Sogdi region of Tajikistan) sentenced a juvenile member of outlawed Hizb-ut-Takhrir to eight years behind the bars.
27.03.2007 13:43 msk Kazakhstan Politics
Kasymjomart Tokayev, chairman of the upper house of the parliament of Kazakhstan, said addressing the Kokchetav regional maslihat or legislature that the national Constitution would be amended in 2008.
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