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21.02.2007 12:10 msk Kyrgyzstan Religious life
Administration of two secondary schools in the settlement of Kyzyljar (Jalalabad region of Kyrgyzstan) do not permit a group of girls to attend studies demanding that they take off the hijabs. The girls refuse to put up with the demand. Local authorities and the district directorate of public educat
21.02.2007 12:07 msk Kazakhstan
Sabit Jusupov Sabit Ye. Jusupov, analyst, sociologist, and President of the Kazakh Institute of Socioeconomic Information and Forecasts, passed away on February 20 night.
21.02.2007 10:59 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Residents of rural areas of the Bukhara region must be employed at all costs, according to Resolution No 503 signed by Hokim (the head of regional administration) Samoidin Husenov. The whole program the administrator came up with comprises two chapters and seventeen parts. Every farmer must employ v
21.02.2007 10:56 msk Business Uzbekistan
Residents of the Talas region in the northwestern part of Kyrgyzstan insist that the Jerui gold mine must be closed down. Villagers from Bekmoldo blocked the road leading to the gold mine last Saturday.
21.02.2007 09:50 msk Religious life Uzbekistan
Detained in Samarkand, Kazakh pastor Rishat Garifulin spent 11 days in custody. Anna, the missionary's wife, phoned Novye Izvestia with details of the incident. Garifulin, pastor of the Protestant Church of The Grace, was arrested for bringing religious literature to Uzbekistan. A citizen of Kazakhs
21.02.2007 09:34 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
Sources in the Bishkek office of the Directorate of the UN High Commissar for Refugees maintain that another group of refugees departed Kyrgyzstan for the United States, Canada, and Austria. Numbering 19 people, the group mostly comprises citizens of Uzbekistan who ended up in the neighbor country i
19.02.2007 11:16 msk Business Uzbekistan
UzA news agency reports with references to the Central Bank of Uzbekistan that the scope of transactions from abroad quadrupled from $225 million in 2002 to more than $1 billion last year.
16.02.2007 21:52 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
Successor to the Turkmenbashi is already keeping his promises to voters. President Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov signed the decree "On the system of education in Turkmenistan" on February 16. Secondary schools will revert to a ten-year curriculum on September 1, 2007 again (it was eight-year long under
16.02.2007 21:50 msk Business Uzbekistan
Coscom, the third largest GSM operator in Uzbekistan, is back in business after a ten-day respite, according to the Moscow newspaper RBK Daily ("Coscom Will Share With MTS and VympelKom").
16.02.2007 21:47 msk Interview Kazakhstan
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev may declare political reforms in the country come Monday, February 19. If he does, it will mean early parliamentary election in Kazakhstan later this year. Here is an interview with Jarmahan Tujakbai, former chairman of the lower house of the national par
14.02.2007 21:28 msk Interview Turkmenistan
Bairam Shikhmuradov The People's Council of Turkmenistan will name the new head of state on February 14. That Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov will be the new president is a foregone conclusion. Here is an interview with Bairam Shihmuradov, one of the leaders of the oppositionist Republican Party, on Berd
12.02.2007 13:42 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
Gurbankuly M. Berdymuhammedov's victory is no longer to be doubted. In the meantime, it is certain nuances of what is happening in post-Niyazov Turkmenistan that are particularly interesting.
12.02.2007 10:14 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
Is there life in Turkmenistan after the death of the Father of all Turkmens Saparmurat Niyazov? Answer to the question is more important than that to the question of whether or not there is life on Planet Mars. Moreover, Turkmenistan (also unlike Mars) is now in the focus of attention of its neighbo
12.02.2007 10:12 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan elected its president yesterday, for the first time in this century. The only previous such event took place in 1991 when Saparmurat Niyazov was elected the head of state. He eventually became known as Turkmenbashi the Great and passed away on December 21, 2006.
09.02.2007 19:14 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Larisa Kuznetsova, 55. Photo by Ferghana.Ru Applying for an appointment with Buritosh Mustafayev, Chairman of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan, on the visiting day January 31, six citizens of Uzbekistan never expected that it would end in so bizarre a manner. Insisting to see Mustafayev, they were dr
09.02.2007 14:25 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Turkmen voters will be electing their president the day after tomorrow. Nothing extraordinary is required or expected from them. They only have to visit their respective polling stations and underline the name of Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov in voting bulletins. (Berdymuhammedov is the man who has bee
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