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22.01.2007 09:04 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
Marina Ivanova, the widow of Alexander Ivanov shot by AF Base Gansi personnel, sued the US Administration for an indemnity, said a prominent lawyer who would represent her family in court.
22.01.2007 09:04 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Leadership of Turkmenistan does not have any objections to foreign observers' presence in the country in the course of election of the president. OSCE observers are expected in Turkmenistan. "We expect representatives of other international organizations as well," taciturn Foreign Minister Rashid Me
19.01.2007 16:25 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
Turkmen human rights activists claim that 23 prisoners were executed in Ovadan-Depe. Republican Interior Ministry denounces the reports as false.
19.01.2007 11:58 msk Business China
The accord on construction of the Zeravshan (Yava) Hydroelectric Power Plant in northern Tajikistan was signed in Beijing on January 17.
17.01.2007 10:15 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Ferghana.Ru correspondents report the arrest of Gulbahor Turayeva, human rights activist from Andijan, at Checkpoint Dustlik on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border on January 14.
16.01.2007 18:22 msk Tajikistan
Tajikistan Prosecutor General Bobojon Bobohonov said at his press conference on January 15 that 11,223 crimes had been logged in the republic in 2006.
16.01.2007 18:20 msk Human Rights Russia
Moscow-based Vremya Novostei reports that President Vladimir Putin met with the Council for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights.
15.01.2007 13:04 msk Business Uzbekistan
Channel One of the Russian television is once again available without satellite dishes in the mining town of Angren in the south of the Tashkent region. Russian-speaking population of Angren has numbered thousands since the Soviet era. Mines are closed these days, sending the unemployment soaring an
15.01.2007 13:01 msk Kyrgyzstan Religious life
Murataly Jumanov of the Moslem Religious Directorate told Osh-TV on January 14 that the 22 pilgrims from Kyrgyzstan killed in a traffic accident last week were proclaimed shahids. They will be interred in Saudi Arabia, Jumanov said.
15.01.2007 12:56 msk Kazakhstan Politics
Attention of all of Kazakhstan was glued to the unprecedented staff shuffles in the upper echelons of state power last week. Nursultan Nazarbayev had key ministers change places and replaced leadership of the upper house of the parliament. Nurtai Abykayev, a political heavyweight, stepped down as ch
15.01.2007 09:30 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Population of the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan keeps up protests against deterioration of living standards. Information on protest actions, however, is kept under the lid until much later.
12.01.2007 20:24 msk Interview Uzbekistan
Radical changes are under way in Uzbek agriculture. Large agricultural companies that replaced collective farms of the Soviet past are being divided into small farms on orders from the national leadership. Supervised by the state and hurried along by the administrative apparat, the process is actual
12.01.2007 20:16 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan
Kadyrjan Batyrov. Photo by Ferghana.Ru Initially promoters of the parliamentary rule in the country, leaders of the Uzbek community of Kyrgyzstan changed their mind not long ago. They now stand for the mixed form of rule where the power balance between the president and the parliament is maintained.
12.01.2007 20:09 msk Tajikistan
On January 10, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmonov signed a decree establishing Agency for Financial Control and War on Corruption.
12.01.2007 14:31 msk Afghanistan
Officers of the Tajik Drug Enforcement Agency and their Afghani colleagues ran nine special operations in Afghanistan in 2006 and confiscated nearly a ton of drugs including 313 kg of pure heroin.
12.01.2007 14:25 msk Russia
Vladimir Nalivkin Click here to read "Natives, Before And Now" by V. P. Nalivkin (in Russian) A truly unique essay by Vladimir Petrovich Nalivkin, a prominent Russian scientist and authority on the life of Central Asian peoples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is the centerpiece of "Moslem
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