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07.12.2006 17:25 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan
The two-day seminar in the city of Osh (it ended on December 6) became the first step to improvement of conditions in Kyrgyz jails and detention cells.
07.12.2006 17:23 msk Turkmenistan
The 14th Contest within the framework of FSA/FLEX (Freedom Support Act) program of the US Department of State begins in Turkmenistan this month.
07.12.2006 17:21 msk Business Kazakhstan
Rights of Kazakh menial workers are grossly abused and encroached on. This state of affairs resulted in a mass fight between Turkish and Kazakh employees of the Tengiz mine not long ago. NRS reports in the meantime that Chinese employers mistreat the locals too.
06.12.2006 13:52 msk Afghanistan Analytics
International Conference "Afghanistan and regional security: 5 years after the Taliban" will take place in Dushanbe on December 11-12. It is to be organized by the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Tajik Academy of Sciences, Alexander Knyazev's Public Foundation, and Dushanbe-based Center of Conf
06.12.2006 13:50 msk Afghanistan Arts
A team of ethnographers set out from St.Petersburg for Kabul on an invitation from the government of Afghanistan, yesterday. "We are after artefacts of the Afghani culture and Eurasian civilization in general," expedition leader Alexander Stepanov said. "The first road from Europe to India ran acros
06.12.2006 13:48 msk Migration Russia
Ferghana.Ru photo History of this Tajik family in Russia began 7 years ago when the four brothers first came to the Volgograd region and rented a plot of land. Everyone who knows them calls them hardworking men indeed. Back at home, the brothers handled fields of cotton in the vicinity Dushanbe and
06.12.2006 13:44 msk Kazakhstan Politics
Nobody knows what country will chair the OSCE in 2009. Annual meeting of foreign ministers representing all 56 member states that ended in Brussels yesterday failed to come to an agreement. Kazakhstan aspired for the privilege, but... The OSCE voted to table the matter. The decision will be made at
05.12.2006 18:45 msk Business Uzbekistan
Zeromax GmbH, one of the largest private companies in Uzbekistan that bought 16% of the British Oxus Gold stock, may help the Uzbek-British joint venture Amantaitau Goldfields with tax problems. (Oxus Gold owns 50% of Amantaitau Goldfields.)
04.12.2006 13:33 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan
Expanded meeting of the Council of the Uzbek Center of National Culture of Kyrgyzstan in Osh on December 2 voted to make another appeal to President Kurmanbek Bakiyev concerning Oibek Alimjanov's assassination.
04.12.2006 13:29 msk Kazakhstan Politics
Two-day session of the OSCE Council of Foreign Ministers opening in Brussels today is supposed to decide what country to choose for the chairman in 2009. Diplomatic sources claim, however, that the session will come up with no decision - because of Kazakhstan, one of the claimants for the privilege,
04.12.2006 13:28 msk Turkmenistan
The TU-154 with the Czech military delegation was returning from Afghanistan where several dozens servicemen of the Czech national army participate in the NATO peacekeeping mission. The plane needed a stopover in Ashkhabad, the capital of Turkmenistan, for refuelling. The Czechs even had a special p
01.12.2006 13:53 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The mother of Georgy Alexandrov. Photo by Ferghana.Ru Two practically unrelated events took place in Uzbekistan on May 13, 2005. An armed rebellion was brutally crushed in Andijan. Israeli Embassy security in Tashkent shot an innocent passer-by who looked suspicious to them. What amounts to banal mu
30.11.2006 17:57 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
As Ferghana.Ru has already reported, Uzbek journalist Ruslan Sharipov is a political immigrant living in the United States. Much to his surprise, Sharipov encountered problems in this country. The US Immigration Service cannot (or wouldn't) legalize the Uzbek dissenter.
30.11.2006 17:53 msk Religious life Uzbekistan
While official Tashkent is telling everyone within earshot how nobody in Uzbekistan encroaches on the believers' rights, local authorities in the southern part of the country impose restrictions on religious life. Some restrictions were imposed by Ahmajan Usmonov, Andijan Hokim or Governor for just
30.11.2006 17:51 msk Politics Russia
The first meeting of NATO leaders on the post-Soviet territory, the NATO summit that ended in Riga yesterday was the talk of the day for Russian and foreign experts. For the first time in the last fifteen years when NATO openly called Russia an enemy and proclaimed control over Russian energy resour
29.11.2006 11:28 msk Ferghana Valley Uzbekistan
Uzbek and Kyrgyz topographers demarcating the state border between the two countries met in Andijan.
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