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16.08.2006 13:09 msk Turkmenistan
Kakamurad Ballyev, former press secretary of the President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov, was sentenced to 17 years imprisonment. Ballyev's became the only trial in a whole series of trials of senior officials of the Turkmen state Tashkent kept under the lid. Nothing is even known about the cha
15.08.2006 21:18 msk Human Rights Russia
Russia has suspended the extradition to Uzbekistan of 13 people accused by the Uzbek authorities of terrorism in connection with the Andijan uprising in 2005, following a demand from the European Court of Human Rights, Russian prosecutors said Tuesday.
14.08.2006 13:21 msk Tajikistan
Lieutenant General Gaffor Mirzoyev, ex-commander of the Presidential Guard, drew life imprisonment. Mirzoyev, 50, was sentenced to lifetime behind the bars on August 11, two years after his arrest in 2004 that stirred all of the country. Known throughout Tajikistan as Gaffor the Grey, the general wa
11.08.2006 13:58 msk Migration
Tolib Yakubov, one of the best known Uzbek human rights activists and chairman of the semi-legal Society for Human Rights, and Abdujalil Boimatov of the Society Secretariat are currently in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan.
11.08.2006 09:19 msk Human Rights
VOA Uzbek Service quoted Vadim Makeyev of the office of the UN Supreme Commissariat for Refugees in Osh as saying that five refugees from Andijan were turned over by the Kyrgyz Prosecutor General's Office to the Uzbek authorities after all. The refugees had been in the Osh detention cell prior to th
11.08.2006 09:18 msk Tajikistan
The prominent opposition leader died not long before the presidential election scheduled for November 2006. Said Abdullo Nuri was known as one of the most prominent politicians and religious leaders in Tajikistan. The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan he was the leader of is the only legitimate Is
09.08.2006 11:54 msk Kyrgyzstan Religious life
At least 5,000 people turned up at the funeral of the prominent theologian Muhammadrafik Kamalov killed in a joint Kyrgyz-Uzbek counter-terrorism operation on August 6. The service for the dead began at Kamalov's home in Qorasuv, a city in the southern part of Kyrgyzstan, at 7 p.m. on August 7.
07.08.2006 16:55 msk Arts
GooGoosh - Gulnara Karimova Broadcasting on 40Dm frequency since 2005, Uzbek entertainment channel TV-Markaz (colloquially known as MTV) launched a promotion campaign of a number by Gulnara Karimova - the president's daughter. The flick in question concerns the famous Unutma Meni (Forget Me Never).
04.08.2006 14:09 msk Business
Uzbek tax structures arrested assets of Zeravshan-Newmont, a joint venture where 50% belong to Newmont, the second largest producer of gold in the world. INTERFAX quotes its sources as saying that "the authorities do not permit the loading of gold for transportation out of Uzbekistan. In fact, some
02.08.2006 15:16 msk Business
"The company is studying every available option that will enable it to get its money back, even including the sale of assets and appeals to international courts of arbitration," a spokesman for Newmont said. "Uzbek courts ruled in June 2006 that the joint venture owed the Uzbek state $48 million by
02.08.2006 15:02 msk Business Tajikistan
The Tajik Ministry of Energy charted a long-term program of construction of small hydroelectric power plants. Domestic and foreign investments will be used in implementation of the program. The document stipulates construction of 60 small hydroelectric power plants (totalling 77,000 kwt, expected ou
02.08.2006 10:46 msk Ferghana Valley
Uzbekistan will be celebrating another anniversary of independence a month from now, on September 1. Uzbek secret services are already tightening security in the country.
01.08.2006 11:04 msk Human Rights Russia
Memorial Human Rights Center reports that the Russian Prosecutor General's Office ordered extradition of Mamirjon Tashtemirov, a citizen of Kyrgyzstan. Arrested together with 12 citizens of Uzbekistan, Tashtemirov is to be extradited from Detention Cell No 1, Ivanovo, to Uzbekistan on the request fr
26.07.2006 12:43 msk Business
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26.07.2006 12:39 msk Business
"I wish I were anyone but a farmer," this is a general disposition in kishlaks [settlements] of the Namangan region nowadays. Farming is a dangerous pastime here. The state expects a certain wheat quota from every farmer and the state does not tolerate failure lightly. Whoever fails to meet the quot
26.07.2006 12:36 msk Business
President Islam Karimov signed Decree "On privatization of land plots under buildings belonging to organizations and individuals" on June 24, 2006.
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