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24.07.2006 14:17 msk Ferghana Valley
Slave-trade. The term is usually associated with some distant exotic country where people are sold to plantations, construction sites, or bordellos. In the meantime, some countries of the Commonwealth are not exactly unacquainted with this phenomenon nowadays, and Kyrgyzstan is one of them.
24.07.2006 14:16 msk Turkmenistan
The Turkmenbashi is out to do away with the sick and the unfit. What does the prosperous Turkmenistan need them for? Hence the order to make no more purchases of medicines from CIS countries.
21.07.2006 08:27 msk Business
Uzbek newspapers published a list of companies with foreign capitals no longer entitled to tax preferences. The Cabinet passed a special resolution on that score on July 7.
19.07.2006 17:26 msk Migration
Sitting at a street cafe, we sip a weak beer (some local brand) and watch pretty blondes cycling by.
19.07.2006 17:09 msk Migration
In early spring, four young men from the Samarkand region decided to travel to Russia to earn their families' living. They had heard somewhere that there were special coaches running to Russia, raised the sum they were told would suffice to pay their fare, and turned up at the bus stop.
17.07.2006 15:32 msk Ferghana Valley
Unit Alpha of the National Security Service ran a special operation in Jalalabad, a city in the southern part of Kyrgyzstan. Five armed extremists were killed in the operation. Interim reports indicate that some of them were ringleaders of extremist organizations secret services of Kyrgyzstan and Uz
05.07.2006 10:34 msk Business
Advanced members of international organizations including the World Trade Organization will abolish direct and indirect cotton subsidies by autumn 2006. It will make raw cotton more expensive, and Russia that is exporting cotton by 80-85%, is directly affected. Central Asian cotton comes to Russia v
29.06.2006 17:19 msk Business
Beginning of oil production on Kashagan is postponed until 2009 or even 2010 from 2008, Kazakh Energy Minister Baktykoja Izmuhambetov said. Kashagan is to become one of the principal providers of oil for the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeihan pipeline, the project Kazakhstan officially joined earlier this month. "
28.06.2006 11:50 msk Business
Harvesting continues in the Namangan region. Specialists say that the crop of wheat is disappointing again, way below the last year yield. According to a source in the regional administration, the crop capacity was 60-70 centners a hectare in 2005. This year, however, the farmers who collect 50 cent
26.06.2006 16:38 msk Business
According to the Institute of Geology and Survey of Oil and Gas Fields of the national holding Uzbekneftegaz, Uzbekistan has natural gas for another 31 year at this production rate. Known oil reserves will last Uzbekistan almost 22 years, and condensed gas reserves up to 25 years.
26.06.2006 16:37 msk Business
Citizens of Uzbekistan encounter problems trying to receive the money transacted from abroad.
22.06.2006 16:55 msk Migration
This piece on the Uzbek diaspora in the Russian capital opens a series of articles on Central Asian communities in Russia.
21.06.2006 11:47 msk Business
The document "On development of cooperation between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the French Republic" the Uzbek president signed the other day states that the government will discuss the uranium purchase request from Cogema.
21.06.2006 11:35 msk Business
Following its rivals, Gazprom Oil (the former Sibneft) bought a retail network abroad - over 100 gas stations in Kyrgyzstan. The purchase cost it almost $100 million. Experts point out that the Russian company paid a lot for the ticket into a not particularly broad market.
19.06.2006 15:12 msk Business
A task group set up by the Reforms Forum of Soros-Kyrgyzstan Foundation within the framework of the contest "Stable Economic Development of the Kyrgyz Republic" points out that labor immigrants transact up to $500 million to Kyrgyzstan from abroad every year. The document specialists came up with co
17.06.2006 18:02 msk Business
People started leaving Uzbekistan for the lands of their ancestors as soon as the Soviet Union disintegrated.
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