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Political Prisoner by Uzbek poet Rauf Parfi published in Kyrgyzstan

31.01.2006 23:51 msk Arts

Rauf Parfi died on March 28, 2005. He compiled this book of poems and mailed it to his friends several days before the death - in the hope that the poems turned down by publishers in Uzbekistan would be accepted elsewhere.

Mukhammad Salikh urges the West to support «a peaceful revolution» in Uzbekistan

30.01.2006 12:48 msk Analytics

With help from the international community, the opposition in exile may be counted on to launch the democratic changes and economic reforms the Uzbek people is longing for. This is what Uzbek writer and politician Muhammad Salikh, Islam Karimov's enemy of old, is trying to convince the Western elite

A WW-II movie filmed in Uzbekistan

28.01.2006 15:33 msk Arts

The shooting of motion picture Vatan [Motherland] at Uzbekfilm studios is over. Director of the movie is Zulfikar Musakov (The Bomb, Abdullajon, Boys In Heaven).

Qorasuv rebels leader Bakhtijar Rakhimov is facing trial

25.01.2006 10:33 msk Ferghana Valley

Sources say that the trial of Bakhtijar Rakhimov, organizer of the events in the Uzbek town of Qorasuv (former Ilyichevsk) last May, began in one of the courts of the Tashkent region, yesterday. Fifty-eight witnesses (mostly young men) were summoned from Qorasuv.

Protest action in the mutinous city

24.01.2006 22:17 msk Ferghana Valley

Almost one hundred women, residents of Andizhan (Uzbekistan) organized a protest action yesterday. Cradling their kids, some of them blocked the city highways protesting against absence of gas and electric powers in their homes. The police did not interfere.

Population of the Andizhan region of Uzbekistan staged a protest action

24.01.2006 00:04 msk Ferghana Valley

A demonstration took place in the Ok-Jer mahallja [district] of Andizhan, its residents protesting against regular gas and electric power outages. About 30 young girls and women cradling infants and toddlers blocked the highway. They said they had been forced to stage the protest action by absence o

Neutralization of student disturbances in Tashkent in 1992: what it was like

24.01.2006 00:03 msk Analytics

Some incidents remain in the focus of public attention for years and decades even though information on what really happened is relatively scarce. One of the most acute events of the early 1990's took place fourteen years ago, on January 16, 1992, when student riots on the campus in Tashkent were br

Lists of Andizhan victims have never been published officially

13.01.2006 10:56 msk Ferghana Valley

Lists of the victims of the notorious events in Andizhan are being compiled and published. Moscow-based Human Rights Center Memorial published the list of 183 names. Far from being complete, of course, it nevertheless provides a foundation for continuation. The list in question was compiled on the b

Frightened by bigotry, Uzbek population of the southern Kyrgyzstan appeals to the president of the country

11.01.2006 11:08 msk Ferghana Valley

The 7th Kurultai [Conference] of the Uzbek Center of National Culture of the Dzhalalabad region (Kyrgyzstan) took place on the eve of the Ijd-i Kurban. The kurultai adopted an appeal to President Kurmanbek Bakiyev expressing its worries over nationalism.

Privatization of the Almalyk Mining and Smelting in Uzbekistan is postponed

28.11.2005 11:50 msk Business

REGNUM news agency quotes its sources in the Uzbek State Property Committee as saying that the government resolved to postpone privatization of the Almalyk Mining and Smelting in the Tashkent region until 2007.

Comments on Rustam Azimov's promotion to finance minister

26.11.2005 10:46 msk

Same thing just seen from a different angle. This is the only conclusion to be drawn from the latest power shuffles in the upper echelons of state power in Uzbekistan.

Ferghana Valley enclaves become zones of risk

28.09.2005 16:29 msk Ferghana Valley

When Central Asia was divided into sovereign states, the process generated numerous enclaves - territories that belong to one republic but are located in another. There are Uzbek enclaves Sokh and Shakhimardan in Kyrgyzstan. There is a foreign enclave in Uzbekistan too. Tajik enclave Sarvak is locat

Andijan: a city under arrest

14.07.2005 20:30 msk Ferghana Valley

Andijan does not look like a place which witnessed a massacre two months ago. The city is calm, with people going about their daily business. However, after spending a few hours there, one begins to realize that this is just an illusion. There is a large police and security presence — with many agen

President Saparmurat Niyazov promises to have the Turkmen Armed Forces outfitted with sophisticated weaponry and military hardware

11.05.2005 16:54 msk

Summing up results of Exercise Formidable Motherland with elements of shooting practice, President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov said that "Turkmenistan intends to go on outfitting its Armed Forces with sophisticated military hardware." The Turkmen military practiced defense of state borders in

Time of trouble around Sokh, an enclave on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border

11.05.2005 16:51 msk Ferghana Valley

Sokh is a small Uzbek enclave on the territory of Kyrgyzstan. Residents of a common state once, the locals are at odds with each other nowadays. Patrols of the police and border guards were dispatched to the area several days ago. Additional security measures are ascribed to the clashes among inhabi

International organizations take measures to prevent radioactive contamination of the Ferghana Valley

26.04.2005 15:15 msk Ferghana Valley

A major land slide was reported on April 13 in Kyrgyzstan, not far from the borders of the Namangan region (Uzbekistan) in the vicinity of the town of Mailu-Suu where radioactive wastes storage facilities are located. International mission ECOSAN was urgently formed to study the situation. Its funct

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