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12.11.2015 18:49 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Fergana just learnt Murad Jurayev, a well-known Uzbekistani oppositional political prisoner, has been released from prison on November 12. The photograph below was made almost immediately after his release and is post on Facebook.
12.11.2015 01:51 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Activists of the Ezgulik human rights advocacy society visited November 10 Murad Jurayev in prison. Mr Jurayev is a former MP and ex-mayor of a city in Kashkadarya Region (Uzbekistan), who has been imprisoned for over two decades.
04.11.2015 02:15 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
This fatigued man is well into his seventh decade. He was a boss of this or that kind more than half of his life. For a quarter-century he was under the rule of the despised others in Soviet times, and he has been Boss No. 1 in an independent country for almost the same number of years. At this time
02.11.2015 20:57 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Fire broke out in the house of Dmitriy Tikhonov, a journalist and rights advocate, and destroyed part of the house and property in the town of Yangiabad 15km from the city of Angren in Tashkent Region on October. The cause of fire is unknown at this time. The house owner learnt about the fire only o
02.11.2015 17:04 msk Analytics Books Interview Turkmenistan
The Swedish publishing house “Gun” has issued the first collection of uncensored modern Turkmen prose and poetry in twenty years. There are twelve authors, two of whom published their writings solely in the Russian language whereas the rest are in both Russian and Turkmen. The collection entitled “B
29.10.2015 12:12 msk
On October 23, 2015, the editorial office of the Fergana.Ru Information Agency Limited Liability Company received a letter entitled “The demand to refute information that blemish business reputation and not corresponding the truth” that was signed by Uzbek citizen Irgashev Bakhtiyor Ilyasovich and a
22.10.2015 13:31 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Uzbekistan
According to many employees of state-funded institutions, who have been forcefully sent to cotton fields in Uzbekistan , they manually collected the entire harvest of cotton this year. They report seeing not even one cotton-picking machine throughout the whole period of their work on the fields. Mea
16.10.2015 10:35 msk Politics Turkey, Republic of
The intense explosions that rocked Ankara on October 10 caused the deaths of some 100 individuals and wounds of scores. A rally for peace organised by trade unions and leftist organisations, including Kurdish ones, ended in a bloody mess. The Turkish authorities, undoubtedly, will attempt to lay the
15.10.2015 10:51 msk Analytics Business Politics Uzbekistan
Another important “threshold” has been passed in the Uzbek currency market: the US dollar now trades at over 5,000 soums. Illegal currency converters on the market are purchasing the US dollar at 4,950 soums and selling at 5,030. Thus, the value of the Uzbek national currency dropped 45.7% since the
12.10.2015 10:47 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Religious life
The Kara-Suu District Court in Osh Region completed a trial of the case of Rashod Kamalov, a popular imam at the As-Sarakhsi mosque, on October 7. Mr Kamalov is charged with three crimes, each of which fell under two articles in the Kyrgyz crime code: inciting religious animosity, abuse of power, an
06.10.2015 23:01 msk Business Kyrgyzstan Russia Uzbekistan
During its entire quarter-century independence period, Kyrgyzstan constantly had to hold challenging negotiations with Uzbekistan on the conditions of supply and delivery of natural gas by the latter. This gas cabbala may soon come to its end: Gazprom’s engineers are completing the blueprints of the
29.09.2015 01:32 msk Analytics Business Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
According to information Fergana obtained from several sources, thousands of residents of the city of Angren in Tashkent Region of Uzbekistan are engaged in this year’s cotton-picking campaign. The area is of particular interest because its one of the sites the World Bank has financed a project. One
23.09.2015 22:38 msk Central Asia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan
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23.09.2015 13:39 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
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18.09.2015 00:59 msk Afghanistan Analytics Business Central Asia China Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
We discussed Russia’s “southward turn”, a much-discussed topic lately, with Vladimir Milov, a well-known Russian economist, politician and Demokraticheskiy Vybor Party Chairman. After all, the roads to “long monies” that are vital for any economy’s survival are closed in the Europe-bound directions.
16.09.2015 12:14 msk Business Human Rights Uzbekistan
The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights published “Silk Noose on Uzbek Farmers’ Neck,” which sheds light on 1) the use of forced labour in silk cocoon production in Uzbekistan and 2) centralised approach on the cocoon production and government monopoly, which impose production quotas on the farmers
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