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25.10.2017 23:02 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan
A museum dedicated to life and murder of a young and prominent journalist Alisher Saipov opens its doors in the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan , Osh city, where ten years ago, on 24 October, two bullets, the assassin shot at the journalist, stopped his independent voice.
23.10.2017 09:26 msk Business Central Asia Editorial Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan
Weekly editorial by Ernest Zhanaev, English Editor, Fergana News
19.10.2017 04:07 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
"Open Journalism in Central Asia" Media Conference organised by Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) starts today in Tashkent, which will discuss issues of freedom of the media. This event, expected for fifteen years, can rightly be considered a breakthrough in relations betwee
13.10.2017 09:08 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics
The situation around the presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan, scheduled for 15 October, continues to heat up. The national authorities themselves are afraid of possible unrest and external interference in the voting process, and the opposition expresses concerns by the flow of complaints about its
05.10.2017 22:41 msk Human Rights Opposition Politics Uzbekistan
Sometimes, good news keeps on coming from Uzbekistan: journalist and human rights activist Solizhon Abdurakhmanov freed on 4 October, who spent more than nine years in prison on a fabricated charge. Abdurakhman Tashanov, representative of the human rights society "Ezgulik" informed Fergana about it.
04.10.2017 08:12 msk Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life
Religion has traditionally been a delicate topic for Kyrgyzstan . Even though the overwhelming majority of the Republic’s population identifies as Muslim, no presidential candidate has been in any hurry to touch upon the topic of religion in their election manifestos. Is the political elite ignoring
03.10.2017 16:09 msk Afghanistan Migration Politics Uzbekistan
It’s a Sunday at the end of one of the many busy weeks working on the new BBC Uzbek TV programme for Afghanistan’s Uzbek-speakers. I am on a shopping trip to the bustling East Street market in South London, where fresh fruit and vegetables are in abundance and sold for almost nothing. Known as a tra
03.10.2017 09:10 msk Human Rights Internet Politics Uzbekistan
The atmosphere in Uzbekistan is changing; breathing is becoming freer. A more biting press is emerging, the previously crushed and cornered public is reviving, and the authorities loudly declare adherence to universal human rights.
28.09.2017 17:32 msk Analytics Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
This cotton season in Uzbekistan barely started has already claimed lives of four people. The sad statistics of the newest Uzbek "cotton-growing" replenishes year by year.
24.09.2017 11:04 msk Analytics Editorial Politics Uzbekistan
September visit of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the United States intended to participate in the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly, actually accommodated many important events for official Tashkent, diplomatic, economic and humanitarian. Somehow, this trip of the Uzbek lea
21.09.2017 09:57 msk Human Rights Migration Politics Russia Uzbekistan
Human rights defender Bahrom Khamroev was born in Uzbekistan , but since 1992 he lives in Russia. Working for the Moscow-based Memorial Centre Bahrom oversees issues related to the protection of the civil rights of fellow countrymen and migrant workers who have arrived from other Central Asia republ
17.09.2017 19:46 msk Politics Uzbekistan
Article illustrations: the official Twitter of the Football Federation of Uzbekistan, own Fergana photos
15.09.2017 13:08 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan Politics
“Krysha” (or “krisha”) in Russia means “roof” or “cover”. The term born in the 1990s when the rule of law was weak and racketeers protected vulnerable entrepreneurs from other gangsters for a fee or a share of its gain. Later, central or local government officials started "covering" business themsel
13.09.2017 16:31 msk Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life
On 12 September, the District Court in Bishkek sentenced journalist Zulpukar Sapanov to four years in prison finding him guilty of "inciting inter-religious hostility". Sapanov wrote and published the "Kydyr sanjyrasy" (literal translation - "Genealogy of the forefather Kydyr") book in which the aut
08.09.2017 18:03 msk Human Rights Interview Opposition Politics Uzbekistan
As Fergana previously reported, Interpol supposedly removed the names of the Uzbek opposition leader Muhammad Salih and his younger brother Maksud Bekzhan from its wanted list. Salih himself had talked about this to a BBC journalist. Fergana’s Editor-in-chief editor Daniil Kislov spoke to the poli-t
06.09.2017 23:21 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan
On 5 September, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrived in Bishkek to sign the agreement on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. Many experts, including the leadership of both republics, are considering the first visit of the Uzbek president to Kyrgyzstan in 17 years as a sign of warming of bilateral relatio
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