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25.12.2014 13:40 msk Analytics Business Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Russia
On 23 Dec 2014, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev signed a document, which brought his country into the fold of the European Economic Union Treaty. Talks on the conditions of Kyrgyzstan’s joining the union lasted literally until the very last hour. A source in the Kyrgyz foreign ministry told Ferg
11.12.2014 13:55 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Interview Kyrgyzstan Politics
Eamon Gilmore , the former deputy prime minister and the former minister for foreign affairs of Ireland, visited Аzimjan Askarov, a human rights activists imprisoned for life, at the proposal of Front Line Defenders on the eve of the International Human Rights Day. Mr. Askarov has told about his cas
25.11.2014 23:05 msk Human Rights Politics Russia Turkmenistan
On 31 October 2014, the Presnenskiy District Court in Moscow dismissed the complaint lodged by Tatyana Shikhmuradova, the wife of Boris Sikhmuradov who is imprisoned for life in Turkmenistan. Mrs. Shikhmuradova lodged a lawsuit against the foreign affairs ministry of Russia, which has applied no eff
12.11.2014 17:57 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia China Interview Iran Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Politics Religious life Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Several weeks ago ISIS (also known as ISIL and Islamic State) forces reached Turkey’s borders, destroying all ‘infidels’ in their path, by which they mean both Christians and Muslims belonging to other branches of Islam. Support for ISIS has also extended beyond its region: Afghan and Pakistani memb
09.11.2014 00:42 msk Central Asia China Human Rights Kazakhstan Politics Religious life
The Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XUAR) has been unstable over the last several years: Some in the local Uighur population are unhappy with the way the Chinese authorities are handling the region and are demanding independence from Beijing. Armed clashes between the Uighur population of the region and
24.10.2014 13:41 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia China Iran Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Politics Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Carnegie Moscow Center presented the “Exploring the Prospects of Russian-Turkish Cooperation in a Turbulent Neighborhood” report compiled by the Carnegie Center and the Global Relations Forum (GRF) in Istanbul. The two organizations established a Working Group dedicated to exploring the potential fo
16.10.2014 10:39 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
A new letter DRD Partnership circulated late Tuesday is entitled “Recent reports about Gulnara are false and deliberately misleading.” “Gulnara” here is the elder daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, while DRD Partnership is a London-based consulting company that calls itself “an official repr
13.10.2014 13:40 msk Analytics Central Asia Politics Religious life Tajikistan
On 10 Oct 2014, a protest rally was planned in Dushanbe per announcements the leader of the oppositionist Gruppa 24 Umarali Kuvvatov made on social networks. The group’s plans included people taking to streets and waving “Tajikistan demands changes,” “Tajikistan without Rakhmon,” “Fair elections,” “
12.10.2014 23:11 msk Analytics Central Asia Human Rights Politics Tajikistan Uzbekistan
Statues of Alisher Navoi and Abdurakhman Jami in Samarkand. The great Turkic poet Alisher Navoi, the founder of the old Uzbek language through his creative works, was also known as the Farsi-speaking poet Alisher Fani. The great Tajik poet Abdurakhman Jami, a mentor and a friend of Navoi’s, said abo
07.10.2014 09:37 msk Business Politics Uzbekistan
Uzbek President Islam Karimov, whose trip to Prague was cancelled and indefinitely postponed, will be able to travel to the Czech Republic in 2015, in case he wins the next elections and remains president.
06.10.2014 10:40 msk Politics Uzbekistan
On September 11, the Central Elections Committee of Uzbekistan turned the green light for political parties: they can now officially launch their pre-election campaigns, which was supposed to start mid-September. The actual parliamentary elections for seats in the Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis
29.09.2014 04:01 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Human Rights Watch presented a report entitled “‘Until the Very End’: Politically Motivated Imprisonment in Uzbekistan” in Warsaw, Poland. The 121-page document is based on 150 in-depth interviews with the relatives of political prisoners, their lawyers, human rights activists and former Uzbek offic
23.09.2014 12:12 msk Human Rights Interview Politics Uzbekistan
Many Russian and European mass media circulated images depicting Gulnara Karimova rudely held by hands by people in fatigues. Ms. Karimova’s “official representative,” Locksley Ryan of Davidson Ryan Dore , provided the images in question.
19.09.2014 10:23 msk Analytics Politics Russia Turkey, Republic of
One of many rallies in Turkey in support of the Crimean Tatars
10.09.2014 23:50 msk Analytics Business Politics Uzbekistan
Several sources of Fergana.Ru in Tashkent partially confirm information on the probable departure of the TeliaSonera Swedish-Finnish Telecommunications Concern from the mobile communications market of Uzbekistan. The reasons behind such a move are quite obvious.
03.09.2014 07:13 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
It was impossible to freely and easily reach one’s destination either on foot or driving in central Tashkent over the last few days of August. The reason for that was rather banal: heavy traffic jams resulting from visits the country’s president was paying to newly-built facilities and buildings in
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