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18.05.2015 09:40 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Religious life
Over the last two weeks, the city of Osh in the south of Kyrgyzstan has been plagued by rumours about an imminent “revolution” or an “interethnic conflict.” Nobody knows who is disseminating them and what goals the initiators of this fear campaign are pursuing.
28.03.2015 22:09 msk Analytics Human Rights Politics Religious life Russia Uzbekistan
Pulat Ahunov is an oppositionist from Uzbekistan, who is chairman of the Sweden-based Association Central Asia and the founder of the Foundation for Combatting Corruption in Uzbekistan. Mr. Ahunov shares his memories of meetings with Islam Karimov in late 1980s to mid-1990s.
13.02.2015 14:31 msk Analytics Central Asia Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Religious life Uzbekistan
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04.02.2015 01:00 msk Analytics Central Asia Politics Religious life
Before commenting upon current events, I would like to pause for a moment until the first towering, tsunami-like wave of quasi-pathological Islamophobia recedes—a wave which swamped all news channels as well as the heads of many of our contemporaries, who alas seem to have abruptly become stupid (or
29.01.2015 17:51 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia Interview Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Asia Daniel Rosenblum told the Voice of America that over 300 modern military machines would be granted to Uzbekistan in the next few months. To be more specific, 308 Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles and 20 more armoured recovery to main
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
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,” “
14.09.2013 13:14 msk Books Central Asia Religious life Turkey, Republic of
Hendrick, Joshua: Gulen. The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World . New York University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8147-7098-6. Order this book here
31.05.2013 00:26 msk Central Asia Human Rights Interview Migration Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
The US-based independent expert on Eurasia and Russian translator Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick answered Fergana editor-in-chief's questions. The interview was on the recent arrest of another former Uzbek citizen in the United States, Fazliddin Kurbanov. The expert is certain that there were most seriou
27.01.2013 23:40 msk Analytics Central Asia Religious life
After a conference at Carnegie Moscow on Turkish and Central Asian relations, we took the opportunity to ask Bayram Balci for an interview on Sait Nursi and Fethullah Gülen followers in Central Asia since the end of the Soviet Union.
14.09.2012 16:26 msk Kazakhstan Religious life
Police detained 32 year old Uzbek refugee Makset Djabbarbergenov on 5 September in Almaty (Kazakhstan) and on 7 September the Bostandyk District Prosecutor's Office issued authorisation to detain him for up to 40 days, until the Prosecutor General decides whether he is to be extradited to the Uzbek
03.05.2011 18:26 msk Kyrgyzstan Religious life
Speaking last Friday, April 29, Kyrgyz National Security State Service chief Keneshbek Dushebyaev said in an address to parliament that 400 citizens of Kyrgyzstan, mainly ethnic Uzbeks, are currently training in terrorist camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They went after the June events in southern
05.03.2011 19:07 msk Central Asia Religious life
Adeeb Khalid is Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. A historian of modern Central Asia, he is the author of two books, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (University of California Press, 19
20.05.2010 08:52 msk Religious life Uzbekistan
On May 18 Mirzo-Ulugbek district criminal court of Tashkent considered the case of 8 workers and congregants of Tashkent Church of Christ, accused of few criminal attempts. As a result three defendants – Church pastor and two congregants – became the subject of 15 day administrative arrest; the acco
20.03.2009 15:32 msk Religious life Russia
Today, the growth of religious tunes in Central Asia is viewed by experts as the time bomb and limited continuation of free development in these countries; even Soviet regime with its systematic atheism closed eyes to Islamic factor in Central Asian republics, viewing it as one of the public life re
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