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31.01.2018 17:59 msk Afghanistan Analytics Business Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Emomali Rahmon is a leader whose political whit served him well: not only is he the President of Tajikistan for the 26th year in a row, but he has also been able to personally enrich himself and his family. Having eliminated most of the checks on his power inside the country, something wholly differ
19.01.2018 15:38 msk Analytics Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Political Science is usually quite good at figuring out the main power players and relevant structures in the political systems of most countries. Those of us who are interested in Central Asia, however, will encounter an utterly incredible mess in the analysis of the political processes in the regi
28.12.2017 17:20 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
On 26 December, Tashkent journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev accused of an infringement on the constitutional order in Uzbekistan has suddenly rejected the assistance of lawyer Sergei Mayorov. He is the only defender who has managed to meet with the detained journalist two times, and who at least someho
18.12.2017 11:08 msk Business Human Rights Uzbekistan
On photo: the demolition of the building of the former district police on the street of Uzbekistan
13.12.2017 09:44 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia Religious life Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
There are numerous reports from the northern provinces of Afghanistan about the arrival of well-equipped militants, who do not hide their belonging to the IS terrorist group (the banned terrorist organisation "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant", ISIL, ISIS or IS Eng., "Daesh" Arab.) The Fergana N
16.11.2017 00:24 msk Central Asia Interview Russia Uzbekistan
It is difficult to catch up with Nargis Abdullaeva—she has a lot of work and trips to make around the country.
14.11.2017 23:49 msk Afghanistan Central Asia Politics Religious life Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
In the northern provinces of Afghanistan—Sar-e Pul and Balkh—the positions of the militants of the so-called "Islamic State" (the banned terrorist organisation "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant," (ISIL), IS or ISIS in English, Daesh in Arabic) are visibly strengthened.
07.11.2017 18:38 msk Analytics Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
The last Uzbek address of Saipov was Bel-Tepa Street, Shayhantaur district, Tashkent. He had his registration discontinued in 2011, a year after he left for America. Ferghana News journalists and their Moscow colleagues visited the address early in the morning to see if perhaps one of the neighbours
07.11.2017 11:48 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The National Security Service (SNB) of Uzbekistan arrested well-known blogger, journalist, social activist, and economics teacher Hayotkhan Nasreddinov in Tashkent, Asiaterra.info reported last Saturday.
02.11.2017 21:27 msk Analytics Migration Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
On 31 October, a terrorist attack ruined Halloween in New York. A 29-year-old man at the wheel of a rented truck drove at high speed onto a bike path running along the Hudson River, driving several blocks while crushing random passers-by and bicyclists. Then the pickup truck crashed into a school bu
29.10.2017 22:50 msk Analytics Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Weekly editorial by Ernest Zhanaev, English Editor
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
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.
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
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