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13.03.2013 21:31 msk Business Ferghana Valley Tajikistan Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan’s plan to build a new rail line linking Tashkent to the Fergana Valley would mean eliminating the current international route through Tajikistan, which has relied on roughly $25 million a year in transit fees. Following the break up of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan’s rail lines have become
08.03.2013 21:03 msk Human Rights Interview Politics Uzbekistan
A guard in tracksuit and the entire diplomatic corpus of the Uzbek mission to the UN protect Gulnara Karimova’s estate in Geneva
04.03.2013 10:49 msk Analytics Business Politics Uzbekistan
Photo: Perhaps Islam Karimov and his subservient officials alone applaud Uzbekistan’s “success” stories
20.02.2013 12:27 msk Russia Uzbekistan
On 21 February 1913, the first Islamic prayer was performed in the Grand Mosque in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Then-the only mosque in Russia’s northern capital was solemnly opened for public the next day.
12.02.2013 10:56 msk Kyrgyzstan Migration Uzbekistan
The tragic events of June 2010 in Southern Kyrgyzstan impacted not only the lives of those involved, but also of those abroad. Ethnic Kyrgyz citizens of Uzbekistan moved to Kyrgyzstan. The major reason is discrimination on part of Uzbeks and fear. However, having “returned” to their historical mothe
01.02.2013 10:28 msk Analytics Politics Uzbekistan
Islam Karimov has lived through his humanly and political peak long time ago, having remained in power for almost a quarter of a century. He is now 75 and it is difficult to understand whether he really is a brutal dictator or just an obsolete personality, who makes no decisions in the country anymo
25.01.2013 22:49 msk Business Russia Uzbekistan
Fergana continues publishing review articles on 2012 outcomes in Uzbekistan . The first article was on the cooling of political ties with Russia and its political bloc, which was one of the most discussed topics last year. The second article will cover a scandal related to booting MTS from Uzbekista
24.01.2013 23:43 msk Analytics Politics Russia Uzbekistan
On 18 January 2013, Uzbek President Islam Karimov chaired a special session on results and outcomes in 2012. The government followed the routine of reporting successes and achievements, which pleased the president, Uzbek mass media reported. Islam Karimov has, too, delivered a speech. In it, he indi
24.01.2013 09:55 msk Ferghana Valley Uzbekistan
The Kyrgyz-Uzbek border in the Fergana Valley remains closed and inaccessible on both sides. The status quo leaves citizens of respective countries a few choices to deal with it and resolve daily issues: buying food, trade, and observing religious rituals.
27.12.2012 12:58 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Many observers have noticed that the Uzbek president’s oldest daughter has started coming out in the media, on TV screens and on the internet more and more often. Whether she has started some new stage in her PR campaign, and what aims the Uzbek princess is following is yet unknown. Maybe she just l
24.12.2012 10:51 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
The 2012 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has concluded, and the system of forced labor of cotton production remained the same as in previous years. December 20, 2012, the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights and the Cotton Campaign released the Review of the 2012 Cotton Harvest, which explains that impl
12.12.2012 16:50 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Gulnara Karimova makes like she knows nothing about torture - only dresses, yoga and jewelry.
12.12.2012 13:50 msk Politics Uzbekistan
It seems that nobody actually believes that free and fair elections will ever take place in Central Asia. On the other hand, it is still totally unclear, how the power change will happen in some of the authoritarian countries. Will Nazarbayev, Karimov and Rahmon, who have been ruling for twenty and
06.12.2012 11:47 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The Uzbek government should unconditionally release all of its political prisoners on the 20 th anniversary of the adoption of the country’s constitution on December 8, 2012, human rights groups said today. Freeing the country’s many political prisoners would demonstrate a genuine commitment to Uzbe
03.12.2012 21:28 msk Uzbekistan
World famous film star Gerard Depardieu has visited Uzbekistan. The actor visited Tashkent, Bukhara and Samarkand from 26 to 29 November. It seems that the visit made a bright impression on the sixty year old actor. He noted the “unbelievable scenery, richness and a sort of calm in everything” and c
30.11.2012 00:07 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Left photo: Nadejda Atayeva, leader of the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (France)
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