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19.10.2012 09:56 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
An attempt on the life of Uzbek imam Obidhon-kori Nazarov took place on 22 February 2012 in Stromsund, Sweden. The Uzbek community in Stromsund believes that the imam has been an eyesore for the Tashkent authorities and has called on the imam to be vigilant. The attempted murderer shot the imam at t
15.10.2012 11:03 msk Business Uzbekistan
Communications company TeliaSonera has been shaken by a big scandal. A film shown on Swedish TV voiced suspicions that the management of this well known and large group of companies is involved in bribing powerful people and using corrupt business methods, in particular in regard to their Uzbekistan
25.09.2012 10:51 msk Interview Uzbekistan
In recent months and years the political and economic cooperation between the USA and Uzbekistan has been developing actively. This arouses lively interest and even some worry in other countries’ governments, and is a subject of discussion in the press and a reason for rumours amongst experts. Ferga
21.09.2012 09:49 msk Business Uzbekistan
On 19 September a Swedish public television current affairs program called Mission: Investigate (Uppdrag granskning) by journalists Sven Bergman, Joachim Dyfvermarkand and Fredrik Laurin, reported on Swedish telecommunications company TeliaSonera’s entrance to Uzbekistan.
20.09.2012 01:30 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Only a few years ago, Tashkent was seen as quite a safe and happy city: you could go for an evening stroll in most neighbourhoods. Sometimes the number of policemen on the street was annoying, but it is with good reason that Tashkent’s residents could proudly say that theirs was a safe city. It can
14.09.2012 13:48 msk Business Uzbekistan
The court case against MTS-Uzbekistan (foreign enterprise of Uzdunrobita) is quickly moving towards the finishing line. The hearing began on 27 August and the court has managed to question all the participants and witnesses and publish the case materials. Yesterday, on 12 September, oral arguments t
11.09.2012 22:58 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
The author of the poster is an artist from Uzbekistan (“Ustos”). It have been provided to Fergana by Sergey Ignatyev, “Creativity and Human Rights” project coordinator
03.09.2012 17:17 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The so called “cotton campaign” is starting at the beginning of September in Uzbekistan , when farmers are not the only ones to go the fields, but also government workers, students and school children. Even if, year after year, the authorities promise that the former will not be doing involuntary fr
03.09.2012 17:11 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
This letter is more like a note passed among prisoners of the penal colony 64/71 ( Uzbekistan ). They describe a new form of punishment administered chaotically, and their attempts to resist the violence directed against them to suppress the human spirit.
10.07.2012 12:02 msk Arts Uzbekistan
A new novel by the contemporary Uzbek writer and poet Hamid Ismailov who lives in London today, is entitled “Zhinlar Basmi” (Dance of devils). It is a story of life of a prominent Uzbek writer Abdulla Qadyri, the author of historical novels "Days Bygone" and "Scorpion from the altar”, who was arrest
08.07.2012 22:45 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
“I will be arrested the minute I land in Uzbekistan and then thrown in prison,” an Uzbek human rights activist tells me, “and what happens with me afterwards is a good question.”
03.07.2012 22:14 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
“Uzbekistan’s rapid rapprochement with Russia, heard in the voice of Islam Karimov meeting with the Russian president Putin and defense minister Ivanov, has delivered some of the initial tangible results. According to Fergana’s credible sources, in the nearest future Uzbekistan is going to sign some
03.07.2012 10:43 msk Business Uzbekistan
Pressure to meet production quotas is making life unbearable for many farmers in Uzbekistan, and some say they would sell up and emigrate if only they could.
07.06.2012 01:10 msk Business Uzbekistan
The newly published «From the field: Travels of Uzbek Cotton Through the Value Chain» paper authored by Valentina Gurney, cotton program manager at the Responsible Sourcing Network, and Patricia Jurewicz, the RSN director and Alina Shlyapochnik, as contributing editors, presents a first part of a se
30.05.2012 21:53 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Sukhrobjon Ismoilov, director of the Expert Working Group (Uzbekistan) has distributed a report by the Expert Working Group on new restrictions on Internet for the Uzbek youth. The group finds out, in particular, that in an attempt to win the hearts of the youth in the face of so called “mass cultur
24.05.2012 19:07 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The trial for an elderly Russian lady Tamara Talashmanova who was arrested in Uzbekistan and faced 5 to 7 years in prison for carrying a pack of sedative pills Phenazepam has been canceled. According to the Sverdlov’s public television (Russia) which quotes a statement issued by the office of the Ru
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