Loss of time, business and freedom: that’s all foreign investors get in Uzbekistan

23.05.2012 20:56 msk Business Uzbekistan

Uzbek authorities make enormous efforts to fix the spoiled country’s reputation: it badly needs new investors instead of those it has had and used already. Tashkent runs a huge PR-campaign: forums, symposiums and even the Art Fashion Week, organized by Gulnara Karimova and her “Culture and Arts Foun

Uzbekistan: Old Russian woman to go to jail for a pack of pills

15.05.2012 00:16 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

A 73-years-old Russian woman Tamara Talashmanova from a small town of Sysert in Ural has been under home arrest in Uzbekistan since April 26, 2012. The Russian pensioner with no previous criminal record faces 5 to 7 years in prison.

Anti-prostitution campaign run across Uzbekistan

06.05.2012 22:28 msk Uzbekistan

A country-wide anti-prostitution campaign runs all over Uzbekistan this spring. It includes both street raids by the law enforcement as well as special awareness raising programs on TV. Indeed, prostitution has existed in Tashkent, just like any other city of Uzbekistan, at all times, but most recen

Shooting in Tashkent: People killed as a result of a violent prison riot suppression

05.05.2012 17:47 msk Uzbekistan

Men were killed a result of a prisoners’ riot violently suppressed by police in the outskirts of the capital of Uzbekistan on the 4th of May, 2012, though details of the deadly accident are not disclosed.

Uzbekistan: New members of the “persecuted journalists” club

03.05.2012 23:06 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

Trials over journalists like Elena Bondar and Viktor Krymzalov, employee of the UK embassy in Uzbekistan Leonid Kudryavtsev, along with many human rights defenders, such as Tatiana Dovlatova, in particular, vividly demonstrate that the authorities have changed their tactics towards punishing persons

Uzbekistan: 50th birthday in prison

26.04.2012 10:57 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

Today, Dilmurod Saidov is spending his 50th birthday in a prison work camp in Navoi, Uzbekistan . Over the course of the last year, the international community has watched, and debated, as relations between Uzbekistan and the West have steadily improved. But, as we discuss the costs and benefits of

Uzbekistan: Rustam Usmanov’s son applies to the president of Uzbekistan for a pardon

20.04.2012 16:49 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

Earlier this year, a formerly well-known banker, doctor of science, journalist and writer Rustam Usmanov who had already served 14 years in prison has been sentenced to additional 5 years while still in jail. His family and even his own defense attorney have learned about this post factum only. Desp

Rustam Usmanov’s simple math: Fourteen plus two

24.02.2012 22:45 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

It’s been reported to Fergana that Rustam Usmanov, formerly a well-known businessman, sentenced to 14 years in prison in Uzbekistan upon a number of tax charges in 1998, has recently been sentenced to another five years in prison under the article 221 of the Uzbekistan’s Criminal Code (“Noncomplianc

Uzbekistan: Jamshid Mukhtorov arrested in the USA and a former police officer from Uzbekistan used to be friends

24.02.2012 21:57 msk Migration Uzbekistan

In the course of the journalist investigation of the case of Jamshid Mukhtorov , arrested in the U.S upon terrorist charges, Fergana learned of another refugee from Uzbekistan , formerly a high ranking police officer in Jizak, who had been granted political asylum in the United States at about the s

Uzbekistan: What’s the use of “corn labyrinths” for tourism development?

10.02.2012 23:44 msk Business Uzbekistan

It’s never been easy to get an accurate statistics data of Uzbekistan . You can’t even find out for sure how many people live in this mysterious country: haw many men and women, how many prisoners and policemen, not to speak of millionaires or unemployed and labor migrants.

France: Human right activists extend their congratulations to Islam Karimov, too

31.01.2012 13:49 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

Human right activists from a number of international NGOs, including ACAT-France (Action des chretiens pour l'abolition de la torture et des executions capitals), FIDH (The International Federation for Human Rights), Amnesty International-France, the French League for Human Rights (LDH), along with

Villagers in Uzbekistan are freezing without natural gas which has been exported abroad

25.01.2012 21:53 msk Business Uzbekistan

Greenhouse gardening has traditionally been the major business and principal source of income for many villagers in the provinces surrounding the capital of Uzbekistan . This year, however, many villages have been disconnected from natural gas supplies forcing their residents switch to coal and wood

In courting Uzbekistan, the United States stoops too low

09.11.2011 12:52 msk Politics Uzbekistan

At an October 22 briefing designed to tout the enhanced relationship between the United States and Uzbekistan ahead of the first visit to the Central Asian country by a U.S. secretary of state in seven years, a senior State Department official was asked whether this strategic partner was still boili

Fabric of Abuse: Fashion world snubs fruits of Uzbek child labor

05.10.2011 22:59 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan: Psychologist Maxim Popov freed from jail

01.09.2011 15:08 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

Maxim Popov, born in 1982, civil activist, sentenced to seven years in Uzbek jail in 2009. Freed on June 9, 2011.

Uzbekistan: Citizen of Russia Yuri Korepanov released from custody, but cannot leave Uzbekistan

29.08.2011 01:37 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

Yuri Korepanov, a citizen of the Russian Federation convicted for 16 years in jail in Uzbekistan, has been released from custody, but he cannot leave for Russia. His documents are not issued.