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07.12.2008 12:04 msk Uzbekistan
Bulgarian president Georgi Purvanov. Photo from Blog.Creato.biz
18.11.2008 16:42 msk Interview Uzbekistan
Antonietta Gobbis is a professor at Uzbek State University of Foreign Languages in Tashkent. She has gained a respect with her students and colleagues since she arrived to Tashkent in January 2008 for her professional activity and friendliness. How the inhabitant of Florence - the city that is often
15.11.2008 09:52 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is in the process of withdrawing from the Eurasian Economic Community it was a member to since 2006. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan submitted an official note to the EurAsEC Secretariat on the October 16-17 accompanied by President Karimov’s Official letter of explanation to th
12.11.2008 09:47 msk Business Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan embarked upon land reforms according to the 3077 decree signed by President Karimov in October 2008. Its aim is to strengthen the farm households by drawing hodgepodge of small farmlands under one holder. Local observers come to agree that land reforms what looks more as an attempt of "co
11.11.2008 11:46 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
David Holzmeyer is an American living in Khujand, Tajikistan. He teaches English at Khujand State University.
11.11.2008 10:24 msk Uzbekistan
The perception of fashion in Uzbekistan is quite different. It depends completely on a range of clothes available in its local bazaars. As the Uzbek cities, including the capital city of Tashkent, have almost no boutiques and shops selling modern clothes, the choice of those who want to buy high qua
28.10.2008 22:12 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Last Friday, 24 October, was the first anniversary of the murder of the Uzbek-Kyrgyz journalist, Alisher Saipov. With his articles about the massacre in Andijan in May 2005 — where the Uzbek army mowed down up to 1,000 peaceful demonstrators — Alisher was a thorn in the side of the Uzbek regime. It
10.10.2008 18:17 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage at a ten-year prison sentence handed down today by a court in Nukus, in the west of the country, to Solidzhon Abdurakhmanov, correspondent for several independent websites.
02.10.2008 15:42 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
The start of the school year in Europe each autumn is a period when education resumes its place at the heart of the lives of pupils and their families. The equivalent of this annual cycle is very different in the central Asian state of Uzbekistan, where soon after their own school year begins, most
16.09.2008 16:16 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
Just recently the Uzbek government vowed to combat the use of child labour on cotton fields. However, latest reports from Uzbekistan appear at odds with government’s intentions.
08.09.2008 15:55 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Low water level is threatening fish population in the Syrdarya River, experts say. This year the volume of water is ten times lower than last year and shoals of fish simply could not swim to spawning, Ablyakim Abirov, head of the Syrdarya state biological inspection in Uzbekistan, told Ferghana.ru.
29.08.2008 03:18 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
As more international companies from Europe, US and Canada refuse to buy Uzbek cotton in boycott to forced child labour in cotton fields, Uzbek authorities, who have been fiercely denying children are being sent to the fields, seem now ready for dialogue over the issue.
27.08.2008 22:18 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Health condition of Kagan residents, who witnessed series of powerful blasts at the artillery depot on July 10, has been deteriorating, according to unverified reports.
21.08.2008 21:39 msk Arts Uzbekistan
As capital Tashkent is getting prepared for 2200 anniversary celebrations next year, one of its historical sites, an ancient settlement of Minguruk, from which Tashkent developed several centuries ago, is now being temporarily closed. However, Tashkent residents are worried about the way operations
15.08.2008 19:50 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The four biggest groups representing the US retail and clothing industry are calling on Uzbekistan to end the widespread use of child labour in the harvesting of the country's cotton crop, Financial Times reports.
05.08.2008 05:25 msk Arts Uzbekistan
The World Heritage Committee asked the UNESCO headquarters to apply “reinforced monitoring” to the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand. The Committee is concerned with preservation of several historical sites in Samarkand.
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