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19.06.2008 15:57 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
An international campaign continues to protest Uzbekistan’s censorship of internet websites.
10.06.2008 21:37 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Organized by the Institute for Civil Society Studies, Regional Politics Foundation, and the Uzbek National Center for Human Rights, the international seminar, «Freedom of the media in a modern democracy» opened in Tashkent on June 9. The Uzbek principal news agency, UzA , may never have planned to r
10.06.2008 17:16 msk Interview Uzbekistan
A recent newspaper series has published stories about those people who played a key role in post-communist Russian history. Telman Gdljan, a major investigator with the Prosecutor General's Office of the USSR from 1983 to 1990, was the first of such people to be interviewed. Gdljan was the news in t
09.06.2008 20:34 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Certain progress in the relations between Uzbekistan and the West has been undeniable. This assumption is confirmed by frequent visits US and EU senior officials pay to Tashkent, the announcements of increasing Western investments in the Uzbek processing industry, and general advancement in trade an
04.06.2008 11:54 msk Business Uzbekistan
A candy manufacturing factory in Tashkent is being demolished as part of an urban renewal project, in spite of previous assurances that the building would be left intact.
28.05.2008 18:47 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
The capital of Uzbekistan is being spruced up for an unscheduled celebration, its 2,200th jubilee. Central streets are being swept clean before new asphalt is poured and flower beds are being arranged along the streets. Those buildings that fail to look smart enough are hidden behind sheets of metal
22.05.2008 12:09 msk Uzbekistan
Samarkand administration fence with city emblem on it
20.05.2008 14:03 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Sanobar Shermatova of the RIA-Novosti Expert Council
15.05.2008 23:46 msk Business Uzbekistan
Nothing makes a country famous better than athletics." This quote from President Islam Karimov became the slogan of the republican youth Olympics Barkamol Avlod'2008 [Healthy Generation] opening May 17 in Nukus near the Aral Sea.
13.05.2008 10:36 msk Interview Uzbekistan
Uzbek authorities recently postponed a media conference that was to be co-sponsored by the European Union. This media forum was to take place in Tashkent in late May, and was slated to become an element of the EU-Uzbek human rights dialogue to confirm progress made by the Uzbek regime. According to
12.05.2008 22:23 msk Cotton Uzbekistan
Concern grows about irrigation problems which could adversely effect Uzbekistan’s cotton crop. Cotton now accounts for one-fifth of Uzbekistan’s hard currency revenues.
08.05.2008 20:08 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Russian and European officials are apparently vying to regain influence in Uzbekistan with an eye on having a ready labor force. In an attempt to assure that Russian is taught in schools, Russian educators held a conference in Khorezm for local educators. A similar conference, focusing on European l
05.05.2008 14:25 msk Analytics Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan has always been skeptical of proposals by Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, to unify the region. Furthermore, Uzbekistan President, Islom Karimov, does not conceal his suspicions about the true intent of Kazakh leaders as they seek to become leaders of the region. In 2002, Ta
29.04.2008 14:41 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan has repealed all death sentences. The law entitled, "On abolition of capital punishment", that came into effect on January 1, 2008, demands that executing prisoners by firing squad be replaced by imposing life sentences or sentences of 20-25 years behind bars. As a re
22.04.2008 17:33 msk Politics Uzbekistan
President Islam Karimov's last official visit to the capital of Kazakhstan was in September 2006. Analysts say that the visit these days marks the beginning of a new geopolitical axis in Central Asia, the one comprising Astana and Tashkent. As a matter of fact, Karimov's visit is taking place right
17.04.2008 17:04 msk Uzbekistan
Friendship of Peoples monument was already moved from central Tashkent to the outskirts, and the Monument of Valor may end up there too.
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