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Artist Vyacheslav Useinov: One has to swim against the current

Artist Vyacheslav Useinov: One has to swim against the current

16.04.2008 13:35 msk Interview Uzbekistan

Vyacheslav (Yuri) Useinov's personal exhibition "Fractal Realism" opens in the Fine Arts Gallery of the National Bank of Uzbekistan on April 17. The prominent Uzbek artist owes the exhibition to help from the Swiss Agency of Development and Cooperation, Center of French Culture, Sarkor Telecom, and

Uzbekistan: International friendship monument in central Tashkent dismantled

Uzbekistan: International friendship monument in central Tashkent dismantled

16.04.2008 00:01 msk Politics Uzbekistan

The Tashkent authorities had the International Friendship monument in front of the Friendship of Peoples Palace dismantled on April 12 night. The monument had been erected in memory of the Shamakhmudovs who adopted 15 orphans in the Great Patriotic War and became a symbol of generosity and humanism

Real estate in Uzbekistan: The demand is outgrowing supply

Real estate in Uzbekistan: The demand is outgrowing supply

09.04.2008 10:39 msk Business Uzbekistan

Real estate prices in Uzbekistan keep going up. A one-room apartment in Andijan (Ferghana Valley) that cost $1,500-2,000 a couple of years ago according to unofficial estimates costs $8,000-10,000 nowadays.

Uzbekistan: From free enterprise to the Soviet distribution system

Uzbekistan: From free enterprise to the Soviet distribution system

07.04.2008 12:59 msk Business Uzbekistan

The Uzbek authorities resort to the tried-and-true administrative techniques as a way of dealing with high prices. As of now, all dealers in vegetable oil are ordered to sell it 50-100% below the standing market price.

Uzbekistan: Urgench authorities ordered a rally of local vendors dispersed

Uzbekistan: Urgench authorities ordered a rally of local vendors dispersed

01.04.2008 13:39 msk Business Uzbekistan

An unprecedented protest action took place in Urgench, the largest city in the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan, on the last day of March. Local vendors numbering nearly 200 (mostly women) protested against transfer of the bazaar to the outskirts and unfair distribution of stalls at the new site.

The United States counts on a progressive dialogue with Uzbekistan

The United States counts on a progressive dialogue with Uzbekistan

28.03.2008 20:53 msk Politics Uzbekistan

"The United States does not have military bases in Uzbekistan and neither has it applied for their establishment in this country," Ambassador Richard Norland said. "This issue was not on the agenda of Admiral Fallon's visit to Tashkent this January. It is not on the agenda of the US Administration a

An update on the Uzbek-US relations. The stick and the carrot policy again?

An update on the Uzbek-US relations. The stick and the carrot policy again?

17.03.2008 09:58 msk Analytics Uzbekistan

Observers regularly comment on how the US Administration has been sending persistent signals to Tashkent on its willingness to restore the bilateral relations and become friends again. World's first promoter of democracy and human rights, the United States never criticizes Islam Karimov for excess a

Exactly what the presidents of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan discussed is anybody's guess

Exactly what the presidents of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan discussed is anybody's guess

11.03.2008 14:15 msk Politics Uzbekistan

President of Turkmenistan Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov will become a doctor again this morning - Honorary Doctor of the Tashkent Academy of Medicine. (This is how day two of Berdymuhammedov's state visit to Uzbekistan is scheduled to begin.) Berdymuhammedov will be shown ancient Samarkand after that.

Human rights activist Tamara Chikunova urges the Uzbek authorities to publish data on the executed and burial sites

Human rights activist Tamara Chikunova urges the Uzbek authorities to publish data on the executed and burial sites

28.02.2008 10:43 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

Death sentence was officially abolished in Uzbekistan on January 1. 2008. Mothers Against Death Sentence and Torture, an organization Tamara Chikunova founded in 2000, has been fighting capital punishment tooth and claw for nearly eight years.

Germany amplifies economic cooperation with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

Germany amplifies economic cooperation with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

28.02.2008 10:21 msk Analytics Uzbekistan

Michael Gloss, German Minister of Economy and Technologies, is completing his four-day tour of Central Asia (Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan). Addressing journalists, Gloss said that Germany intended to amplify economic cooperation with Central Asian countries.

Uzbekistan: State officials use the Internet to leak what information they need known

Uzbekistan: State officials use the Internet to leak what information they need known

22.02.2008 14:20 msk Interview Uzbekistan

Rumors that Rustam Azimov and nobody else is slated to become the next prime minister of Uzbekistan have been circulating for months now. Uzmetronom was the first to broach the matter of premier's replacement on February 21. Kazakhstan Today took it up. Ditto Lenta.ru. The government of Uzbekistan i

Uzbek National Bank violates its commitments to customers

Uzbek National Bank violates its commitments to customers

18.02.2008 10:10 msk Business Uzbekistan

All official regulations and procedures aside, the Uzbek National Bank arrogantly ignores its own commitments to customers whose rights are systematically encroached on. Tashkent sources report that delays with distribution of the finances transacted to private bank accounts began in early December

Uzbekistan: Prominent rights activist Saidjahon Zainabitdinov amnestied and released

Uzbekistan: Prominent rights activist Saidjahon Zainabitdinov amnestied and released

05.02.2008 11:28 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

A prominent Andijan human rights activist Saidjahon Zainabitdinov was amnestied together with several other political prisoners following the order of the Main Directorate of Administrating Punishment under the Interior Ministry of Uzbekistan. Saidjahon Zainabitdinov founded the Appellation Human Ri

Uzbekistan: Tashkent tax police demolished Nirvana trade network

Uzbekistan: Tashkent tax police demolished Nirvana trade network

29.01.2008 20:22 msk Business Uzbekistan

Tashkent tax department and the Uzbek Republican Copyright Agency launched an unprecedented large-scale joint operation on January 25, 2008. 18 tax squads accompanied by local media reporters and state broadcasting corporation correspondents simultaneously broke out into18 outlets of the Nirvana tra

Expert-Kazakhstan: Migration prompts economic degradation in Uzbekistan

Expert-Kazakhstan: Migration prompts economic degradation in Uzbekistan

22.01.2008 18:37 msk Migration Uzbekistan

The Uzbeks are considered the most settled nation in the Central Asia region. They would leave their homeland as a last resort. However, population outflow has significantly increased in the recent years. Those who had left the country before 1992 would hardly come back. The state in its turn tacitl

A short review of Uzbek jails as seen by a human rights activist

A short review of Uzbek jails as seen by a human rights activist

09.01.2008 15:59 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

Jail is the worst ordeal man may encounter in his life. Jadgar Turlibekov, 69, the head of the Kashkadarja division of the Uzbek Human Rights Society, spent six months behind the bars on fabricated charges. What he had endured there Turlibekov told Ferghana.Ru shortly before he escaped Uzbekistan fo

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