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17.05.2017 15:52 msk Analytics Business Politics Uzbekistan
There will be no economic growth and progress in Uzbekistan in the next ten years, since the new president Shavkat Mirziyoyev continues the path of his predecessor Islam Karimov ‘without political reforms,’ which the country needs as air. They must be carried out first; otherwise any other changes w
15.05.2017 16:58 msk Analytics Ferghana Valley Human Rights Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
Activists of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan (PAU) held a traditional action in the centre of Tashkent at the foot of the ‘Courage’ monument on 13 May to commemorate the hundreds of peaceful Andijan residents, who died during the shooting of the rally 12 years ago. To the surprise of the par
15.05.2017 08:49 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has been in Uzbekistan since 10 until 12 May 2017. Human rights defenders and civil society activists both at home and abroad were eagerly awaiting this important event. It was the first trip of the UN official to this country and to Centra
11.05.2017 13:59 msk Analytics Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
In the photo to the left - Azamjon Farmonov before and during the imprisonment
10.05.2017 15:30 msk Analytics Central Asia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan
Problems with the conservation of saiga (or saiga antelope) in Uzbekistan have increased, while attention from the state has decreased. About this tells an open letter from the public representatives of the country to the chairman of the State Committee for Nature Protection (‘Goskompriroda’, since
09.05.2017 23:01 msk Ferghana Valley Human Rights Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
On 10 May 2017, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein arrives in Uzbekistan with a two-day visit after a long break. We offered several well-known human rights defenders and experts on the region to comment on this important event and suggest concerns that a high UN
05.05.2017 17:01 msk Analytics Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
The ‘Immortal Regiment’ action, which relatives and descendants of those killed at the fronts of the Great Patriotic War had been planning to organise and hold on 9 May 2017 in Tajikistan , was prohibited. One of the official reasons is that ‘according to Islamic traditions, it is inadmissible to go
28.04.2017 15:58 msk Analytics Ferghana Valley Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Migration Politics Religious life Russia Uzbekistan
Brothers and neighbours speak about Rakhmat Akilov in Uzbekistan and Abror and Akram Azimov brothers in Kyrgyzstan . A good childhood and obedience, law-abiding behaviour, positive reputation in the neighbourhood, diligence – such testimonials would make a decent citizen, but not terrorist.
27.04.2017 16:21 msk Arts Politics Uzbekistan
Art critic and expert of Central Asia Boris Chukhovich tells four paradoxical stories related to the competition on the monument to the first president of the country Islam Karimov that just ended in Uzbekistan .
21.04.2017 18:57 msk Business Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Gulyam and Sardor Umarov, natives of Uzbekistan, children of the formerly well-known opposition figure Sanjar Umarov, are currently engaged in large-scale technological projects in the U.S., while not forgetting their roots and developing business which is relevant with the interests of their homela
15.04.2017 10:03 msk Human Rights Migration Politics Religious life Uzbekistan
A reporter of Fergana was able to visit a mahalla (neighbourhood) in Samarkand where the relatives of Rakhmat Akilov live. Swedish police arrested Mr Akilov as the main suspect of a terrorist act in Stockholm early April.
10.03.2017 11:17 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Representatives of the US embassy and a number of international organisations were allowed to visit Yelena Urlayeva, the chairman of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan (HRAU), in her hospital room. However, there is no clarity as to justifications for subjecting her to forced psychiatric treatm
16.02.2017 22:32 msk Business Human Rights Uzbekistan
Things are going from bad to worse for Uzbekistan’s anticorruption whistleblower with a court ordering his confinement to a pretrial detention facility pending criminal hearings into corruption.
13.02.2017 00:02 msk Business Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Early February 2017, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree “On continued improvement of the institution of mahalla.”
31.01.2017 09:21 msk Afghanistan Central Asia Human Rights Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Migration Politics Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Uzbekistan
Neo-patrimonial regimes have been established in Central Asian countries following the implosion of the Soviet Union. The new elites divided entire economies and “sweet-spot” government positions between “bosses” and their “vassals.” Meanwhile, the rest of the society, who are excluded from such net
18.01.2017 10:09 msk Analytics Business Central Asia Cotton Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
The Harvard International Review 's January 2017 edition includes an academic article on problems with water supply in Central Asia. The article author Alisher Ilkhamov is Alisher Ilkhamov is a Research Associate at the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus at the School of Oriental and
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