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31.01.2007 08:48 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The Tashkent Municipal Court sentenced Kobuljon Obidov, former hokim or governor of the Andijan region, to a year imprisonment (sentence suspended). Some reports indicated that Obidov was charged with orchestration of the May 2005 events in Andijan.
17.01.2007 10:15 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Ferghana.Ru correspondents report the arrest of Gulbahor Turayeva, human rights activist from Andijan, at Checkpoint Dustlik on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border on January 14.
15.01.2007 13:04 msk Business Uzbekistan
Channel One of the Russian television is once again available without satellite dishes in the mining town of Angren in the south of the Tashkent region. Russian-speaking population of Angren has numbered thousands since the Soviet era. Mines are closed these days, sending the unemployment soaring an
15.01.2007 09:30 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Population of the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan keeps up protests against deterioration of living standards. Information on protest actions, however, is kept under the lid until much later.
12.01.2007 20:24 msk Interview Uzbekistan
Radical changes are under way in Uzbek agriculture. Large agricultural companies that replaced collective farms of the Soviet past are being divided into small farms on orders from the national leadership. Supervised by the state and hurried along by the administrative apparat, the process is actual
10.01.2007 13:03 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Imprisoned human rights activist Ihtiyor Hamroyev called his father Bahtiyor Hamroyev (Chairman of the Jizak regional organization of the Uzbek Society for Human Rights) on the phone to say that he had been coerced into giving false testimony in front of a videocam. Hamroyev was forced to denounce t
09.01.2007 13:24 msk Interview Uzbekistan
Political immigrants and refugees from Uzbekistan encounter numerous difficulties abroad. Their future is anything but clear. Unable to stand the predictably problematic period of adaptation, some of them succumb to official Tashkent's propaganda and return to Uzbekistan.
25.12.2006 11:24 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Press Center of the Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Activists reports that Jadgar Turlibekov, a prominent human rights activist from Kashkadarja, was amnestied on December 24, 2006.
08.12.2006 10:09 msk Business Uzbekistan
President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov received Aleksei Miller of Gazprom on December 7, 2006. Karimov and Miller discussed bilateral cooperation issued and new joint projects.
05.12.2006 18:45 msk Business Uzbekistan
Zeromax GmbH, one of the largest private companies in Uzbekistan that bought 16% of the British Oxus Gold stock, may help the Uzbek-British joint venture Amantaitau Goldfields with tax problems. (Oxus Gold owns 50% of Amantaitau Goldfields.)
01.12.2006 13:53 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
The mother of Georgy Alexandrov. Photo by Ferghana.Ru Two practically unrelated events took place in Uzbekistan on May 13, 2005. An armed rebellion was brutally crushed in Andijan. Israeli Embassy security in Tashkent shot an innocent passer-by who looked suspicious to them. What amounts to banal mu
30.11.2006 17:57 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
As Ferghana.Ru has already reported, Uzbek journalist Ruslan Sharipov is a political immigrant living in the United States. Much to his surprise, Sharipov encountered problems in this country. The US Immigration Service cannot (or wouldn't) legalize the Uzbek dissenter.
30.11.2006 17:53 msk Religious life Uzbekistan
While official Tashkent is telling everyone within earshot how nobody in Uzbekistan encroaches on the believers' rights, local authorities in the southern part of the country impose restrictions on religious life. Some restrictions were imposed by Ahmajan Usmonov, Andijan Hokim or Governor for just
29.11.2006 11:28 msk Ferghana Valley Uzbekistan
Uzbek and Kyrgyz topographers demarcating the state border between the two countries met in Andijan.
29.11.2006 11:26 msk Business Uzbekistan
Long-awaited restyling of Daewoo Nexia, something it needs desperately, is postponed. UzDaewooAuto lacks the money for the project. Now that the Uzbek assembly factory in Andijan may be sold to a new investor, however, it may never get down to the project at all.
22.11.2006 10:33 msk Business Uzbekistan
Foreign investors in Uzbek economy may now forget about appeals to international courts in the hope to defend themselves, thanks to the verdict of the Constitutional Court of Uzbekistan (November 20).
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