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24.11.2015 22:49 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
When Uzbekistan has finally released well-known politician Murad Jurayev, who spent 21 years behind bars, very few naively thought the move was an indication of the Islam Karimov regime’s weakening after a quarter-century state-sponsored elimination of its critics and opponents. Only several days la
12.11.2015 18:49 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Fergana just learnt Murad Jurayev, a well-known Uzbekistani oppositional political prisoner, has been released from prison on November 12. The photograph below was made almost immediately after his release and is post on Facebook.
12.11.2015 01:51 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan
Activists of the Ezgulik human rights advocacy society visited November 10 Murad Jurayev in prison. Mr Jurayev is a former MP and ex-mayor of a city in Kashkadarya Region (Uzbekistan), who has been imprisoned for over two decades.
04.11.2015 02:15 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
This fatigued man is well into his seventh decade. He was a boss of this or that kind more than half of his life. For a quarter-century he was under the rule of the despised others in Soviet times, and he has been Boss No. 1 in an independent country for almost the same number of years. At this time
02.11.2015 20:57 msk Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
Fire broke out in the house of Dmitriy Tikhonov, a journalist and rights advocate, and destroyed part of the house and property in the town of Yangiabad 15km from the city of Angren in Tashkent Region on October. The cause of fire is unknown at this time. The house owner learnt about the fire only o
22.10.2015 13:31 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Uzbekistan
According to many employees of state-funded institutions, who have been forcefully sent to cotton fields in Uzbekistan , they manually collected the entire harvest of cotton this year. They report seeing not even one cotton-picking machine throughout the whole period of their work on the fields. Mea
15.10.2015 10:51 msk Analytics Business Politics Uzbekistan
Another important “threshold” has been passed in the Uzbek currency market: the US dollar now trades at over 5,000 soums. Illegal currency converters on the market are purchasing the US dollar at 4,950 soums and selling at 5,030. Thus, the value of the Uzbek national currency dropped 45.7% since the
06.10.2015 23:01 msk Business Kyrgyzstan Russia Uzbekistan
During its entire quarter-century independence period, Kyrgyzstan constantly had to hold challenging negotiations with Uzbekistan on the conditions of supply and delivery of natural gas by the latter. This gas cabbala may soon come to its end: Gazprom’s engineers are completing the blueprints of the
29.09.2015 01:32 msk Analytics Business Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
According to information Fergana obtained from several sources, thousands of residents of the city of Angren in Tashkent Region of Uzbekistan are engaged in this year’s cotton-picking campaign. The area is of particular interest because its one of the sites the World Bank has financed a project. One
23.09.2015 22:38 msk Central Asia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan
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23.09.2015 13:39 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan
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18.09.2015 00:59 msk Afghanistan Analytics Business Central Asia China Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
We discussed Russia’s “southward turn”, a much-discussed topic lately, with Vladimir Milov, a well-known Russian economist, politician and Demokraticheskiy Vybor Party Chairman. After all, the roads to “long monies” that are vital for any economy’s survival are closed in the Europe-bound directions.
16.09.2015 12:14 msk Business Human Rights Uzbekistan
The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights published “Silk Noose on Uzbek Farmers’ Neck,” which sheds light on 1) the use of forced labour in silk cocoon production in Uzbekistan and 2) centralised approach on the cocoon production and government monopoly, which impose production quotas on the farmers
04.09.2015 11:18 msk Arts Russia Uzbekistan
The Savitsky Arts Museum in Nukus and construction on 3 Sep 2015; © Fergana.Ru
02.09.2015 00:59 msk Analytics Arts Central Asia Human Rights Russia Uzbekistan
The director of the legendary Savitsky Art Museum in Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Marinika Babanazarova, was recently fired; no new director has been appointed yet. Ms Babanazarova’s colleagues and friends are collecting signatures and writing letters in protest to the government and president of Uzbekist
30.08.2015 02:07 msk Afghanistan Central Asia China Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Uzbekistan
The so-called Islamic State (IS) group is one of the major threats to peace and stability in the world today, having caused so much speculation around this abbreviation. We believe it is simply necessary to interview one of the leading Russian experts on the matters of the Arab world. Aleksandr Shum
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