Central Asia news
02.11.2009 15:25 msk
Conference "Germany - Central Asia: partnership for security strategies" is under way in the capital of Tajikistan. Representative of security structures from Central Asian countries, Germany, Afghanistan, Pakistan take part. Their opposite numbers from Russia, China, France, Italy, Canada, United States, Great Britain, and Ukraine are observers. Representatives of international organizations (Interpol, UN Development Programme, OSCE, and European Union) are present too. Expected activeness of Talib gunmen on the Afghani-Uzbek and Afghani-Tajik borders is discussed.
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- Uzbekistan: The students in the Tashkent Oblast do not go to secondary schools (photo)
- Uzbek field chronicle-2009: the Syr Darya children
- Uzbekistan: Surkhandarya students pick cotton, ones in Ferghana continue their studies
- Uzbekistan: "Wanted" Posters All Over Tashkent
- Tashkent's jubilee. It happens once every 2,200 years
- "Uzbek militants are becoming very active in Waziristan" - Senator Ibrahim Khan
- Marijuana in Kazakhstan. Not to Be Destroyed but Used
- The schools in Uzbekistan see sharp deficit of textbooks
- Skirmish in Tashkent. Attempt at live commentary
- Uzbekistan: Unassailable pest of the Aral Sea
- Ferghana.Ru: 10 years of news-wire
- The president of Tajikistan is preparing the successor
- Turkmenistan, lost in the desert - routine life for centuries
- The Turkmenbashi won the election in Kyrgyzstan
- Dosym Satpayev: Uzbekistan is one of the major destabilization factors in the region
- Uzbekistan: Human rights society calls for justice
- The winner is known, but the opponents still struggle
- Children of immigrants
- Tajikistan: Irrecoverable Losses
- The last of the allies
- Uzbekistan: "Rabble-rousers" are not welcome in the Parliament
- Uzbekistan: The monuments of classical writers of oriental literature are removed in Samarqand
- Outstanding schemers. Moscow and Bishkek played out the Manas intrigue to the end
- Modern election campaigning and propaganda in Kyrgyzstan
- Stalin’s monument in Kazakh village found its place
- The Moon-Faced, a film by Nazym Abbasov, is conquering the world
- Japanese army prisoners in Tajikistan: Slave labor for good memory
- The Pentagon Goes out of Its Way to Retain the Airbase in Kyrgyzstan
- Russia: SCO Summit Promises to be "Afghani"
- Shootings at Kyrgyz-Uzbek border
- Ferghana Events: 20 years later. History without a lesson?
- Tajikistan: Survival through revival of ancient crafts
- NATO airbase in Kyrgyzstan: Leaving or staying
- The Great Wall: The government of Uzbekistan to take total control over Internet
- The residents of Chek village in the border area are asking to relocate them to Kyrgyzstan
- Arkady Dubnov: The Afghanis tolerate armed occupiers but it is getting increasingly more difficult to do so
- Art photo in Uzbekistan: Negative outweighs positive
- The invasion of gypsy moth in the capital of Uzbekistan
- Kazakhstan: The prohibited book of Rakhat Aliyev does not pose as much hazard
- Soviet-Era Uranium Waste Sites Now Threaten Central Asia
- Uzbek Gastarbeiters learn new trades in the United States
- Most prominent lawyers in Uzbekistan to lose their licenses for unprofessional performance
- Miroslav Niyazov: We have acute shortage of political forces, able to lead the country out of crisis
- Kyrgyzstan: Three journalists became the winners of Alisher Saipov annual award
- Uzbekistan: How to get rid of unwanted journalist?
- Central Asian republics remained the same status in a row of Not free states
- Kyrgyzstan: New Agreement on Kumtor Divides Kyrgyz Elites
- Pavel Bardin: It is possible to bring skinheads round
- Uzbekistan: The advocacy becomes the part of executive authorities
- Uzbekistan: Tulips help Shakhrisabz residents to survive
- Examination of allies: What side of the fence will Moscow take in the water dispute?
- Uzbekistan: The monument of people’s friendship, replaced to the suburb of Tashkent, runs wild
- Russia: No two runs in a row
- Tajikistan: Nobody cares of disabled children, except for their parents
- Uzbekistan is rehearsing eventual withdrawal from the CIS Collective Security Treaty Organization
- Relations between Iran and Central Asia (Synopsis)
- Kazakhstan: Cyber terrorists attack the independent press
- Boris Akunin: If they do not want me to write a book, dedicated to Uzbekistan in the beginning of the century, I am not going to
- Kazakhstan: Construction sector still reeling despite government's bail-out package
- Kyrgyzstan: The opposition forces demand the resignation of Kurmanbek Bakiev
- Edil Baisalov: The mission of the next President is to clean up the political area, establish new game rules and leave
- Turkmenistan and Russia will make new gas agreements
- Irina Zvyagelskaya: People come to Islamic radicals in despair
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- The kids in the remote regions of Tajikistan do not even have access to elementary education
- Kyrgyzstan: Internal Affairs Ministry Head to take personal control over the assault of Reporter journalist
- Uzbekistan: Russian and international organizations are defending the arrested activist
- International Union of Labor Immigration Support established in Russia
- Ferghana.ru launches a comprehensive guide on Central Asia for the Russians
- People, accused for the affiliation to the “Nur” religious movement, are convicted in Uzbekistan
- “Tablighi Jamaat”: Hidden threat of peaceful preach
- Uzbek oppositionist travels USA to find associates
- Arkadiy Dubnov: «The countries, lacking the culture of discussion, are not able to cooperate»
- For the first time the works of Abdulkhamid Chulpon are published in Russian language
- Ajdar Kurtov: I wouldn't call this base a real pain in the neck for Russia
- Photographer Rena Effendi: I'd like to go back to Osh and discover what happened to these people
- Tajikistan-Russia: Demarche as Rakhmon's answer to Medvedev
- Eurasian Economic Comunity: Forget illusions
- Medvedev's visit to Tashkent is extremely opportune
- Uzbekistan: Students prohibited to approach the US Embassy in Tashkent
- Turkmenistan: Unknown struggle with dope
- Alimjan Tokhtakhunov and his Silk Road
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan as a Ministry of Propaganda
- Kyrgyzstan: Is President Kurmanbek Bakiyev trading the US Army for Russian dollars?
- Uzbekistan: echo of the Kagan explosions reverberates throughout the Bukhara region (see photo)
- Do the Uzbek-Turkish relations get more cordial? Even if they do, the process is slow
- Uzbekistan: Muhammad Salikh is working on an Orange Revolution
- Kyrgyzstan: Criminal charges to be fabricated against the opposition
- Uzbekistan: The authorities circumvented a French and German film show at the Museum of Cinematograph in Tashkent
- Yuri Krupnov: Russia should industrialize Afghanistan and Central Asian countries
- The passion of the hunter-president, or About our rams
- Russia: New web site for Gastarbeiters from Kyrgyzstan presented in Moscow
- Uzbekistan's withdrawal from the Eurasian Economic Cooperation Organization will help Tajikistan solve some of its problems
- The more the demand, the better off the vendor: Golden rule of Oriental bazaars
- Project of a super canal connecting the Kara Sea and the Persian Gulf presented in Tashkent
- Antonietta Gobbis: I can do things in Tashkent that I cannot do in my hometown of Florence
- An update on Moscow's position with regard to negotiations with Taliban
- Why Uzbekistan suddenly decided to withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Community
- Uzbekistan: Farmers are against land reforms
- Tajikistan: Fields of Nightmares
- Uzbekistan: Fashion 2008
- Kazakhstan: Nazarbaev Announced his Anti-Corruption Plan
- Uzbekistan’s president goes unpunished
- No justice for Alisher
- Uzbekistan: Shock at journalist's ten year prison sentence
- Uzbekistan: harvest by force
- Sean Kao: “Music, Not Politics is More Effective in Struggle for Peace”
- Elin Jönsson: “Uzbek Authorities Coined New Truth about Andijan”
- Uzbekistan: Children Continue to Work on Cotton Fields despite Official Ban
- Turkmenistan: Facts and Rumors about Shooting in Ashgabat
- Central Asia: Doing Business is Easiest in Kyrgyzstan – report
- Turkmen President Tightens Grip on Power with New Constitution
- Kyrgyzstan: Energy Crisis Challenges Bakiev’s Presidency
- Bush to Shift Troops to Afghanistan From Iraq
- Uzbekistan: Low River Levels Threaten Syrdarya Biodiversity
- Ferghana.ru Remembers Alisher Saipov on His Birthday
- Russia Succeeds in Securing Central Asia as Its Political and Energy Stronghold
- Tajikistan Hopes Water will Power its Growth
- Uzbekistan Open for Dialogue over Child Labour in Cotton Fields – Officials
- Cautious China "Concerned" Over Georgia
- Uzbekistan: Chemical Poisoning Likely in Blast Torn City of Kagan
- Kyrgyz Deputy Blames Department of Civil Aviation for Airplane Crash
- Ancient Minguruk Settlement to be Temporarily Closed
- Kyrgyz Prime-Minister: “My Premiership in Hands of Ak Jol Party”
- US and EU Companies Urge Uzbekistan to End Child Labour on Cotton Fields
- Kyrgyz Rights Activists Support Georgia’s Withdrawal from CIS
- Kyrgyz Authorities to Cut Uzbek Language Programs
- Kyrgyzstan Geopolitical Balance Complicates as International Polarization Grows over South Ossetia
- Instability in Central Asia Could be Deadly for Afghanistan
- China-Central Asia Railroad Faces Economic, Political Risks
- Central Asian States Should Start Negotiations over Water, Give Up Rigid Positions
- Kyrgyzstan: Nine Medics Found Guilty for Infecting Children with HIV
- Director of Cement Plant Pursues Libel Charges, Denies Wrongdoing
- Questions Remain Despite Clarifications on Arms Seizure from US Diplomats House
- UNESCO World Heritage: Samarkand Needs Reinforced Monitoring
- Uzbek Officials Did Not Confirm Ban of HRW Representative
- Kyrgyzstan: Energy Crisis Hits Hard Small Businesses
- Drought Forces Kazak Farmers Slaughter Cattle by Lump
- Chinese Government Concerned about Hizb ut-Tahrir in Xinjiang
- Kyrgyzstan Denies Using Regional Water Resources for its own Benefit
- Another Libel Suit Against Press Brought in Kyrgyzstan
- Uzbekistan: HRW Representative Banned with No Right of Return
- Uzbek Capital Pompous Renovations are Costly
- Matthew Pringle: “Torture in Uzbekistan Hard to Eliminate Under Current Regime”
- Uzbek Official: Human Rights Impede Crime Detection
- Uzbekistan: President Blames Soviet Government, Defence Ministry for Blasts
- Ministry of Agriculture: Kyrgyzstan is Out of Danger From Food Crisis
- Kazakhstan: Tougher Laws Needed To Prevent Labour Abuse, Slavery
- Kazakhstan: Wanderer Centre Brings Hope, Healing to Homeless
- Tajik authorities seek to improve the image of the country
- Central Asia: Water Shortage Due to Lack of Regional Agreements, Prompt Decision-Making
- Uzbek Authorities Toughen Censure, Remain Silent about Blasts
- Last Independent Political Analyst Leaves Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan: People to Pay for Energy Crisis
- Uzbekistan: Blast Victims Out of Danger
- Bukhara Hospitals Packed with Wounded from Night Explosions, Eyewitness Says
- Human Rights Watch Continues to Seek Accreditation in Uzbekistan
- Koksaray Water Reservoir Project Continues To Attract Heated Debate
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