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04:25 msk, 3 september 2010
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16.02.2010 15:36 msk
It has been twenty years since tragic events, no one remembers today for some reason. In February of 1990 dozens of people were killed and hundreds were injured in the dispersal of the opposition forces in the Tajik capital. The bloody event in Dushanbe became the prologue of the multi-year and big civil war in Tajikistan – one of the most bloody military conflicts in the post-Soviet area that killed hundreds of thousands people. In February of 1990 the political and military conflict was initiated in Tajikistan that continued through June of 1997.
16.07.2009 18:53 msk
Everything began with a call from friends in Europe. Resolved to adopt a child in Russia, they regularly scan the web sites featuring data on prospective kids (photos, ages, names). "How come there are so many abandoned children in Russia with Moslem names and Asian features?" they wanted to know once.
15.06.2009 11:36 msk
The heads of states comprising the Shanghai Cooperation Organization converge on Yekaterinburg for another, two-day, summit. The presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are coming from Moscow where they attended a meeting of the CIS Collective Security Council, yesterday. Chairman Hu Jintao is expected from Beijing. When the summit is over, Jintao will make a visit to Moscow, too.
30.04.2009 12:34 msk
Russia 88, a story of skinheads, is finally released. Officially certified, the film by Pavel Bardin is shunned by movie theaters. When it was to be run within the framework of Spirit of Fire film festival in Khanty-Mansiisk, organizers of the film festival got a call from the Kremlin. They were told in no uncertain terms that Russia 88 was to be left without the grand prix. The jury opted for a compromise then and gave Bardin's film a special award. Here is an interview with Pavel Bardin, author of the film that is bordering on being a taboo.
21.04.2009 09:38 msk
The second Moscow show of scandalous "Russia 88" movie, dedicated to Russian skinheads, was cancelled. According to the executive director and producer of the movie, Pavel Bardin, the reconsideration decision was made by the management of movie theater and not by the administration of Kinoteatr.Doc film festival, sponsoring the show. We contacted Pavel Bardin and agreed to take interview that will be posted in the next few days. For now, Ferghana.ru presents the article from Kultura newspaper, issued on April 16.
20.03.2009 15:32 msk
Today, the growth of religious tunes in Central Asia is viewed by experts as the time bomb and limited continuation of free development in these countries; even Soviet regime with its systematic atheism closed eyes to Islamic factor in Central Asian republics, viewing it as one of the public life regulators. Ferghana.ru interviewed the doctor of history sciences, professor, vice-President of Center for strategic and political research, chief research officer of Oriental Studies Institute, Irina Zvyagelskaya, on the reasons of religious influence growth in the region and possible hazards of Islamization.
26.02.2009 11:54 msk
Foundation conference of the movement International Union of Labor Immigration Support took place in Yekaterinburg (Urals) on February 21. Heydar Jemal, Russian Islamic Committee Chairman and movement leader, explained that Yekaterinburg had been chosen deliberately. First, this city is regarded as the center of Eurasia. Second, the first in Russia strike of labor immigrants in November 2008 took place in Yekaterinburg. Jemal told Ferghana.Ru what the tasks of the new movement were, what it had to offer to labor immigrants and Russian society in general, and who sponsors of the project were.
21.02.2009 15:00 msk
Ferghana.ru, one of the most popular independent sources for up-to-date news and analysis from Central Asia, launches Afisha – a comprehensive entertaining guide on Central Asia for the Russian audience, We’ve worked on this initiative for a while and now the time has come to launch it into the world. The xenophobia is growing in the Russian society. The indifference of the Russian ruling elite towards the neo-Nazis is shocking. There are so many Central Asian guest workers around thatthe Russians start feeling they are in Asia. Many associate Asia with the migrants they encounter those who don’t bother learning Russian, and the Chinese consumer goods. The image of Asia and the Asians is suffering badly and is looked upon with disdain. Our answer to this is No.
10.02.2009 13:06 msk
The extraordinary summits of EurAsEC and CSTO, which took place in Moscow on February 4th, have resulted in, at first glance, important decisions that require substantial financial investment and strong political will from the member countries. The “Ferghana.ru” correspondent interviewed Arkadiy Dubnov, the expert on Central Asia and international observer of “Vremya Novostey” newspaper, on whether it is possible to view the establishment of 10 billion US dollars antirecessionary fund and operational response collective forces as “advancement”.
05.02.2009 13:15 msk
Experts and political scientists comment on the intention of the president of Kyrgyzstan to close the NATO airbase. Here is an interview with Ajdar Kurtov, an expert with the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies.
29.01.2009 12:28 msk
The Moscow Carnegie Center organized a seminar "Eurasian Economic Community: Prospects of Development" on January 27. Organization Secretary General Tair Mansurov was present. Experts and journalists wanted to know why Uzbekistan would suspend membership in the Community and how the Community coped with complicated problems of integration between Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Belarus. Ferghana.Ru correspondents got the impression that the Eurasian Economic Community was a cumbersome structure established to handle nonpublic and nonpolitical issues.
26.01.2009 12:33 msk
President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Uzbekistan was ceremonial (no wonder, considering the highest possible status of the visit) and at the same time informal (when in Samarkand). The meeting did demonstrate exclusive nature of the Russian-Uzbek relations, just as organizers of the visit had intended. RIA-Novosti expert Sanobar Shermatova believes that the visit may be a prelude to revision of Moscow's whole policy in Central Asia.
21.01.2009 13:11 msk
Born in Tashkent businessman Alimjan Tokhtakhunov now lives in Moscow. He is better known as Taivanchik and recently wrote a book titled My Silk Road. Plot of the story begins with his arrest in Italy and ends with his release and return to Moscow. It is not a story of the ten months spent in Italian jail, it is a collection of reminiscences.
08.12.2008 10:18 msk
The Russian Movement of Development suggested New Middle East, a new geopolitical project. Founders of the movement maintain that Russian diplomacy should propose establishment of a new region that will comprise Russia, China, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Pakistan, and Central Asian countries. Industrialization of Afghanistan and Central Asian states will become Russia's number one task within the framework of the project.
01.12.2008 17:36 msk
KGinfo.ru was presented in Moscow as a web site for labor immigrants from Kyrgyzstan. Authors of the project believe that information posted on the web site will make adaptation in Russia easier. Contacts with labor immigrants as the target group is one of the main problems of the web site organizers. According to Egemberdiyev, Kyrgyz media outlets promised help with promotion of the web site. This correspondent was repeatedly told at the presentation ceremony that families of the Gastarbeiters working in Russia will be able to communicate with "their" relatives via the web site from "any Internet-cafe in Kyrgyzstan."
16:11 Russian investor Eventis Telecom returned the controlling stake of MegaCom mobile operator
Eurasianet Uzbekistan Celebrates Independence Day, 02.09.2010
RFE/RL Kyrgyz, Uzbek Talks On Release Of Kyrgyz Officers Unsuccessful , 02.09.2010
Forum 18 TAJIKISTAN: "Your children will become extremists and terrorists", 02.09.2010
OpEdNews Talibanization: The Whole Problem Is the Gawadar Port and Trade Route, 02.09.2010
RFE/RL Kyrgyz-Uzbek Talks Held On Release Of Kyrgyz Border Guards, 01.09.2010
Long war Journal Senior Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander targeted in northern Afghanistan, 30.08.2010
AP Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons, 28.08.2010
Guardian Kyrgyzstan: The void in Asia's heart, 27.08.2010
OpenDemocracy Beware of meddling in Kyrgyzstan!, 27.08.2010
New York Times Legacy of Torture, 27.08.2010
Eurasianet Tashkent Promoting Inter-Ethnic Unity, But Strengthening Security Forces Just in Case, 27.08.2010
AP German prosecutors charge suspected Islamic terrorist after extradition from Pakistan, 26.08.2010
Express Tribune India-Afghanistan talks wind up, 26.08.2010
RFE/RL Taliban Kill Nine Police In Afghan North, 26.08.2010
Reuters Karzai aide in corruption probe linked to CIA, 26.08.2010
Canadian Press UN agency makes unusual Pakistan aid appeal, while Washington pushes for transparency, 26.08.2010
Foreign Policy How to leave Afghanistan without losing, 25.08.2010
Washington Post 25 Islamic militants escape from Tajik prison, 23.08.2010
Euronews Osh protesters defy Kyrgyzstan government, 20.08.2010
Reuters Kremlin-led security bloc to hear Kyrgyz appeal, 19.08.2010
Forum 18 UZBEKISTAN: "The Court decided so", 19.08.2010
VOA Intimidation of Uzbek Minority Continues in Kyrgyzstan, 17.08.2010
RFE/RL Kyrgyz Officials Seek Release Of People Detained In Uzbekistan , 17.08.2010
Telegraph Osh mayor pushes ahead with plan to rehouse Uzbeks, 16.08.2010
Global Voices Kyrgyzstan: Nationalist agenda raises amidst new rallies , 16.08.2010
Eurasianet Mixed Marriages in Kyrgyzstan Strained by Ethnic Violence, 16.08.2010
Platts Afghanistan finds new oil field, holds 1.8 bil barrels: ministry, 15.08.2010
AFP Uzbek group attacks Afghan police, three dead, 15.08.2010
Long War Journal ISAF continues to ID 'foreign fighters' in Afghanistan, 15.08.2010
Eurasianet Uzbekistan Weekly Roundup, 15.08.2010
HRW Uzbekistan: Activist Hit With New Sentence, 14.08.2010
AFP South Kyrgyzstan forces may have used torture: UN rights, 20.07.2010
Eurasianet Reconstruction Plan To "Ethnically Cleanse" Osh, Uzbeks Fear, 20.07.2010
RFE/RL Kabul Wants To Change The Way Foreign Aid Is Spent , 20.07.2010
Ex Ponto Als Oezbeekse mahalla's in rook opgaan, 17.07.2010
Euronews Roza Otumbayeva: “We have the nation waiting to reconstruct itself”, 17.07.2010
CNN Thousands remain displaced after Kyrgyz violence, 16.07.2010
Eurasianet Tashkent’s Response to Kyrgyz Crisis Boosts Karimov’s Image, 16.07.2010
Asia Times Russia has reasons to stay its hand, 15.07.2010
New York Times In Southern Kyrgyzstan, Uzbeks Become Targets of Police Abuse, 15.07.2010
VOA A Relative Calm In Kyrgyzstan, 13.07.2010
Guardian Beware dictators bearing gifts, Naomi, 05.07.2010
RFE/RL Getting To The Roots Of Resentment In Kyrgyzstan, 05.07.2010
New York Times Uzbeks Accused of Inciting Violence in Kyrgyzstan, 02.07.2010
AP Kyrgyz humanitarian crisis enters new phase, 01.07.2010
Eurasianet The Pentagon Spreading Wealth in Central Asia, 30.06.2010
Moscow Times An Imitation Empire, 30.06.2010
ВВС Gen David Petraeus faces confirmation to lead Afgan war, 29.06.2010
Eurasianet Documents Highlight Problems with Uzbek Corridor of Afghan Supply Route, 29.06.2010
New York Times Kyrgyz Voting Appears Calm, 28.06.2010
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