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Eurasia Review
April 6, 2018
After all, the backbone of the KIB is made up of people from the Ferghana Valley of Central Asia, mainly of Uzbek nationality. According to the Soufan Group, out of 5,000 people who left Central Asia for Syria and Iraq, about 500 jihadists in the ISIS ranks went back to their homes. But among the returnees,Ãâà...
Modern Diplomacy
April 5, 2018
After all, the backbone of the KIB is made up of people from the Ferghana Valley of Central Asia, mainly of Uzbek nationality. According to the Soufan Group, out of 5,000 people who left Central Asia for Syria and Iraq, about 500 jihadists in the ISIS ranks went back to their homes. But among the returnees,Ãâà...
EurasiaNet
March 26, 2018
"In the villages of the Ferghana Valley, especially in winter, people are suffering from a shortage of electricity,” said Munavvar Ibragimova, a reporter based in the Ferghana Valley. “You should not be selling electricity abroad before you can provide for your own population. What we clearly see here is theÃâà...
EurasiaNet
March 22, 2018
Uzbekistan Railways currently offers routes from Tashkent to Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Ufa. There is also a train from Andijan, in the Ferghana Valley, to Moscow. The need for the provision of safe options for long-distance travel to Russia acquired fresh urgency in January when an agingÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 15, 2018
The tension has been sharpest in the densely populated Ferghana Valley, where Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan converge. The latter two states accused their larger Uzbek neighbour of guzzling river water to irrigate vast cotton fields; Uzbekistan, for its part, bitterly fought Kyrgyz and Tajik plans toÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 14, 2017
Megoran adds that "territorial exchanges have been reasonably successful on the Arabian Peninsula, but unlike the Ferghana Valley [of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan], those [land swaps] were not densely populated or cultivated areas, so disruption was minimal." "[An] exchange [of territory] would not beÃâà...
EurasiaNet
October 31, 2017
Uzbekistan: Without Forced Labor, Who'll Pick the Cotton? Joanna Lillis Oct 31, 2017. Women pick cotton in Uzbekistan's part of the Ferghana Valley. Uzbek authorities appear to be mulling doing away with forced labor in cotton fields, but some experts say for that to happen, a total overhaul of the cotton sector is needed.
Railway Gazette International
April 26, 2017
UZBEKISTAN: The Asian Development Bank has approved a US$80m loan towards a US$177m project to electrify 145Ãâ÷1 km of single track line linking Pap, Namangan and Andijon in the Ferghana Valley. Completion is planned for the second quarter of 2020. The ADB loan will finance supervisionÃâà...
Trend News Agency
December 31, 1999
The road passing through the village of Sary-Tash and the Irkeshtam in Kyrgyzstan is the shortest automobile route from Uzbekistan's Ferghana Valley to China. The Afghan side intends to send its cargoes from Mazar-i-Sharif along the already established railway up to Andijan, then reload them to trucksÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
The Uzbek-Kyrgyz and Uzbek-Tajik borders were where most of the violence used to occur along borders in the Ferghana Valley, but that is no longer true. That dubious distinction currently seems to belong to the Kyrgyz-Tajik border. What are the causes of the continued friction along the Kyrgyz-TajikÃâà...
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