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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,ÃÂ ...
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,ÃÂ ...
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 theÃÂ ...
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 agingÃÂ ...
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 toÃÂ ...
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 beÃÂ ...
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 145÷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 supervisionà...
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 trucksÃÂ ...
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-TajikÃÂ ...
The Statesman
February 23, 2018
Cadres of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) under their leader Juma Namangani had been making sizeable inroads into the Ferghana Valley. On the border with Tajikistan the Russians had an understaffed, under-equipped and dispirited skeleton of its motorized division. Ahmed Shah MasudÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
February 12, 2018
The spigot to international media was tightly closed after the events of May 2005 in Andijan, when an uprising in the Ferghana Valley city was crushed by government troops. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's ascent to power after September 2016 hinted at a gentle opening-up to alternative viewpoints.
Trend News Agency
February 3, 2018
The issues of improving the environmental situation and environmental protection in Uzbekistan were considered at a meeting chaired by the country's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the presidential press service told Trend. During the meeting it was stressed that in accordance with the presidential decree,ÃÂ ...
AzerNews
February 3, 2018
The issues of improving the environmental situation and environmental protection in Uzbekistan were considered at a meeting chaired by the country's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the presidential press service told Trend. During the meeting it was stressed that in accordance with the presidential decree,ÃÂ ...
DailyO
January 25, 2018
The Mughals received travellers from the Ferghana Valley politely, enquired about the well-being of the people there and perhaps even gave some money for the upkeep of the graves of their Chingizid ancestors, but they stopped seeing their original homeland as home. By the second generation, let aloneÃÂ ...
Astana Times
January 23, 2018
All 52 people killed in the fire were men and the majority were natives of Namangan, one of the Uzbek regions located in the Ferghana Valley in far eastern part of the country. The youngest passenger was 19 years old. A government commission was set up to investigate the circumstances and causes ofÃÂ ...
The Northlines
January 22, 2018
She evinced marginal interest in terrorism outside the boundaries of the Federation except when Tajik republic was faced with threat from the Taliban or the Ferghana valley then simmering with Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan or Hizbu't Tahrir. In post-Soviet period India and Russia saw some souring ofÃÂ ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 21, 2018
Traces the impact of Central Asians on Chinese and Russian empire through a history of a khanate established in the Ferghana Valley, a region spanning parts of modern Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Theodore Roosevelt's Ghost: The History and Memory of an American Icon by Michael PatrickÃÂ ...
Daily Excelsior
January 21, 2018
She evinced marginal interest in terrorism outside the boundaries of the Federation except when Tajik republic was faced with threat from the Taliban or the Ferghana valley then simmering with Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan or Hizbu't Tahrir. In post-Soviet period India and Russia saw some souring ofÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
January 21, 2018
“It's not the horse the presidents sent to China,” Chen said. “They sent the dream of emperor Wu.” Known as Han Xue Ma, or the 'sweat blood horse', the Akhal-teke has roots in the Ferghana Valley. It originally was imported to China by emperor Wu, who believed that its traits would position the dynasty forÃÂ ...
Scoop News
January 20, 2018
She evinced marginal interest in terrorism outside the boundaries of the Federation except when Tajik republic was faced with threat from the Taliban or the Ferghana valley then simmering with Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan or Hizbu't Tahrir. In post-Soviet period India and Russia saw some souring of relations but ModiÃÂ ...
GlacierHub
January 19, 2018
This is primarily related to the Ferghana Valley triangle where three states, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan share common challenges and complex concerns.” Pamir Highlands, Bulunkul Village, Central Asia (Source: Ronan Shenhav/Flickr). The study highlights several major areas where moreÃÂ ...
Railway Gazette International
January 16, 2018
Termez locomotive depot was also modernised. Elsewhere, tenders have been called for electrification of the 145 km single track line linking Pap, Namangan and Andijon in the Ferghana Valley, which has been directly connected to the rest of the Uzbek network since the opening of the electrified AngrenÃÂ ...
SteelGuru
January 2, 2018
The Uzbek Foreign Ministry reported that Tashkent will host a tripartite meeting on the construction of the China - Kyrgyzstan - Uzbekistan (CKU) railway on December 27. The Chinese delegation is headed by Deputy General Director of the Department of the State Committee for Development and ReformsÃÂ ...
AzerNews
December 27, 2017
The line would start in Kashgar, in China's western Xinjiang Autonomous Uyghur Region, and run through Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan's eastern town of Pap, in Uzbekistan's section of the Ferghana Valley. According to the preliminary estimates, the reduction of the route from East Asia to the countries of theÃÂ ...
Trend News Agency
December 25, 2017
"The raw material was provided by farmers from the Ferghana Valley, where farms for breeding ostriches are located. Ostrich leather is known for its strength and elasticity. The unique pattern makes it exotic and unique. The products made from this leather are referred to premium items," the source said.
Dispatch News Desk
December 23, 2017
This track will link western Xinjiang Autonomous Uyghur Region with Uzbekistan through Kyrgyzstan, minimizing the dependence of China on China-Afghanistan route. Railway Line will arrive at Ferghana Valley of Uzbekistan from where it will be linked with Uzbek-Afghan track. It is pertinent to mentionÃÂ ...
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 beÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
October 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. (Photo: Peretz Partensky via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0). Uzbekistan'sÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
October 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. (Photo: Peretz Partensky via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0). Uzbekistan'sÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
June 28, 2017
And Atambaev said he wants the base in Kyrgyzstan's southernmost Batken Province, in Kyrgyzstan's section of the Ferghana Valley, bordering Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In fact, Atambaev said that, if Tajikistan "can't contain the situation [along the Afghan border], it will reach our borders." The KyrgyzÃÂ ...
Railway Gazette International
April 26, 2017
UZBEKISTAN: The Asian Development Bank has approved a US$80m loan towards a US$177m project to electrify 145÷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 supervisionà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 3, 2016
Incidents along the borders in the Ferghana Valley -- shared by Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan -- are common. Violence has broken out on occasion along various sections of the confusing frontiers. Border guards have exchanged fire, and local communities on opposite sides of the border haveÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
June 17, 2010
Recently, that competition has only sharpened as the global economic downturn has narrowed the impoverished Ferghana Valley's pressure valve: outmigration of labor. In past years, thousands of valley residents have gone to Russia and Kazakhstan to work as laborers and send back remittances. NowÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
December 31, 1999
The first time I visited, I shared a minibus with the owner of a teahouse in the Ferghana Valley who had brought all his staff on pilgrimage. The mainly Uzbek population of Sayram is fond of repeating the aphorism that “there is no counting the saints in Sayram.” The town is dotted with mosques and shrines,ÃÂ ...
Eurasia Review
December 8, 2017
Babur, the founder of Mughal dynasty in India, travelled from the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan to India in 1526. In more recent times, Indian culture, dance, music, films, yoga etc have been extremely popular in Uzbekistan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Mirziyoyev in Astana on the sidelines ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 7, 2017
Today the Ferghana Valley is a fertile agricultural area, the home of many cotton growers and exporters to Russia and China – and other SCO countries. It is trade outside of the dollar dominion. And of course, Uzbekistan like the rest of Eurasia is part of China's President Xi's NEW Silk Road project, the One ...
AzerNews
December 7, 2017
“In addition to the existing routes Almaty-Tashkent and Astana-Tashkent, we plan to open new routes, such as Samarkand-Almaty, Bukhara-Almaty, Bukhara-Astana next year,” he said. It is also planned to open a route in the direction of the Ferghana Valley. “It will be three airports. We will choose one of ...
Wicked Local Wayland
December 6, 2017
Bukhara, Samarkand, Kiva and Margilan – these Uzbekistan cities along with the Ferghana Valley were some of the most important stops along the ancient Silk Road trading routes between China and Europe. They bear the footprints of Alexander the Great, Tamerlane, Genghis Khan and Stalin. Here, the ...
Transitions Online
November 29, 2017
In 1989, the Soviet military evacuated 17,000 Meskhetian Turks from the Ferghana Valley and 90,000 more emigrated over the next two year, EurasiaNet says. Most of eastern Ukraine's Meskhetian Turks fled their homes in 2014 after the conflict between government forces and separatists broke out, with ...
Greater Kashmir
November 23, 2017
The first thing I saw when I entered the main hall was a 19th century molded lattice from the Margilan Mosque of Ferghana Valley. I immediately recognized the pattern on it as my shash tulani of Kashmir. Long-lost cousins, as my younger self had rightly imagined, do look exactly like each other! I saw this ...
EurasiaNet
November 16, 2017
Sanat Sadikov, a taxi driver in the Ferghana Valley town of Kokand, said. But the owner of one gas station in the city of Karshi, in southern Uzbekistan, assured Eurasianet.org that the shortage was real, not artificially created. “They only deliver four tons of gas per week from the fuel distribution center.
Transitions Online
November 3, 2017
... proclaiming an autonomous government of the Muslims of Turkestan, with a capital in the cotton-rich city of Kokand in the Ferghana Valley.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 3, 2017
The nexus of Islamist radicalism in Central Asia is the Ferghana Valley, where Uzbekistan borders with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. “Lack of ...
Egypttoday (blog)
November 2, 2017
... had also lived there, receiving temporary identity papers in the town of Uzgen, which lies in the sometimes volatile Ferghana Valley, in 2004.
The Times
November 2, 2017
... in April, killing 15 people, was from Osh. The city lies in the Ferghana valley, which stretches through Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, ...
EurasiaNet
October 26, 2017
... proclaiming an autonomous government of the Muslims of Turkestan, with a capital in the cotton-rich city of Kokand in the Ferghana Valley.
The Wire
October 18, 2017
They had come from the Ferghana valley and were proud of their lineage, for they had lost everything but won it again in Hindustan when ...
The Press, York
October 16, 2017
It is made by craftspeople, mostly women, in the Tashkent, Ferghana Valley and the Navoi Region. The company is a social enterprise, with a ...
Town Topics
October 11, 2017
In 2007, Cook received a Fulbright Scholarship to study the Islamic youth culture in the Ferghana Valley of Kyrgyzstan. He has served as an ...
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