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Open Democracy
February 5, 2018
They extorted lavish bribes from Western companies seeking to do business in Uzbekistan. His eldest daughter, Gulnara Karimova, extorted hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes from international telecom companies. She laundered this money through dozens of offshore companies. Now the US hasÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 3, 2018
It looks like Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev is now alone at the pinnacle of power in Uzbekistan, but it took nearly 18 months and a lot of work. ... In the first two months of 2017, Mirziyoev replaced provincial police chiefs in Navoi, Jizzakh, Andijon, and Tashkent provinces, chief prosecutors in severalÃÂ ...
Eurasia Daily
February 1, 2018
Today, January 31, will go into contemporary history of Uzbekistan – President Shavkat Mirziyoyev dismissed Rustam Inoyatov, head of the National Security Services (NSS), after over 20 years of work on that post. According to first-hand reports, the president arrived at the NSS head office, where heÃÂ ...
New Europe
January 31, 2018
Uzbekistan, which had cultivated warmer ties with the West in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in New York, became a pariah-state after Andijan. The European Union and the US slapped most of the political, security, and security service leadership with crippling sanctions, including travel limitations. KarimovÃÂ ...
Trend News Agency
January 27, 2018
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China discussed the cooperation in the field of international road transport at the trilateral meeting held in Tashkent on Jan.24-25, the Uzbek Agency for Road and River Transport reported. The meeting participants focused on issues of the formation of theÃÂ ...
AzerNews
January 22, 2018
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Uzbek Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Jamshid Kuchkarov discussed the construction of the ... “It will be possible to get from Afghanistan to China in three days through Uzbekistan's Andijan city due to the project implementation," he noted.
AzerNews
January 21, 2018
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China will hold a tripartite meeting on the implementation of the agreement on the international road transport, the Uzbek ... The new transport corridor Tashkent - Andijan (Uzbekistan) - Osh - Irkeshtam (Kyrgyzstan) - Kashgar (China) is the shortest automobile route from theÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
December 31, 1999
Weeks before Uzbekistan's president shoved the head of the security services out of his post, the secretive body was stripped of its elite armed units, RFE/RL's Uzbek service has reported. Radio Ozodlik cited an officer with the National Security Service, or SNB, as saying the special units, which by at leastÃÂ ...
The Diplomat
December 31, 1999
An IMU splinter group, the Islamic Jihad Union, staged a bombing campaign in Uzbekistan in 2004, and the fatal 2005 protest in Andijan may have been inspired by Islamists; but, in the words of a former U.S. ambassador, the country is “actually a pretty safe place.” Uzbek President Shavkat MirziyoyevÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
A group of self-exiled Uzbek activists has urged British sculptor Paul Day not to erect a statue in Moscow honoring Uzbekistan's former authoritarian leader, ... The letter accuses Karimov of ordering “the massacre of hundreds of peaceful protesters in Andijon in 2005” and says that those who have tried toÃÂ ...
The Express Tribune (blog)
October 29, 2017
Warm people, inexpensive food, beautiful culture – Uzbekistan truly is a treasure ... Uzbekistan's official language is Uzbek, which is spoken by majority of its .... by an extended family from Andijan, another city in Uzbekistan.
Forum 18
October 28, 2017
UZBEKISTAN: Book banning, censorship, illegal fines, reprisals ... And an Andijan Protestant has also been ordered to pay the same fine for ...
Human Rights Watch
October 27, 2017
Uzbekistan is going through a reform shake-up under president Shavkat ... by government security forces in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan in ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
October 27, 2017
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that Uzbek authorities have taken ... the crackdown in 2005 in the eastern city of Andijon, where government ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
October 9, 2017
Yusupov, the head of the Ulugnor district in Uzbekistan's Andijon region, had been berated during a local cotton-harvest meeting that included ...
EurasiaNet
October 6, 2017
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan Ink Era-Defining Partnership Deal ... as Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev stated during his own visit to Kyrgyzstan in September. ... in southern Kyrgyzstan, to Andijan and Tashkent, in Uzbekistan.
CPJ Press Freedom Online
October 5, 2017
Uzbek journalist goes missing, turns up in court trial ... order" of Uzbekistan and is in the custody of Uzbekistan's National Security Service (SNB), ... crackdown on antigovernment protesters in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan.
The Jamestown Foundation
October 3, 2017
Following the death of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov, ... the tragic events in Andijan, where, on May 13, 2005, Uzbekistan's security forces ... Ivanov said that “the first Russian-Uzbek exercises should not be the last.
The Guardian
October 2, 2017
Are decades of political repression making way for an 'Uzbek spring'? ... Anyone who protested risked the fate of demonstrators in the city of Andijan, ... They recently visited Uzbekistan, and the sight of Uzbek ministers ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
The Uzbek-language weekly, which was distributed both in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, stopped publishing after Saipov was shot dead in ...
The Jamestown Foundation
October 4, 2017
Russia and Uzbekistan Hold First Joint Military Exercise in 12 Years, Plan ... after the tragic events in Andijan, where, on May 13, 2005, Uzbekistan's security ... said that “the first Russian-Uzbek exercises should not be the last.
The Guardian
October 3, 2017
Are decades of political repression making way for an 'Uzbek spring'? ... Anyone who protested risked the fate of demonstrators in the city of Andijan, ... They recently visited Uzbekistan, and the sight of Uzbek ministersÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
September 27, 2017
In 2016, an imam at an Andijan mosque publicly condemned the book, ... Speaking to EurasiaNet.org, another Uzbek writer, KarimberdiÃÂ ...
The Jamestown Foundation
September 18, 2017
But Uzbekistan's new head of state, Shavkat Mirziyaev, ... offices of Osh region in Kyrgyzstan and Andijan in Uzbekistan; and between the twoÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
September 14, 2017
Kyrgyz women wait to cross into Uzbekistan at the Dostyk border crossing ... Kyrgyz province of Osh and the eastern Uzbek province of Andijon.
EurasiaNet
September 12, 2017
Uzbekistan is cutting back on its cotton cultivation to make way for fruit and ... As the head of the Uzbek Agrarian Industrial Holding, Nodir ... Jizzak, Andijan regions and the Republic of Karakalpakstan,” the group said.
EurasiaNet
September 9, 2017
Addressing the crowd, the governor of Uzbekistan's Andijan region, Shukhratbek Abdurakhmanov, promised that border-crossing proceduresÃÂ ...
TRT World
September 8, 2017
Hizb was also blamed for backing a civil uprising in Uzbekistan's Andijon city, a regional capital in the country's east, where the governmentÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
September 7, 2017
Uzbekistan closed 12 out of 15 border crossings with Kyrgyzstan after deadly ... Mirziyoev's trip was the first official visit of an Uzbek president toÃÂ ...
Trend News Agency
September 5, 2017
The joint statement and the agreement on the Uzbek-Kyrgyz state border ... economic, cultural, humanitarian cooperation between Andijan andÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
September 5, 2017
Under the new regulations, the Uzbek currency, the som, will no longer ... In the eastern city of Andijon, officials of the department to combat taxÃÂ ...
Saudi Gazette
August 30, 2017
Hajiyev belongs to Andijan region in East Uzbekistan and has come to perform Haj for the time. He had sustained several injuries on his hand,ÃÂ ...
International Cement Review
August 21, 2017
The project is under the special control of the Uzbek government. ... Recently, in the Bulakbashi district of the Andijan region, together withÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 16, 2017
Uzbekistan's prime minister, Abdulla Aripov, arrived in the Kyrgyz capital ... second city, Osh, crossed the border to meet in Andijon, Uzbekistan,ÃÂ ...
Roads and Kingdoms
August 14, 2017
Except we were around 25 miles outside Bustan in central Uzbekistan, and .... Fierce international criticism to the brutal suppression of protests in Andijan inÃÂ ...
Eurasia Times
March 17, 2017
However, shortly before Mirziyoyev's visit to Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Uzbekistan and China shelved a project to expand a pipeline to bring gas from Turkmenistan to China, in a major setback to Central Asian energy relations.
The Diplomat
March 16, 2017
But just days before Mirziyoyev would exchange smiles with his counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Uzbek and Chinese officials shelved a project to expand the pipeline that pumps gas from Turkmenistan to China, a major setback for regional energy ...
EurasiaNet
February 24, 2017
After the Andijan events, Almatov, who is now 67, was included on a list of Uzbek officials sanctioned by the European Union and the United States.
Human Rights Watch
February 22, 2017
(Bishkek) - Rustam Usmanov, a peaceful political activist imprisoned arbitrarily in Uzbekistan for 19 years and brutally tortured, was finally freed on February 13, 2017, at the end of his prison term, Human Rights Watch said today.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 19, 2017
So, someone following international news might remember the violence in Uzbekistan's eastern city of Andijon in 2005 when security forces opened fire on protesters, or the revolutions in Kyrgyzstan in 2005 and 2010, or that the region borders ...
Devex
February 14, 2017
Last year, a coalition of Uzbek activists sent a letter to then-U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, urging the Justice Department not to return the $850 million in frozen assets to the government of Uzbekistan, but instead to deposit the money in a ...
CSS Resources (blog)
February 13, 2017
In the aftermath of the Andijan massacre, Uzbekistan-US relations plummeted as the US called for an international investigation of the Uzbek government's actions; Uzbekistan in response restricted US access to the Karshi-Khanabad airbase. The countryÃÂ ...
Agenzia Nova (Abbonamento)
February 10, 2017
Roma, 10 feb 18:00 - (Agenzia Nova) - Il governo dell'Uzbekistan nel quarto trimestre del 2016 ha firmato accordi di credito per un importo complessivo di 508 milioni di dollari con le istituzioni finanziarie internazionali. ... Il costo stimato del ...
Human Rights Watch
February 9, 2017
Chances are that anyone who has followed developments in Uzbekistan for the past two decades has heard of Elena Urlaeva. But for those who have not, ... There are, of course, many Uzbek human rights defenders, both inside and outside the country, who ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 8, 2017
Elena was born in the western city of Andijon, though she grew up in Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, where she still lives.
East Coast Radio
February 2, 2017
Accidents happen all the time, and this unfortunate incident at O'zbegim shopping centre in the city of Andijan, in east-central Uzbekistan lead to the death of a child. According to Indian Express, the woman's dress got stuck in the elevator as she ...
Tribun Medan
February 1, 2017
TRIBUN-MEDAN.com-Seorang ibu muda terjatuh dari ketinggian 40 kaki karena jubahnya menyangkut di eskalator sebuah pusat perbelanjaan di Uzbekistan. Ironisnya, seorang bayi yang ada digendongan perempuan itu terlepas dan jatuh terlantai.
Surya Malang
February 1, 2017
Informasinya, anak tersebut jatuh dari ketinggian lantai empat sebuah Mall di O'zbegim, Andijan, Uzbekistan. Tak ada yang bisa menyelamatkan nyawa anak itu.
Utusan Malaysia
February 1, 2017
Lapor Mail Online, kejadian menyayat hati itu dirakamkan menerusi kamera litar tertutup (CCTV) di pusat beli belah O'zbegim di bandar Andijan, tengah timur Uzbekistan. Ketika insiden berkenaan, jubah yang dipakai oleh ibu bayi berkenaan dikatakanÃÂ ...
The Sun Daily
February 1, 2017
Daily Mail reported of the incident which happened in a shopping centre in Uzbekistan shows the woman in a long dress coming down an escalator with a baby in her right arm and holding an older child with her left hand.
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