http://www.rferl.org/archive/Uzbekistan/latest/652/671.html RFE/RL's latest news, features, commentary, and multimedia content on Uzbekistan http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/Uzbekistan/latest/652/671.html en-US Copyright 2009 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:24:18 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL A Tajik Foreign Ministry official says the borders between Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan should be demined as soon as possible, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Central_Asian_Countries_Seek_To_Demine_Border_Areas/1884747.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Central_Asian_Countries_Seek_To_Demine_Border_Areas/1884747.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:10:09 +0000 From Our Bureaus The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has begun a third round of discussions in Almaty about upcoming counterterrorism exercises, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbeks_Skip_Regional_Security_Meeting_In_Kazakhstan/1881390.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbeks_Skip_Regional_Security_Meeting_In_Kazakhstan/1881390.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:03:24 +0000 From Our Bureaus Some 30 women have been arrested in the southern Uzbek city of Karshi since the beginning of November, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Muslim_Women_Arrested_In_Southern_Uzbekistan/1881063.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Muslim_Women_Arrested_In_Southern_Uzbekistan/1881063.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:24:02 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/Muslim_Women_Arrested_In_Southern_Uzbekistan/1881063.html#relatedInfoContainer Before the autumn revolutions in Eastern Europe, there was the Moscow Spring in the Soviet Union. In 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev's reform policies hit their high-water mark, as the USSR held its first competitive elections, press freedom flourished, and civil society awakened. http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:14:45 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html#relatedInfoContainer Uzbek President Islam Karimov's daughters are known for living the high life. But even for them, this is pretty impressive. http://www.rferl.org/content/Daddy_Buy_Me_A_Bellucci/1876229.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Daddy_Buy_Me_A_Bellucci/1876229.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:37:11 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/Daddy_Buy_Me_A_Bellucci/1876229.html#relatedInfoContainer The number of swine flu patients in Kyrgyzstan has reached 27, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Reports_More_Swine_Flu_Infections_But_No_Deaths/1875149.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Reports_More_Swine_Flu_Infections_But_No_Deaths/1875149.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:26:24 +0000 From Our Bureaus Tajikistan has introduced electricity rationing in some of its provinces after a major blackout in the country, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Electricity_Being_Rationed_In_Some_Tajik_Provinces/1875105.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Electricity_Being_Rationed_In_Some_Tajik_Provinces/1875105.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:00:56 +0000 From Our Bureaus The daughter of jailed Uzbek dissident writer Yusuf Juma says police are visiting her home every day and night and interrogating her, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Jailed_Uzbek_Dissidents_Daughter_Being_Harrassed_By_Police/1874845.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Jailed_Uzbek_Dissidents_Daughter_Being_Harrassed_By_Police/1874845.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:23:09 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/Jailed_Uzbek_Dissidents_Daughter_Being_Harrassed_By_Police/1874845.html#relatedInfoContainer Some 2,000 Kazakhs are planning to go on the hajj -- the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia -- despite the swine flu epidemic, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kazakhs_To_Make_Hajj_While_Turkmen_Will_Stay_Home__/1873451.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kazakhs_To_Make_Hajj_While_Turkmen_Will_Stay_Home__/1873451.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:32:49 +0000 From Our Bureaus The family of jailed Uzbek journalist and human rights activist Dilmurod Sayyid died in a car accident on their way to visit him in prison, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Jailed_Uzbek_Journalists_Family_Dies_In_Auto_Accident/1872489.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Jailed_Uzbek_Journalists_Family_Dies_In_Auto_Accident/1872489.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:21:02 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/Jailed_Uzbek_Journalists_Family_Dies_In_Auto_Accident/1872489.html#relatedInfoContainer Uzbek opposition leader Sanjar Umarov has been freed after four years in jail, a pro-opposition website reported on November 8, in a move that could help the Central Asian state further improve ties with the West. http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbek_Opposition_Leader_Reportedly_Freed/1872457.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbek_Opposition_Leader_Reportedly_Freed/1872457.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:36:58 +0000 News Iranian-American Azadeh Moaveni, is the author of the best-selling memoirs "Honeymoon in Tehran" and "Lipstick Jihad." She spoke to RFE/RL correspondent Kristin Deasy about Iran's strict Islamic dress code on one hand, and the banning of Islamic headscarves in Uzbekistan on the other. http://www.rferl.org/content/Interview_IranianAmerican_Author_Discusses_Islamic_Dress/1872445.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Interview_IranianAmerican_Author_Discusses_Islamic_Dress/1872445.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:13:19 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Interview_IranianAmerican_Author_Discusses_Islamic_Dress/1872445.html#relatedInfoContainer Lebanese-born Aheda Zanetti, now an Australian citizen, is a Muslim fashion designer who created the "burqini" after reading about how difficult it was for women to swim in full burqas. She spoke to RFE/RL correspondent Kristin Deasy about the politics of Islamic fashion. http://www.rferl.org/content/Interview_Muslim_Fashion_Designer_Discusses_The_Burqini/1872438.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Interview_Muslim_Fashion_Designer_Discusses_The_Burqini/1872438.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:47:54 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Interview_Muslim_Fashion_Designer_Discusses_The_Burqini/1872438.html#relatedInfoContainer Islamic female clothing has become as much a political statement as it is a religious statement in many countries. http://www.rferl.org/content/Bans_Burqinis_And_Bad_Hijab/1872428.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Bans_Burqinis_And_Bad_Hijab/1872428.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:13:54 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Bans_Burqinis_And_Bad_Hijab/1872428.html#relatedInfoContainer Uzbekistan says it has signed an agreement to export up to 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbekistan_To_Deliver_Natural_Gas_To_China_/1871364.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbekistan_To_Deliver_Natural_Gas_To_China_/1871364.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:30:54 +0000 News The Uzbek government adopted a law on November 1 that bans the sale of alcoholic beverages near all educational and religious buildings in the country, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Alcohol_Sales_Banned_Near_Uzbek_Schools_Mosques_/1871334.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Alcohol_Sales_Banned_Near_Uzbek_Schools_Mosques_/1871334.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:16:55 +0000 From Our Bureaus A court in Turkmenistan has overturned a five-year jail sentence handed down last week to a biologist whose environmental organization was shut down by the state in 2003. The case marks the second time in three years that Andrei Zatoka has been sentenced and detained before being released, and highlights the difficulties activists commonly encounter in Central Asia. http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Case_Highlights_Plight_Of_Activists_In_Central_Asia/1871275.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Case_Highlights_Plight_Of_Activists_In_Central_Asia/1871275.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:13:52 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Case_Highlights_Plight_Of_Activists_In_Central_Asia/1871275.html#relatedInfoContainer Pakistani troops have surrounded Kaniguram, a key base for Uzbek Islamic militants in Pakistan's South Waziristan region, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Pakistani_Troops_Capture_Town_Used_By_Uzbek_Militants_/1864845.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Pakistani_Troops_Capture_Town_Used_By_Uzbek_Militants_/1864845.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:01:50 +0000 From Our Bureaus A 10th young person has died in Uzbekistan while involved in compulsory work on the cotton harvest, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Another_Uzbek_Student_Dies_During_Cotton_Harvest/1864533.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Another_Uzbek_Student_Dies_During_Cotton_Harvest/1864533.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:49:47 +0000 From Our Bureaus The European Union's curious history of applying punitive sanctions on non-member states is likely to prove short-lived. After EU foreign ministers decided on October 27 to remove all remaining restrictions on Uzbekistan, which has one of the world's most repressive regimes, the end of the whole idea of sanctions cannot be far away. http://www.rferl.org/content/The_EUs_Learning_Curve_Heralds_Beginning_Of_End_Of_Sanctions/1863169.html http://www.rferl.org/content/The_EUs_Learning_Curve_Heralds_Beginning_Of_End_Of_Sanctions/1863169.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:51:30 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/The_EUs_Learning_Curve_Heralds_Beginning_Of_End_Of_Sanctions/1863169.html#relatedInfoContainer The EU has decided to lift the last of the sanctions imposed on Uzbekistan after the 2005 Andijon massacre. In dropping a largely symbolic arms embargo, the EU said that relations with Uzbekistan have acquired a "new scope and quality" over the past two years. But looking at the lessons learned over the course of the two-pronged sanctions regime, observers and rights activists have a markedly different assessment of the measures' effectiveness. http://www.rferl.org/content/Did_EU_Learn_Lessons_From_Sanctions_Regime_On_Uzbekistan/1862369.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Did_EU_Learn_Lessons_From_Sanctions_Regime_On_Uzbekistan/1862369.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:57:32 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Did_EU_Learn_Lessons_From_Sanctions_Regime_On_Uzbekistan/1862369.html#relatedInfoContainer The European Union has lifted sanctions on Uzbekistan, despite concerns about human rights in the former Soviet republic. http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Lifts_Uzbek_Sanctions_Despite_Rights_Concerns/1862073.html http://www.rferl.org/content/EU_Lifts_Uzbek_Sanctions_Despite_Rights_Concerns/1862073.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:10:31 +0000 News Kyrgyzstan's Interior Ministry says that a second suspect is being sought in the 2007 murder of independent journalist Alisher Saipov, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Police_Seeking_Second_Suspect_In_Journalists_Killing/1861617.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyz_Police_Seeking_Second_Suspect_In_Journalists_Killing/1861617.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:11:35 +0000 From Our Bureaus What's your idea of the best place in which to live? Many people would probably answer that palm trees and a gleaming beach would be a good start to their idea of earthly paradise. But in real life, the country which scores best on a whole range of economic and quality-of-life issues is a good deal colder. It's Finland. That's what the 2009 Prosperity Index issued by the British-based think tank the Legatum Institute finds. http://www.rferl.org/content/Wheres_The_Best_Place_To_Live_Prosperity_Index_Offers_A_Few_Surprises/1861387.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Wheres_The_Best_Place_To_Live_Prosperity_Index_Offers_A_Few_Surprises/1861387.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:48:40 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Wheres_The_Best_Place_To_Live_Prosperity_Index_Offers_A_Few_Surprises/1861387.html#relatedInfoContainer Promoting itself as a hospitable tourist stop along the ancient Silk Road, Uzbekistan is seeking to boost its tourism industry and attract more foreign travelers. But the authoritarian regime in Tashkent maintains a strict visa procedure that discourages outside visitors. http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbekistan_Promoting_Itself_To_Tourists_But_Maintains_Exhausting_Visa_Regime/1860459.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbekistan_Promoting_Itself_To_Tourists_But_Maintains_Exhausting_Visa_Regime/1860459.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:48:21 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Uzbekistan_Promoting_Itself_To_Tourists_But_Maintains_Exhausting_Visa_Regime/1860459.html#relatedInfoContainer