Today a long awaited EU Strategy for Central Asia will be announced and signed in Berlin. The vast Central Asian region including five former Soviet states remained a “gap” in the European scope of interests for a long time. However, with the rise of prices on oil and gas, and high dependency on Russian gas […]

Last week the President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, visited the eastern provinces of Namangan and Andijan. Both of the provinces are known as the most densely populated regions and have very conservative communities. Residents of these provinces have always been critical of the current government, thus constitute the most problematic regions of the republic […]

At least that’s what the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan reported to Kazinform. The report claims that the population of Uzbekistan increased by 82 thousand people (0.3%) from January till April of this year, which brought the population to a total of 26.7 million people  .
According to these official statistics, the population change in […]

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007: For many of us this day is the same as any other, and those of us who don’t know what this day marks are very fortunate.
For thousands of people around the world this day is very special. Six years ago in 2001 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to […]

According to the BBC Uzbek Service, human rights activist Gulbakhor Turaeva was recently freed from custody after being in prison for almost five months.  Gulbakhor Turaeva was sentenced to six years of imprisonment for crossing the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border with literatures published by the opposition organization Erk, whose content is […]

Today is June 12 – a World Day Against Child Labor. Every year, this day focuses on one of the spheres of life that involves a child labor, spheres that are most harmful and disastrous for children’s development. This year the World Against Child Labor is focused on involving child labor in agriculture.
In the […]