Uzbekistan News

UZBEKISTAN: OPPOSITION FIGURE'S RELEASE SIGNAL OF WARMING UZBEK-US TIES? 11/20/09 Uzbekistan's recent release of a leading jailed opposition figure is stoking hopes for warmer relations between Tashkent and the West.

Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Nov. 19 / corr Trend News D.Azizov

A rehabilitation center with 30 beds opened in Tashkent to assist and protect trafficking victims, the National Inter-Ministerial Committee to Combat Human Trafficking reported today.

Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, 19 November / Trend Capital, G.Hasanov /

International Gas Union (IGU), established in 1931, invited the gas producing states of Central Asia - Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, to join it. The Secretary General of the organization Torstein Indrebo made this proposal today during Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan-2009 conference held in Ashgabat.

Established in 2006, News Briefing Central Asia was conceived as a news analysis and comment service drawing on the expertise of a broad range of political observers across the region to contribute to greater public awareness of issues affecting the region.

Some 30 women have been arrested in the southern Uzbek city of Karshi since the beginning of November, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.

A conference of regional territorial office of the Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan took place in Samarkand.

Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Nov. 17 / Trend News D.Azizov /

Uzbekistan is celebrating Flag Day today to honor the country's foremost symbol of sovereignty - the flag - as well as the national emblem and anthem.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 17 / Trend News V.Zhavoronkova /

Greater cooperation among Central Asian countries could be useful in combating the threat of terrorism in the region, Acting Director of International Security Studies at Yale University Jeffrey Mankoff told Trend News.

Aeroflot has a sale going on right now with some ridiculous fares to ridiculous locations.A How ridiculous?A Good question.A How about $527 round trip to Tashkent, Uzbekistan from New York A NYC - Tehran, $508; Cairo, $470; Damascus, $533; Dubai, $521.A Many of the flights have terrible connections in Moscow; some require overnights in Moscow which ...

Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Nov. 16 / Trend News D.Azizov /

Uzbek President Islam Karimov approved three intergovernmental agreements this week signed with Turkmenistan on combating crime, extradition and border affairs.

Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Nov. 16 / Trend News D.Azizov /

Uzbek Foreign Economic Relations Minister Elyor Ganiev was appointed the country's deputy prime minister today.

Activists of Syrdarya region discussed the results of socio-economic development in the first nine months of this year and questions about the implementation of measures discussed by President Islam Karimov on 13 February meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, including priority tasks of deepening economic reforms.

Azerbaijan, Baku, November 13 / Trend News, V.Zhavoronkova, E.Ostapenko /

The probability of impact of instability in Afghanistan on the Central Asian states is unlikely, but the conflict situation in the neighboring country maintains them under threat, experts say.

The forum of business circles of Uzbekistan and Norway was held in Tashkent on 11 November.

While many Western investors remain fixated on somehow acquiring a slice of Turkmenistan's natural gas riches, despite a recent scandal over the country's actual reserves, there is another country further east whose energy and mineralogical reserves have been overlooked - Uzbekistan.

The BBC Uzbek Service has found that schoolchildren are still being sent out to work in Uzbekistan's vast cotton fields , despite government promises to stop using child labour during the harvest.

Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Nov. 9 / Trend News D.Azizov /

Uzbek President Islam Karimov approved an Uzbek-Azerbaijani intergovernmental agreement on military and technical cooperation.

Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Nov. 9 / Trend News D.Azizov /

Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyayev asked the relevant ministries and state agencies to up measures to prevent the swine flu from entering the country, the Cabinet of Ministers' Press Service reported today.

Established in 2006, News Briefing Central Asia was conceived as a news analysis and comment service drawing on the expertise of a broad range of political observers across the region to contribute to greater public awareness of issues affecting the region.

Thank you, cotton-growers! That'll be it for now. Translation of Musafirbek 's post For the past few days, Uzbekistan's media has been littered with painfully Soviet-style headlines: "A Great Victory for Our Cotton-Growers," "The Nation Praises the Heroes in Her Fields," and so on.