News Agency HARAKAT - 26 August 2010

  • 04:00Chevrolet Spark mini automobile presentation held in Tashkent

    As informed in the earlier Uzbek language news, the presentation of the Chevrolet Spark automobile, the product of the U.S.-Uzbekistan joint company “GM-Uzbekistan,” was supposed to take place in August 25. The information about the presentation, which was held today in the Tashkent "Uzexpocenter," was distributed not through official news agencies but by almost an unknown website, gazeta.uz. The site journalists wrote of this automobile as 5 door, but it can be seen in the picture that it h...

24 August 2010
  • 01:30Islam Karim’s conguratulation to Rosa Otunbaeva is the spit to the face of Uzbeks

    Today the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karim sent a telegram with congratulations to the head of the provisional government of Kyrgystan Rosa Otunbaeva. On the telegram were described warm wishes, and special spot of Rosa Otunbaeva in the Uzbek-Kyrgyz relationship. As it became known, Dmitriy Medvedev also sent a telegram with congratulations to a woman who ruled the massacre against Uzbeks in southern Kyrgystan. There is a difference between Dmitriy Medvedev's congratulations who sent a ...

20 August 2010
16 August 2010
  • 04:52"Birlik" Party’s leader talked by the phone with associates and discussed the future plans

    Yesterday and today, the "Birlik" Party chairman Abdurahim Polat talked through the telephone to the Party’s vice-chairmen Pulat Okhun, Hamdam Sulaymon and also Party General Secretary Mrs Vasila Inoyat, about realization of the accepted decrees on Central Council's Board expanded meeting held on May 1 in Tashkent and also about future plans. It is known, that the main subject of that meeting's Agenda was to accelerate the activities directed to get the official registration of " Birlik" Part...

12 August 2010
  • 03:48Tashkent province is alienated from citizens of the country

    After February 1999 terrorist attacks in Tashkent, President of Uzbekistan Islam Karim issued the special decree, which put under restraint obtaining the right (that is, registration) to live in Tashkent City. The only way to get registration in capital city was through the decision of specially organized commission. Special commission would not see everyone as worthy to live in the capital city. As a result, most of the employees registered in the Tashkent province but continued living in the ...

08 August 2010
  • 16:31Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Great Britain met with the "Birlik" Party's vice-chairman

    Representative on Uzbekistan and Tajikistan matters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Great Britain Mr. John Hetenstal and a head of the political matters department of the British Council in Uzbekistan Mr. Richard Pick visited the city of Kokand and met with a vice-chairman of the "Birlik" Party - Hamdam Sulaymon. The conversation touched government barriers in respect to democratic activities in Uzbekistan, violation of human rights, and situation with opposition, particularly, the si...

02 August 2010
  • 14:05One of the leaders of the "Birlik" Party Daynov Tashanov recovered after heart attack

    On July 11th of this year we informed about the "Birlik" Party vice-president Daynov Tashanov who got heart attack and was brought in to Kashkadarya regional Emergency Center. Daynov Tashanov, who twice came through myocardial heart attack later, was moved to Tashkent Republican Emergency center. With experienced surgeon's help he got installed conductors into his heart (steno). After the danger was over, "Birlik" activist Daynov Tashanov was discharged yesterday as he was feeling healthy. ...

31 July 2010
  • 13:47The sentence for the girl who saved her honor and imprisoned for 15 years remains unchanged

    In the July 13 and July 27 news, we informed the readers about Shohista Mahsumova who was forced to confess a murdering incident under fear of being raped by Kashkadarya region Internal Affairs Department’s investigator-officers was sentenced for 15 years imprisonment, and that the court hearing is in appeal process. Today the decision of Kashkadarya region Criminal Cases Appeal Court was announced to keep the sentence unchanged. The Appeal Court took on account the special investigation grou...

29 July 2010
  • 15:22The Religion Studies Department of Oriental University shut down

    The Religion Studies Department of Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies has been shut down. Applicants were not accepted this year to this Department and the decree of this Department to be shut down was released recently, confirmed one of the students of the department to our reporter. There is no doubt that shutting down the department is the derivative of the new state policy to limit religious freedom. Now, the religion studies specialists will come out of the Tashkent Islam Univ...

28 July 2010
  • 16:16Helsinki Commission held a hearing on Kyrgyzstan

    On July 27, 2010 the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) held a hearing - "Instability in Kyrgyzstan: the International Response" The following figures testified: The Honorable Robert O. Blake, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, U.S., State Department Mr. Arslan Anarbaev, Charge d’affaires, Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic Dr. Martha Olcott, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Dr. Bakyt Beshimov, ...