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Uzbekistan Resource Page - by EurasiaNet.org

UzbeckWorld.com

UzOnline Fast Finder

Ferganskoe Soobshchestvo - in Russian

Uzbek Farmers' Studios - by Shavkat Rakhmatplaev




 
COUNTRY OVERVIEW

Country Profiles and Fact Sheets

CIA World Factbooks - Uzbekistan

  1. Factbook 2000
  2. Factbook 1996


UNDP - Human Development Reports

  1. 1996 Uzbekistan Report


Nations in Transit - Uzbekistan - from Freedom House's 1998 annual report

Background Notes: Uzbekistan, September 1998 - U.S. Department of State



 
ONLINE NEWS



Uzbekistan News (Uzbekdaily.com) - daily (in English)

Choyhona Weekly - not updated since Oct 12 , 1999


   International Press and News Agencies

Uzbekistan Daily Digest - news from BBC, Interfax, and RFE/RL (maintained by EurasiaNet.org)

Washington Post - Uzbekistan

Infoseek (Reuters News Service) : Latest News about Uzbekistan

Yahoo! (UPI,Reuters) : Uzbekistan-related News

RFE/RL Newsline - Transcaucasia & Central Asia Daily Digest



 
POLITICS

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members in Uzbekistan

Oliy Majlis (Supreme Council) - information from the PARLINE database

Uzbekistan Elections Watch - by EurasiaNet

Uzbekistan Parliamentary Elections Backgrounder (Dec 1999) - by the Human Rights Watch

Erk Dermocratic Party - the party which grew from the Birlik Popular Front of Uzbekis

- Muhammad Salih and Erk Dermocratic Party
- Profile of Erk Dermocratic Party
- From the Turkish Model to the Chinese Model : A Brief Overview of Uzbekistan Today - by Muhammed Salih


   Clans and Politics

Are Central Asian Clans Still Playing A Political Role ? - by Kadir Alimov ("Central Asia Monitor" No. 4, 1994)


   Articles from Various Sites

The Assertion of the Uzbek National Identity - by Victoria Koroteyeva and Ekaterina Makarova (International Institute for Asian Studies ,Newsletter 6,1995)

Islam Karimov's Everlasting First Term - by Felix Corley (Transition ,Oct 1998)


 
HUMAN RIGHTS

Human Rights Watch - Uzbekistan Page

Human Rights Watch - Reports on Uzbekistan

Amnesty International - Publications on Uzbekistan



U.S. Department of State - Uzbekistan Country Report on Human Rights Practices

  1. for 1999(Feb 25, 2000)
  2. for 1998(Feb 26, 1999)
  3. for 1997(Jan 30, 1998)
  4. for 1996


Documents on Human Rights Violations in Uzbekistan

Human Rights in Turkestan - Erk (Democratic Party of Uzbekistan)

Crackdown in the Farghona Valley: Aarbitrary Arrests and Religious Discrimination - a report by the Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (1998)



 
MEDIA

Uzbekistan: Attacks on the Press in 1996

IFEX Action Alert Service - Uzbekistan



 
MUSLIMS IN UZBEKISTAN

Uzbekistan: Analysis From Washington -- Fighting Fundamentalism With Sufism - 11 September 2000 (RFE/RL)

Islamic Extremism" Masks Human Rights Crackdown in Uzbekistan - Human Rights Watch (May 26, 1998)

Islam thrives in Uzbekistan amid Soviet-era habits - by Dmitry Solovyov (BICNews , 5 Febraury 1998)

Encyclopedia of the Orient - Wahhabism / Muwahhidun



 
ETHNIC PROBLEMS

Joshua Project 2000 - Unreached People Profile - Index of Peoples in Uzbekistan

Ethnologue Database - Uzbekistan

   Jews

Am Yisrael - Jewish Communities in Uzbekistan


   Miskhetians

coming soon!



 
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Uzbekistan Looks West - by Shahram Akbarzadeh ("Russian and Euro-Asian Bulletin" , April 1999)

On Uzebek-Tajik Relations - "Russian Military Analysis" 6 Jan 1999



 
DEFENCE & SECURITY

Pluses and Minuses of Military Reform in Uzbekistan - "WPS Analysis" 20 October 2000

US-Uzbekistan Joint Commission -- Miltary Committee



 
ECONOMY

Center for Economic Research


    Overview

Republic of Uzbekistan - Recent Economic Developments - IMF Staff Country Reports No.98/116 (1998)

US Department of Energy / Country Analysis Brief - Uzbekistan

Economy of Uzbekistan - Tourism Sector


    Uzbek Economy 1991-1995


    Foreign Trade


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