Alisher Vohidov

By News Briefing Central Asia - News Briefing Central Asia Uzbekistan joined other states in Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe on April 12 to sign an agreement on eliminating old pesticide stocks with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, and the European Union. Over a four-year period, the FAO and EU will provide seven million euro to these states to help them destroy obsolete pesticides, design new...  

Rumors are circulating that London has rejected the daughter of Uzbekistan’s strongman Islam Karimov as his ambassador to the Court of St. James’s. Gulnara Karimova, the self-styled glamorous society queen, has already served as Uzbekistan’s ambassador to Spain and representative to the United Nations in Geneva. If true, the rebuff could spell trouble for Britain’s Afghanistan exit plans. Though the idea Gulnara would seek such a sinecure is...  

LifesiteUzbekistan forcibly sterilizing women for population control: BBC reportLifesiteWhile human rights organizations, and even the United Nations, have called attention to the Uzbek government's forced sterilization program in the past, it seems virtually no international pressure is being put on Uzbek President Islam Karimov to end ...and more »