Tashkent's

Tashkent's violence against its own people only erodes the kind of regional stability the NATO mission is designed to encourage in the first place.

Europe's Soft Powerlessness 2008

Guelfi, who earned his fortune as a fishing magnate, says that he helped Moscow fight the Olympic boycott in 1980 and backed Tashkent's brief bid for the Games in the 1990s.

Five-Ring Scandal 2008

Tashkent's strongman, with some help from Berlin, has just outmaneuvered the European Union to get the sanctions against his regime lifted.

Europe's Soft Powerlessness 2008

Understandably, since the authorities remain sensitive to the memory of the uprising in Andijan in May 2005 that witnessed a crackdown on civilians which resulted in widespread international condemnation, and in due course was one of the contributory factors in Tashkent's decision to evict the US military later that year from the airbase in Kharshi-Khanabad.

OpEdNews 2010

Understandably, since the authorities remain sensitive to the memory of the uprising in Andijan in May 2005 that witnessed a crackdown on civilians which resulted in widespread international condemnation, and in due course was one of the contributory factors in Tashkent's decision to evict the US military later that year from the airbase in Kharshi-Khanabad.

OpEdNews 2010

An exhausted-looking Akhmedova, who turned up to Tashkent's Mirabad District Court wrapped in a flowing green silk coat against the bitter cold, pleaded not guilty to all charges.

News Agence France Presse 2010

However, acrimonious relations between Uzbekistan and its Tajik and Kyrgyz neighbours - spurred by Tashkent's concern that its legitimate interests are being ignored - could delay a settlement.

Peace Reporting 2010

Tashkent's official reluctance to comment on the recent Kyrgyz crisis, characterized as "above all an internal affair," did not prevent its government from stepping up domestic security on April 8 in the border areas, and later sending more police officers to patrol the streets of Andijan to prevent the emergence of any instability.

OpEdNews 2010

"Tashkent's strategy is clear - by demanding an international study, it wants to drag this project out," he said.

Peace Reporting 2010

Tashkent's official reluctance to comment on the recent Kyrgyz crisis, characterized as "above all an internal affair," did not prevent its government from stepping up domestic security on April 8 in the border areas, and later sending more police officers to patrol the streets of Andijan to prevent the emergence of any instability.

OpEdNews 2010