Posts tagged tajikistan

here is what you can read on today’s Around the Bloc:

• Documents put top Russian investigator in awkward spot
• Nikolic won’t rule out partition of Kosovo
• Romanian president lands on his feet
• Tajikistan blocks access to foreign news sites, YouTube
• Human rights activist murdered in Uzbekistan

Here is what you can read on today’s Around the Bloc:

Tajik president calls for surrender of rebel leader

Sweeping anti-gay legislation proposed in Ukraine

Slovakia’s Fico pledges to get rid of private insurers by end of 2013

Fire destroys refugee camp in Montenegro

Scientists: bacteria rise in Baltic Sea tied to climate change

Here is what you can read on today’s Around the Bloc:

• Tajik forces launch raid against crime gang
• Romanian police dispatched to quell London crime wave
• Far-reaching alcohol ad ban hits Russia

• Bank row could delay Croatia’s EU entry
• CNN gets flack for Kazakhstan profiles

Here is what you can read on today’s Around the Bloc

Company predicts large oil and gas reserves in Tajikistan

Bulgarian fruit pickers stranded in wilds of Sweden

Budapest seeks to save invalidated law on judiciary

Uzbek opposition leader flees the country

Dueling verdicts on Romanian PM plagiarism

Here is what you can read on today’s Around the Bloc

• Ex-police officer charged in Politkovskaya slaying
• Tajikistan, Russia reach agreement on military base
• Bulgaria ever more dependent on migrants’ money

• Serbian central banker rejects calls to lift austerity measures
• Debate continues to plague Macedonia’s lustration law

Here is what you can read on today’s Around the Bloc:

• Most-wanted Nazi suspect found in Budapest

• Astana: Evidence of terrorist activity discovered in burnt-out house
• Tajikistan sets up volunteer body to monitor Internet
• Court ruling bolsters Bosnia’s beleaguered unity
• Russia could extend ‘foreign agent’ label to media

The ongoing tension between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan is causing headaches and heartache for many Tajiks.

DUSHANBE | Twenty-eight-year-old Noziya Prpieva lives in northern Tajikistan, in the village of Nau just by the Tajikistan-Uzbekistan border. Most people around there speak Uzbek. When she was a child the Tajik and Uzbek people intermingled freely, and it mattered little which side of the border one came from.

Nine years ago Prpieva, a Tajik, married a man who lives just over the border on the Uzbek side. Ever since, the family has been forced to split their lives between the two countries.

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1. Action against forestry law morphs into Occupy Sofia

Protests in Bulgaria over a law that would allow some development in protected nature areas are escalating into an Occupy movement, the Sofia News Agency reports.

Since 13 June, when parliament passed a new forestry law, thousands of mostly young Bulgarians have been gathering in the city center. They initially demanded that President Rosen Plevneliev veto the law, which he did on 17 June, but members of the ruling GERB party say they will marshal the votes necessary to override the veto.

At issue is a measure that allows construction of ski lifts and trails without requiring a change in the legal use of the land. Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said the law would promote local development and jobs. But the protesters vilify it as a symbol of Bulgaria’s oligopoly: the country’s main ski resorts are controlled by banker Tseko Minev and his offshore companies,according to columnist Maria Guineva. “The closeness between him and Borisov is well-known and documented by joint appearances and photo ops,” she writes.

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