 "Info-Prod Research (Middle East)")
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MEDIA DEMOCRATIZATION GROUP LAUNCHED IN KHOREZM.
; Intercontact, a new center founded by journalists, students, and public figures, was opened in the Khorezm Oblast on 3 July. The new non-profit NGO will promote the democratization of media. According to Sergei Naumov, Intercontact's...
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UZBEKISTAN DENIES REPORTS OF TROOP MOVEMENTS
; Armored infantry units stationed in Uzbekistan's Bukhara, Khorezm, and Kashkadryo oblasts are being moved closer to the country's borders with Turkmenistan, the Turkmen opposition site watan.ru...
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Uzbekistan - Gas Imports & Exports
; ...pipeline is completed. This will run from the gasfield of Gazli, near Bukhara in the central region, to gas-consuming areas of Khorezm and Karakalpak. The pipeline will have a capacity of about 10 BCM/year, with the two regions now requiring 5 BCM/year. A part...
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The communal and the sacred: women's worlds of ritual in Uzbekistan.
; ...Uzbekistan with Nadira Azimova in the provinces of Andijan, Khorezm, and Kashkadarya between 1997 and 2001 addressed different...perpetuation of pre-Soviet social forms. In his work on the Khorezm Uzbeks, Snesarev argued that the decay of orthodox Islam had...
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Mystical markings?
; ...believes the lamb's birth was a wake-up call to people who have turned away from God. She and her family came from the western Khorezm region, some 900 miles from Durmen. "I'm very happy. It is a real miracle," she said. But the female lamb does not get any...
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Central Asians Paying for Past Corruption; Moscow's Pursuit of Uzbek Apparatchiks Is Talk of the Teashops
; ...said knowingly during a recent conversation over green tea. "It is well known to everybody." In another region of Uzbekistan, Khorezm, a conversation also turned to recent political changes and the fate of the former regional Communist Party first secretary...
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Central Asia in the Bronze Age: sedentary and nomadic cultures. (Special Section)
; ...as the Anau Culture. Intensive archaeological research of Bronze Age sites in Central Asia began in the 1950s. The earlier Khorezm Archaeological Expedition set up in 1937 by S.P. Tolstov and the South Turkmenistan Archaeological Complex Expedition (IuTAKE...
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World Bank Approves Loan for Uzbekistan Project
; ...environmental damage caused by the degradation of the Aral Sea. It will help improve the health of the rural population of Karakalpaskstan and Khorezm, two of the poorest regions of the country, by investing in water and sanitation infrastructure.
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(book reviews)
; ...with the earliest extant written account of this narrative preserved in the Tarikh-i Dust Sultan of Otemish Hajji, written in Khorezm in the 1550s, DeWeese moves in two separate directions. On the one hand, he carefully traces all the echoes of the narrative...
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No more caviar: Uzbekistan. (Aral Sea shrinkage)
; ...sad, distant memory. The shrinking of the sea is destroying the local environment. The Oxus delta, historically known as the Khorezm oasis, was a centre of civilisation on a branch of the Silk Road leading to the Volga and Eastern Europe. Today little grows...
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