02.05.2013 кунлик архив

Farmers from Fergana leave for Russia

Many Uzbek farmers complain that they are forced to find work in neighboring countries, as they cannot find justice at home.

“Jarayon” had a chance to interview Uzbek farmer Iskandar, from Uchkoprik district of Ferghana region, who is currently working in Russia.

“First of all, necessity makes to go for this. On the other hand, it has become very hard to make a living doing farming nowadays. It is because farmers are not masters of their crop. My neighbors, who took the land to start farming, constantly complain.

Аctivist of Uzbeks’ society in Tadjikistan arrested in Russia

On April 30, Ravshan Mutalibov, deputy chairman of the Society of Uzbeks of Khatlon, was arrested at the airport of Krasnodar, Russia, on charges of drug smuggling. His boss Salim Shamsiddinov, chairman of the Society of Uzbeks, went missing in mid-March of this year.

Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan, Rahmatullo Zoirov, told about activist’s arrest in Russia on his Facebook page.