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Uzbekistan: Central Asian
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[One] important river is the Zeravshan, which flows westward from the mountains of Tajikistan through east central Uzbekistan. Before it began to be tapped for irrigation, the Zeravshan was the Amu Darya’s largest tributary; now it dissipates in the Qyzylqum desert near the city of Bukhara (Bukhoro). Uzbekistan has thousands of small streams that expire in the desert, many having been emptied by irrigation.
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The Commercial Service and American Business Center maintain an up to date list of exhibitions and trade shows in Uzbekistan. Upcoming shows include: Central Asian Textiles and Leather; ELCOM Office '97 (international exhibition of energy, electrification, communication and computers); International Interior Furnishings Fair '97; Consumerexpo '97 (exhibition of consumer goods); the Fourth Annual International Health Exhibition; the Second Annual International Oil and Gas Exhibition; and Agrofoods '98. This is just a partial list. Please contact the Commercial Service/ABC in Tashkent, Uzbekistan for the latest information.
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More than 50 percent of the land under irrigation in Central Asia is in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. The Syr Darya and the Amu Darya and their tributaries provide most of the water. Large dams on the Vakhsh River at Nurek and Rogun produce electricity and provide irrigation for 2 million acres (800,000 hectares).
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Members of Hizb-ut-Tahrir arrested in Uzbekistan are almost always charged under article 159 and tried in groups. They are routinely accused of distributing flyers (written in Arabic) calling for a central Asian caliphate while in possession of bullets (very rarely actual guns). The clumsiness of many such charges is apparent: Ismail Odilov, a human-rights activist, reported a case where the police planted leaflets and a bullet on a blind man.
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Ashkenazi Jews are relatively new to the region, hardly any lived in Central Asia until Stalin sent thousands of Russian Jews to Uzbekistan as punishment. More than one million Holocaust fleeing Jews passed through Uzbekistan, with about 200,000 remaining after World War II.
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A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited the Republic of Uzbekistan from 4 June through 13 June 2007. The mission was headed by Ms. Sena Eken, assistant director in the Middle East and Central Asia Department of the IMF.
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