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2015 Uzbek Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Uzbekistan on 29 March 2015. The result was a victory for incumbent President Islam Karimov, who received over 90% of the vote. Karimov's win gave him a fourth consecutive term as president, dating back to 1990. Background A constitutional law on presidential elections was approved by the Senate on 23 March 2012,Karimov surreptitiously shortens presidential term of office Uznews, 29 March 2012 which required presidential elections to be held 90 days after parliamentary elections. Elections to the Legislative Chamber were held over two-rounds, the first on 23 Decembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karimov Ufa (cropped)
Karimov or Carimoff is the Slavicised version of the name Karim. It is most popular in Central Asia, especially in Uzbekistan, although it is prevalent in the South Caucasus. Notable people with the surname include: * Ayrat Karimov (1971–2020), Russian footballer in the Soviet First League from 1987 * Ergash Karimov (1935–2009), Uzbek comedian and comic actor * Hayrulla Karimov (born 1978), international footballer who plays for PFC Kuruvchi * Islam Karimov (1938–2016), first President of Uzbekistan, from 1990 to 2016 * Jamshid Karimov (born 1967), Uzbek journalist * Jurabek Karimov (born 1998), Uzbekistani tennis player * Latif Karimov (1906–1991), Azerbaijani carpet designer See also *Kerimov *Karimova {{surname, Karimov Bashkir-language surnames Kazakh-language surnames Tajik-language surnames Tatar-language surnames Uzbek-language surnames Patronymic surnames Surnames from given names Surnames of Uzbekistani origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organization For Security And Co-operation In Europe
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world's largest regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization with observer status at the United Nations. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, promotion of human rights, freedom of the press, and free and fair elections. It employs around 3,460 people, mostly in its field operations but also in its secretariat in Vienna, Austria, and its institutions. It has its origins in the mid-1975 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) held in Helsinki, Finland. The OSCE is concerned with early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management, and post-conflict rehabilitation. Most of its 57 participating countries are in Europe, but there are a few members present in Asia and North America. The participating states cover much of the land area of the Northern Hemisphere. It was created during the Cold War era as a forum for discussion between the Western Bloc and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Elections In Asia
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Nariman Umarov
Nariman (also spelled Narriman, Nareeman, Neriman, Nəriman) is a name of Persian origin ( fa, نریمان ). It has roots traced to the Persian epic, Shahnameh, written by Ferdowsi. The name can mean "faith and brightness". It can also mean "brave, hero", with roots in the Avestan word naire-manå ("brave, manly"). In other countries, like Iran, it is used interchangeably with Nauroz, the Persian festival. In Iran and Azerbaijan it is typically a male given name, whereas in Turkey and the Arab World it is commonly female. People Given name *Nariman Behravesh (born 1948), American economist * Nariman Farvardin (born 1956), American engineer * Nariman Narimanov (1870–1925), Azerbaijani statesman, revolutionary, and writer *Neriman Özsoy (born 1988), Turkish volleyball player * Narriman Sadek (1933–2005), the last Queen of Egypt *Nariman Youssef, Egyptian translator Surname *Khurshed Nariman, Indian politician *Mansour Nariman (1935–2015), Iranian musician *Fali Narima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotamjon Ketmonov
Hotamjon Abdurahmonovich Ketmonov (born 22 May 1969) is an Uzbek politician who served as member of the Legislative Chamber from 2015 to 2019, and the chairman of the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan from 2013 to 2019, and candidate in the 2015 and 2016 Uzbek presidential election. Biography Ketmenov was born in 1969 in the Baliqchi District of Andijan region. In 1993, he graduated from the Andijan State Pedagogical Institute with a degree in Russian language and literature. Ketmonov began his career as a teacher at a School #28 in the Tashlak district of the Ferghana region. From 1995 to 2004, he worked as a chief specialist, department head, deputy head of the Department of Public Education of the Ferghana Region. From 2004 to 2013, Ketmenov served as Deputy Hokim of Andijan region for public relations and religious organizations. From 2013 to 2019, Ketmonov was the chairman of the Central Council of the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (PDPU). Following the res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akmal Saidov
Akmal is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name: * Akmal Cheema, Pakistani politician *Akmal Irgashev (born 1982), Uzbekistani taekwondo practitioner *Akmal Khan (died 1967), Pakistani actor and singer *Akmal Kholmatov (born 1976), Tajikistani footballer *Akmal Rizal Ahmad Rakhli (born 1981), Malaysian footballer * Akmal Saburov (born 1987), Tajikistani footballer * Akmal Saleh (born 1964), Australian comedian and actor *Akmal Shaikh (1956–2009), British-Pakistani businessman *Akmal Shorakhmedov (born 1986), Uzbekistani footballer Surname: *Adnan Akmal Adnan Akmal (Urdu, pa, ; born 13 March 1985) is a former international Pakistani cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who plays for Zarai Taraqiati Bank Ltd Cricket Team and has represented his country at U-17 level. He ... (born 1985), Pakistani cricketer * Kamran Akmal (born 1982), Pakistani cricketer * Umar Akmal (born 1990), Pakistani cricketer {{given nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
russian: Шанхайская Организация Сотрудничества , image = , caption = , logo = SCO logo.svg , logo_size = 160px , map = Shanghai Cooperation Organization after 2022 Samarkand Summit.png , msize = 250px , map_caption = , abbreviation = SCO , motto = , predecessor = Shanghai Five , formation = , extinction = , type = Mutual security, political, and economic alliance , status = , purpose = , headquarters = Beijing, China (Secretariat)Tashkent, Uzbekistan (RATS Executive Committee) , location = , membership = Observers Dialogue partners Guest attendees , language = , leader_title = Secretary-General , leader_name = Zhang Ming , leader_title2 = Deputy Secretaries-General , leader_name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commonwealth Of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an area of and has an estimated population of 239,796,010. The CIS encourages cooperation in economic, political and military affairs and has certain powers relating to the coordination of trade, finance, lawmaking, and security. It has also promoted cooperation on cross-border crime prevention. As the Soviet Union disintegrated, Byelorussian SSR, Belarus, Russian SFSR, Russia and Ukrainian SSR, Ukraine signed the Belovezh Accords on 8 December 1991, declaring that the Union had effectively ceased to exist and proclaimed the CIS in its place. On 21 December, the Alma-Ata Protocol was signed. The Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), which regard their membership in the Soviet Union as an Baltic states under Soviet rule (1944–1991), illegal occupation, chose not to participate. Georgia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City, that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. The group pressures governments, policy makers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights, and the group often works on behalf of refugees, children, migrants, and political prisoners. Human Rights Watch, in 1997, shared the Nobel Peace Prize as a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and it played a leading role in the 2008 treaty banning cluster munitions. The organization's annual expenses totaled $50.6 million in 2011, $69.2 million in 2014, and $75.5 million in 2017. History Human Rights Watch was co-founded by Robert L. Bernstein Jeri Laber and Aryeh Neier as a private American NGO in 1978, under the name Helsinki Watch, to monitor the then- Soviet Union's compliance with the Helsinki Accords. Helsinki Watch adopted a practic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party
The Uzbekistan "National Revival" Democratic Party ( uz, Oʻzbekiston “Milliy Tiklanish” Demokratik Partiyasi, OʻzMTDP), simply known as Milliy Tiklanish, is a national-conservative political party in Uzbekistan. It is allied with the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, the country's ruling party. The party is one of the country's five officially sanctioned political parties along with the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, the Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party, the Justice Social Democratic Party. and the Ecological Party of Uzbekistan. History The party was formed in 1995 with a largely intellectual membership and has a comparatively high proportion of female members. The party advocates a strong sense of Uzbek culture, desiring a cultural revival, whilst also seeking to build closer links with other states in Central Asia. The party opposes the influence of Russia in the region and attacked the foundation of the Eurasian Economic Community on this ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islam Karimov
Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov ( uz, Islom Abdugʻaniyevich Karimov / Ислом Абдуғаниевич Каримов, italics=no; russian: link=no, Ислам Абдуганиевич Каримов; 30 January 1938 – 2 September 2016) was the leader of Uzbekistan and its predecessor state, the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, from 1989 until his death in 2016. He was the last First Secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from 1989 to 1991, when the party was reconstituted as the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (PDP); he led the PDP until 1996. He was the President of the Uzbek SSR from 24 March 1990 until he declared the independence of Uzbekistan on 1 September 1991. He declared Uzbekistan an independent nation on 31 August 1991. He subsequently won a non-democratic 1991 Uzbek presidential election, presidential election on 29 December 1991, with 86% of the vote. Foreign observers and opposition party cited voting irregularities, alleging state-run propaganda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice Social Democratic Party
The Justice Social Democratic Party ( uz, Adolat Sotsial Demokratik Partiyasi; ASDP) is a political party in Uzbekistan. One of the founders and the first general secretary of the party was Anvar Juraboev. It is one of the four parties who acts as a pro-government opposition to the Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party, the country's ruling party. Ideology ASDP is a centre-left political party and holds positions similar to the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan. It promotes egalitarianism and social justice, supporting a social market economy The social market economy (SOME; german: soziale Marktwirtschaft), also called Rhine capitalism, Rhine-Alpine capitalism, the Rhenish model, and social capitalism, is a socioeconomic model combining a free-market capitalist economic system alon ... and an universalistic welfare state. Its core supporters include workers in technical engineering, teachers, doctors, and employees in budgetary organizations and the sector of service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
