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Farruh Yusupov

Farruh Yusupov is the director of RFE/RL's Turkmen Service. Before joining the Turkmen Service in 2016, he was an editor in the Uzbek Service and led its journalistic investigations, including a series of reports on corruption involving family members of President Islam Karimov. Farruh also produced radio programs, including Health, The Other Side Of The Coin, and OzodNavigator. He worked for USAID-funded projects in Central Asia before joining RFE/RL in 2004.

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February 10, 2022
Is Turkmenistan Planning A Leadership Change?

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has called an extraordinary session of the upper house of parliament amid speculation that preparations are being made for his son, Serdar, to be named his heir apparent.
September 21, 2019
'Dubious' Turkmen Video Claims Missing Activist Joined Army, Dead Father Still Alive

A Turkmen activist who disappeared in the country’s prison system last year has resurfaced in a YouTube video that claims he merely joined the army.
February 16, 2015
Out Of The Uzbek Cotton Fields, On To The Scrap Yard

Uzbek schoolchildren don't have to pick cotton anymore, but they still have to meet collection quotas for metal, paper, and other recyclables needed by the state.
November 13, 2013
Uzbek Motorists Running On Empty, Again

Uzbekistan is suffering from yet another gasoline drought. What's behind the crisis? RFE/RL correspondent Farruh Yusupov reports.
September 19, 2013
Uzbek Cotton Monitoring A Boll Of Yarns?

Amid international pressure, Uzbekistan has granted access to international monitoring teams to observe the cotton harvest. But with the observer mission due in Uzbekistan within days, concerns are arising that they might not get the whole truth.
May 22, 2013
New Documents Suggest Fresh Evidence Of TeliaSonera Ties To Karimova

Documents leaked to Swedish investigative journalists and reviewed by RFE/RL appear to offer fresh evidence of a link between Swedish telecom giant TeliaSonera and Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the president of Uzbekistan.
March 27, 2013
Karimov Absence Fuels Rumors Of What Comes Next In Uzbekistan

Longtime Uzbek leader Islam Karimov has been conspicuously absent in recent days, fueling rumors that he has suffered a severe heart attack. The speculation has sparked an old debate about who would replace him.
January 12, 2013
Fresh Documents Link Uzbek President's Daughter To Swedes In TeliaSonera Case

Did Scandinavian telecoms giant TeliaSonera pay Gulnara Karimova upwards of $300 million in bribes in order to break into the Uzbek mobile-phone market?
December 12, 2012
Swedish TV: How Millions In Telecoms Bribes End Up In Karimova's Pocket

An investigative program airing in Sweden offers evidence of how executives in Uzbekistan negotiated millions of dollars in suspected bribes on behalf of the presidential daughter, Gulnara Karimova.
October 11, 2012
Documents Link Uzbekistan's Karimova To Money-Laundering Suspect

New documents uncovered by Swedish journalists in France link Gulnara Karimova, the millionaire daughter of autocratic Uzbek President Islam Karimov, with an Uzbek citizen under investigation for money laundering and other financial crimes in Switzerland and Sweden.
May 13, 2011
New Start Can't Crowd Out Andijon Refugees' Painful Memories

Hapless refugees from a "massacre" in one of the poorest and most volatile pockets of Central Asia work hard to build new lives abroad while hanging on to their old ones in Uzbekistan.
October 15, 2009
EU Faces Decision On Uzbek Arms Embargo

EU member states are continuing their debate on whether to lift a largely symbolic arms embargo against Uzbekistan at the end of this month. While many influential EU states appear to favor a lifting of the arms embargo, human rights organizations both in Uzbekistan and in Europe are urging the EU to keep up the sanctions as the last means of reminding the international community of Tashkent's dismal human rights record.

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