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Uzbeks stage protests in Moscow
Published: 12 June, 2010, 19:38
Edited: 15 June, 2010, 09:26
TAGS: Russia, Protest, Kyrgyz uprising, Immigration
More than a hundred ethnic Uzbeks have staged a protest outside Kyrgyzstan's embassy in Moscow. Last Thursday some 200 Uzbeks gathered near the Government Building.
In both cases they were calling for an end to the violence, and asking Moscow to step in to end what they called “pointless violence”.
They were concerned about the health and well-being of their relatives – ethnic Uzbeks living in Kyrgyzstan and caught in the violence.
Russian authorities have pledged to help as soon as they can.
Durdona Abagzhanova, an ethnic Uzbek from Kyrgyzstan who is a student in Moscow told RT that “Russia should definitely help to stop the gunfire, because the interim government is too weak.”
Watch photo-report on the Uzbeki protest in Moscow in RT galleries
12.06.2010, 19:15
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13.06.2010, 06:59
Most severely injured in Kyrgyz chaos brought to Moscow for medical treatmentRussia’s emergencies ministry plane has brought to Moscow six people who were severely injured in the Kyrgyz violence. They are being taken to Moscow hospitals for specialist treatment. |
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What has to happen, to make Russia do something? Have they forgotten the 90's, Georgia, Ukraine etc.,(thank God for the Ukraine people the US puppet Yushenko is gone) or do they believe the US like the Roman Empire will destroy itself, perhaps , look at Latin America as an example only Colombia and one Central American country , heavily financed by the American tax payer can you call US allies......yet countries like Kyrgystan ARE in Russia's backyard and the desperate "wounded eagle" is just as greedy as ever and must be contained somehow if necessary for the good of the world. fred.......oregon,usa
USA! CIA! What is it with you people that you always blame them! So don't you believe that sometimes Russia and other states couldn't or wouldn't use their secret services for their purpuses is wanted??? Rosa Okumbayeva already said it - these clashes are masterminded by the CSTO states in order to destabilize the country and to underminde the upcoming referendum. Well, why would they want to prevent the referendum, you ask? What is it about this referendum that makes the CSTO leaders so scared of it? Because if passed by the peoples it would change the constitution - a) turning Kyrgyztan into the first and only parliamentiary republic among all the CIS states and b) making it impossible by law to monopolize the mass media under one party. You can compare what is happening now in Kyrgyzstan to the French revolution of 1789 and the counter-revolutionary reaction by the monarchys of Europe in the years that followed. A succesfully passed referendum would put a democraticaly elected parliament in charge, instead of the president, thus creating a precedent in the post-soviet sphere. This would make people in the CIS ask themselves "Why do we have to tolerate life-long autocratic presidents (Karimov, Nazarbaev, Lukashenko, Yeltsin and Putin, etc...) being in charge unchecked for 20 years now? Why do we have to tolerate state-controlled mass media? Why can't we have our country run by the parliament? Hey, look at fellow Kyrgyzstan, their peoples rose up, passed a referendum, and now look - the have real democracy! Why can't WE have that?!!" And now you get why the CSTO countries' leaders are so scared of such a prospect, and why the clashes started exactly now during the SCO summit in Tashkent...