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U.S. News & World Report
April 21, 2018
Armenian authorities say more than 70 people have been arrested, including two people suspected of building bombs, as large protests against the new government enter their second week in the capital Yerevan. April 21, 2018, at 8:45 a.m.. April 21, 2018, at 8:45 a.m.. U.S. News & World Report. Armenia Protests: 70Ãâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 19, 2018
Hamid al-Zerjawi, deputy National Security Service chief, told Human Rights Watch on April 17, 2018 that families of suspects should not have trouble getting security clearance based on their ... “I said to them, it was only one of my son's but my daughter, granddaughter, all the rest of us are clean,” she said.
EurasiaNet
April 11, 2018
Uzbekistan has just adopted a new law regulating the functions of its security services, the recently rebranded State Security Service, or SGB. The legislation was adopted by the lower house of parliament on March 15 and then approved by the Senate, the Oliy Majlis. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signedÃâà...
112 International (blog)
April 10, 2018
These are Ministry of Defense, National Security Service, Ministry of Internal Affairs, National Guard, National Police, State Border Service, State .... Recently, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis called on the Verkhovna Rada to pass a law on national security as soon as possible, "it will provide a firmÃâà...
Russia Matters
April 6, 2018
Washington hit Moscow with another round of sanctions for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, this time sanctioning seven Russian tycoons, ..... Van der Zwaan admitted to misleading Mueller's prosecutors and FBI agents about his discussions with Rick Gates, Trump's former deputy campaignÃâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
April 4, 2018
Uzbek president Shavkat Mirziyoyev has launched a major reorganisation of the powerful National Security Service (SNB) in what appears to be the most ... sentenced to life by the supreme court and fined more than a billion US dollars on charges of money laundering, arms and drugs trading and bribery.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 3, 2018
Uzbek police have detained a former deputy head of the country's National Security Service, the latest in a series of high-profile arrests of senior law enforcement officials, Tashkent sources say. Hayot Sharifkhojaev was detained in a special raid on March 30, a police officer who took part in the operationÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 29, 2018
Speaking to the Washington Examiner, three former career CIA professionals explained why they energetically endorse President Trump's pick to become ... moment for young women, young people of color, who might not have thought about the agency or national security service to now do so," she said.
Sudan Tribune
March 23, 2018
“Mark Mabil was picked and taken to the national security service detention facility at Jebel Kujur, west of capital Juba,” said Akolda Ater, a senior manager at ... The move means US, as well as non-US companies, would need a license to export, re-export, or transfer exports of any US-origin goods orÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
March 23, 2018
“Mark Mabil was picked and taken to the national security service detention facility at Jebel Kujur, west of capital Juba,” said Akolda Ater, a senior manager at ... The move means US, as well as non-US companies, would need a license to export, re-export, or transfer exports of any US-origin goods orÃâà...
The Denver Post
March 23, 2018
Holloway said during an interview with FBI agents on March 15, 2012, Jumaev admitted he sent the money to Muhtorov to support the Islamic Jihad Union and knew it was a ... The questioning reminded him of being interrogated by the infamous Uzbekistan National Security Service in 1999, Savitz said.
Jacobin magazine
March 21, 2018
... looks on during a meeting with US president Donald Trump (not pictured) in the Oval Office of the White House on February 24, 2017 in Washington, DC. .... the press received incriminating videos showing Vladimiro Montesinos, director of the National Security Service, bribing opposition politicians to joinÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 10, 2018
Armenia's National Security Service announced in early December that an arrest warrant was issued for a U.S. citizen of Armenian descent who allegedly set up a radical group named Fighters For Justice and plotted terrorist attacks against senior Armenian officials. If those allegations prove true, FightersÃâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
March 7, 2018
However, this was delayed due to objections from the National Security Service, in what some analysts interpreted as an internal power struggle. ... National carrier Uzbek Airlines has cut the cost of air travel, with a return ticket from Bishkek to Tashkent costing 150 US dollars, compared to 220 dollars in theÃâà...
RFI
February 28, 2018
Fifteen people have been killed in a resurgence of violence in the DRC's south-central Kasai province, regional paper the East African tells us. ... In a statement released on Monday, the embassy said the National Security Service agents had blocked a civil society leader from travelling to a transitionalÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
February 27, 2018
A few weeks ago, the Uzbekistani president sacked the longtime head of the country's National Security Service, Rustam Inoyatov, who generally was ... Similarly, some authorities in Washington fear that this curtailment of domestic surveillance by Mirziyaev's security apparatus could end up increasing theÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
February 24, 2018
Obtaining these documents requires a security screening by Interior Ministry, Intelligence, or National Security Service (NSS) officers, and these families automatically fail the security screening because of .... I am scared my son will never be able to go to school, and I just don't know what will happen to us.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 23, 2018
For Muslim worshippers, change has accelerated since January 31, when Mirziyoev dismissed the director of the National Security Service, Rustam ... The U.S. State Department lists Uzbekistan as a country of "particular concern" on religious freedom because of the rigid controls the state's ReligiousÃâà...
Russia Matters
December 31, 1999
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is adamant that Russia's recently unveiled nuclear weapons delivery vehicles will not change the strategic balance between Washington and Moscow. Moreover, Mattis said that he believes that Russia is wasting its money in developing weapons to overcome American missile defensesÃâà...
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