On 5-6 November, the Russian capital will be hosting the International Grand Prix Finale of the mountainous races tournament. Davlatali Shamsov, a TV journalist from Kulyab will take part in the competition.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was shocked and outraged to hear the news that our good friend Alisher Saipov, editor of the Uzbek newspaper Siyosat, was murdered on October 24 following a smear campaign directed against him that has continued even after his death. We send our condolences to the family and colleagues of this beloved young man.

The Ninth Central Asian Conference «Development and self-regulation among the media in Central Asia: on the way to independent and accountable media» will be held on 1-2 November in Dushanbe.

A two-week seminar on multimedia journalism completed in Dushanbe on 26 October.

National Association of Independent Media and the information agency «Inter Press Service» have jointly issued the fifteenth monthly bulletin «Media and Law».

Journalists of Khatlon province attended a two-day workshop «Role of the media in prevention and control of tuberculosis». This is a countrywide initiative supported financially by USAID, and technically by NGO «Hope».

The British Institute for War ad Peace Reporting (IWPR) presents international standards of journalism to media professionals in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province. A two-day workshop was organized in the city of Khorog, the administrative center of GBAO.

A well-known Kyrgyz journalist Alisher Saipov was killed on 24 October in downtown Osh. Under protection of anonymity, a Kyrgyz State Security Committee officer agreed to share some details of investigation.

The Third International Conference «Terrorism and Electronic Media» is being held these days in the capital of Cyprus, Nicosia.

International Organization for Migration (IOM) is ready to finance a district newspaper «Payomi Tojikobod.