copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Kyrgyzstan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2020-11-19): In September 2013, the Ungar-Too mountain with an undecided status that locates the antennas of Kyrgyz TV and cellular companies became a matter of dispute between the republics. This case demonstrates how corruption obscures the border delimitation and demarcation processes. [...] On August 13, 2016, Kyrgyz police detained an Uzbek policeman for violating the border in the Ala-Buka district. On August 22, at the disputed area of the two countries on Mount Ungar-Too, officers of the Uzbek Interior Ministry landed from a Mi-8 helicopter. They demanded that the detained officer be released. The Kyrgyz side released the detained Uzbek policeman on the same day. On August 24, Uzbek police detained four Kyrgyz engineers of the Kerben radio relay station on Ungar-Too under the pretext of "passport arrangements". In response to a demand for the immediate release of Kyrgyz citizens, the Uzbek security forces demanded that Uzbekistan be granted the right to guard the Orto-Tokoy reservoir, a place of political disputes. The engineers were released two weeks later, and the Uzbek security forces left Ungar-Too a month later.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Kyrgyzstan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-08-09): As of an agreement in 2017, around 85 percent of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border was formally described and agreed to. But the remaining border remained undetermined, particularly when it came to the status of the Orto-Tokoi (Kasan-Sai) reservoir and Ungar-Too, a mountain that has served as a flashpoint as recently as 2016. Deescalating tensions over Ungar-Too was, in fact, one of Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s first actions as acting president in September 2016 after the death of Islam Karimov. He ordered the release of four Kyrgyz workers who had been detained by Uzbek troops and then the withdrawal of Uzbek forces.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Kyrgyzstan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-03-26): Border with Uzbekistan now runs not along Ungar-Too mountain, but at the foothills: Tashiev AKIPRESS.COM - Now the border will run not along Ungar-Too, but at the foothills, Chairman of the State National Security Committee, Kamchybek Tashiev, on March 26 at a press conference...
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-07-07): The Ungar-Too (also: Ungar-Tepe) is a mountain located on the Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan border, which has been a cause of tension between the two countries. [...] References [edit]- ^ "Ungar-Too Mountain history: Disputed area was recognized as belonging to Uzbekistan 10 years ago during Bakiev's tenure". [...] - ^ "Ungar-Too Mountain not on list of defined border sections between Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan".
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-03-15): In turn, the Uzbek side is ready to cede Unkur-Too (Ungar-Too) area to Kyrgyzstan, which was the subject of disputes and political tension between residents of the border areas until that time.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Ungar-Too Mountain not on list of defined border sections between Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan. The Ungar-Too Mountain was not included into the list of the defined border sections between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, Foreign Minister Erlan Abdyldayev told a news conference today in Bishkek. [...] The Ungar-Too Mountain lies on disputed area of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. It occupies 45 ha. Kyrgyzstan's Kerben radio relay station is functioning on the top of the mountain since the Soviet Union time. The station is used for retransmission of radio signals and provision of voice communication service in Aksy, Ala-Buka, Chatkal districts of Jalal-Abad region of Kyrgyzstan.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-12-20): Uzbek troops have occupied small areas in Kyrgyzstan several times since 1991. Uzbek troops were occupying the Ungar-Too site in 2016 when Islam Karimov died (Ungar-Too was recognized as Kyrgyz territory under the recent border agreement).
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-11-22): Uzbekistan transferred 35 hectares of land in Ungar-Too as compensation for the use of Orto-Tokoi reservoir. Nazirbek Borubayev, special envoy for border issues of the Cabinet of Ministers, announced this at a meeting of the Parliament. [...] «Earlier, we received 190 hectares at Asek site, in Kara-Beles — 25, in Kok-Serek — 105 hectares, in Bayastan — 212 hectares, in Ungar-Too — 35 hectares and 100 hectares in Kara-Suu district,» Nazirbek Borubaev said.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-01-31): A disputed mountain that the two countries had squabbled over throughout that year, Ungar-Too, has now been confirmed as Kyrgyz territory in the border deal agreed to by Mirziyoev and Japarov.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-03-23): Uzbekistan has complicated border relations with all of its neighbors except, ironically enough, Afghanistan. Many of its border issues have remained unresolved to differing degrees for decades. The Kyrgyz side issued the details of the border delimitation plan for the remaining unresolved territory, although the statement had to be changed. At the same time, Uzbekistan limited its comments to resolution timelines only. What stayed unchanged in the official statement is that Uzbekistan was ready to give the disputed territory Ungar-Too to Kyrgyzstan in order to finalize border delimitation negotiations. It’s unclear whether that move from Tashkent is bound by Bishkek offering its own territorial concessions.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2016-08-25): The Ungar-Too (also: Ungar-Tepe) is a mountain located on the Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan border, which has been a cause of tension between the two countries. [...] The Uzbek presence on the mountain remained for the time being and was increased to 20 people at the beginning of September 2016. The occupation of the Ungar-Too was also used as leverage in other acute issues, but bilateral negotiations initially remained unsuccessful. The four Kyrgyz workers were held in a police station in Yangikurgan.[4] The diplomatic efforts eventually led to the release of the prisoners and the evacuation of the mountain on 18 September.[5] In the months to come, the two countries came closer together and a Kyrgyz diplomatic delegation visited Uzbekistan for the first time in several years. In July 2018, an agreement was concluded between the states that clarified some border issues, but the Ungar-Too was not mentioned in it, so that status remains unclear.[6][7]
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-04-23): In accordance with the terms of a bilateral agreement, Barak -- a 208-hectare cutout of Kyrgyz territory entirely surrounded by Uzbekistan -- was absorbed by the larger country, with Kyrgyzstan receiving an equivalent parcel of Uzbekistan's Andijon Province in exchange. [...] In 2016, the countries mobilized their militaries close to a small mountain known in Uzbek as Ungar-Tepa and Unkur-Too in Kyrgyz.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-02-21): No Kyrgyz territory is endangered by the airport, but symbolically it certainly reinforces Uzbekistan’s claim to the exclave and is a reminder to local Kyrgyz that its larger neighbor is paying attention to an area many in Kyrgyzstan believe is neglected by their government. [...] Uzbek troops crossed into the area twice in 2016 and, in August of that year, occupied a nearby mountain called Ungar-Too, holding captive several Kyrgyz employees there who were operating a telecommunications relay station.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2016-03-23): The current quarrel centers around a small mountain known in Uzbek as Ungar-Tepa and Unkur-Too in Kyrgyz, which lies on the undemarcated Kyrgyz-Uzbek border about 10 kilometers from the western Kyrgyz town of Kerben. On March 18, two Uzbek armored personnel carriers and some 40 soldiers suddenly appeared at the border crossing near Ungar-Tepa at a place called Chala-Sart in Kyrgyz. [...] He added that Kyrgyz officials were "now saying that those 12 hectares of land [that make up the Ungar-Tepa mountain] have never been fully delineated [with Uzbekistan]. Well it has been defined as it has been used by Kyrgyz people for ages. Is there anyone here who would say this piece of land is in fact disputed with Uzbekistan?"
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2020-11-19): In September 2013, the Ungar-Too mountain with an undecided status that locates the antennas of Kyrgyz TV and cellular companies became a matter of dispute between the republics. This case demonstrates how corruption obscures the border delimitation and demarcation processes. [...] On August 13, 2016, Kyrgyz police detained an Uzbek policeman for violating the border in the Ala-Buka district. On August 22, at the disputed area of the two countries on Mount Ungar-Too, officers of the Uzbek Interior Ministry landed from a Mi-8 helicopter. They demanded that the detained officer be released. The Kyrgyz side released the detained Uzbek policeman on the same day. On August 24, Uzbek police detained four Kyrgyz engineers of the Kerben radio relay station on Ungar-Too under the pretext of "passport arrangements". In response to a demand for the immediate release of Kyrgyz citizens, the Uzbek security forces demanded that Uzbekistan be granted the right to guard the Orto-Tokoy reservoir, a place of political disputes. The engineers were released two weeks later, and the Uzbek security forces left Ungar-Too a month later.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-10-25): According to the agreements reached between the two countries in March 2021, several cross-border sections, in particular, Mount Ungar-Too, will be transferred to Kyrgyzstan. In exchange for these territories, Uzbekistan acquired the right to use the Kempir-Abad reservoir. The 50-hectare area where the Shahrikhonsoy canal is located was also transferred to Uzbekistan. In return, Kyrgyzstan received 50 hectares of land in the border area of the Ozgan district.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-11-02): - The mount Ungar-Too – 35 ha; [...] - The village of Kara-Beles of Ala-Buka district – 25 ha, which was earlier the territory of Uzbekistan;
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2019-08-16): Der Ungar-Too (auch: Ungar-Tepe) ist ein Berg im kirgisisch-usbekischen Grenzgebiet, der immer wieder Anlass für Spannungen zwischen den beiden Staaten ist. [...] Einzelnachweise [Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]- ↑ Ungar-Too Mountain history: Disputed area was recognized as belonging to Uzbekistan 10 years ago during Bakiev's tenure. Abgerufen am 16. August 2019. [...] - ↑ Ungar-Too Mountain not on list of defined border sections between Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan. Abgerufen am 16. August 2019.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-01-31): When Mirziyoyev became acting president in September 2016 after the death of predecessor Islam Karimov, Uzbek troops were occupying Ungar-Too, a mountain with a transmission relay station just inside Kyrgyzstan. [...] Ungar-Too is part of the border deal Mirziyoyev and Japarov have just signed. It is officially Kyrgyz territory now. While that might please some Kyrgyz residents of the Ungar-Too area, the part of the deal that has ceded the Kempir-Abad reservoir to Uzbekistan sparked protests from more than 1,000 people in Kyrgyz villages near the reservoir.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-03-26): Border with Uzbekistan now runs not along Ungar-Too mountain, but at the foothills: Tashiev AKIPRESS.COM - Now the border will run not along Ungar-Too, but at the foothills, Chairman of the State National Security Committee, Kamchybek Tashiev, on March 26 at a press conference...
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2016-10-04): When Mirziyaev took over as Uzbekistan's leader on September 8, Uzbek police had been occupying a hill in Kyrgyzstan, Ungar-Too, for more than two weeks. The Uzbek forces detained four Kyrgyz nationals who were working at the television relay station on Ungar-Too and refused to free them, angering Kyrgyz villagers in the area and the government in Bishkek. [...] On September 20, the Uzbek police withdrew from Ungar-Too. The same day, the pro-government website Uzdaily.uz reported that from September 14 to 20 a working group of officials from both countries had been reviewing questions of border demarcation in 23 disputed areas along the common frontier.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-03-26): According to him, the Orto-Tokoi water reservoir remains the territory of Kyrgyzstan, but will be used by Uzbekistan. «As you know, Orto-Tokoi reservoir was used by Uzbekistan by 95 percent. In accordance with the agreement, they had to transfer us a land plot equal to the area of the reservoir — more than 700 hectares — as compensation. About 200 hectares have already been transferred, 500 remained. Thanks to the reservoir, we received several disputable areas: Kok-Serek — 105 hectares, Bayastan — 212 hectares, Ak-Tash — 100 hectares, Ungar-Too — 35 hectares, Kara-Beles — 25 hectares. I would like to note that Kara-Beles was previously transfered to Uzbekistan, but we returned it,» he said. As for Ungar-Too, Kamchybek Tashiev clarified that the border line would run not along the mountain, but at its foot. «Ungar-Too itself remains our territory,» he added.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-08-09): As of an agreement in 2017, around 85 percent of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border was formally described and agreed to. But the remaining border remained undetermined, particularly when it came to the status of the Orto-Tokoi (Kasan-Sai) reservoir and Ungar-Too, a mountain that has served as a flashpoint as recently as 2016. Deescalating tensions over Ungar-Too was, in fact, one of Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s first actions as acting president in September 2016 after the death of Islam Karimov. He ordered the release of four Kyrgyz workers who had been detained by Uzbek troops and then the withdrawal of Uzbek forces.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-12-09): The most sensitive areas of the border are where Soviet infrastructure projects were later split, such as the dam of the Kasansay Water Reservoir. This reservoir sits on the territory of today’s Kyrgyz Republic but was originally financed by the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and was meant to irrigate farmland in today’s Uzbekistan. Most recently, the site hosted a tense military standoff in the spring of 2016 after Kyrgyzstan refused to admit a group of Uzbek engineers to do repair work. Later, in August of the same year, Uzbek police arrested a group of four Kyrgyz workers operating a telecommunications antenna on the summit of the disputed Ungar-Too mountain and detained them for 16 days.
Claim: Ungar-Too is a territory of Uzbekistan (Ungar-Too, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-03-30): "As you know, Orto-Tokoi reservoir was used by Uzbekistan by 95 percent. In accordance with the agreement, they had to transfer us a land plot equal to the area of the reservoir — more than 700 hectares — as compensation. About 200 hectares have already been transferred, 500 remained. Thanks to the reservoir, we received several disputable areas: Kok-Serek — 105 hectares, Bayastan — 212 hectares, Ak-Tash — 100 hectares, Ungar-Too — 35 hectares, Kara-Beles — 25 hectares." Ungar-Too, a mountain that has also featured in previous tensions, will be marked as Kyrgyz territory, with the border at its base.
Claim: Vozrozhdeniya Island is a territory of Kazakhstan (Vozrozhdeniya Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-09-23): Vozrozhdeniya Island (Russian: Остров Возрождения, IPA: [vəzrɐˈʐdʲenʲɪjə] , lit. 'Rebirth Island'; Kazakh: Возрождение аралы, Vozrojdenie araly; Uzbek: Возрождение ороли, Vozrojdeniye oroli) was an island in the Aral Sea. The former island's territory is split between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In 1954, the Soviet Union constructed a biological weapons test site called Aralsk-7 there and on the neighbouring Komsomolskiy Island, which also no longer exists.[1] Geography [edit]Vozrozhdeniya was once a small island; it was only 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi) in the nineteenth century.[2] However, in the 1960s, the island began to grow in size as the Aral Sea began drying up as the Soviet Union dammed its feeder rivers for agricultural projects.[3] The shrinkage of the Aral continued and accelerated over time, and the receding waters briefly made Vozrozhdeniya the second-largest lake island in the world, at 2,300 km2 (890 sq mi),[4] in the final days of its existence in mid-2001, becoming a peninsula when the South Aral Sea dried up enough that the island joined the mainland.[5] Upon the disappearance of the Southeast Aral Sea in 2008, Vozrozhdeniya was simply a part of the surrounding land, and by 2014 it was simply a part of the land within the extensive Aralkum Desert.
Claim: Vozrozhdeniya Island is a territory of Kazakhstan (Vozrozhdeniya Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2018-08-28): Vozrozhdeniya Island, Aral Sea [...] In 1848, A. Butakov discovered Vozrozhdeniya Island while exploring the Aral Sea. The island was initially named in honor of Tsar Nicholas I and became known as Vozrozhdeniya Island following the establishment of the USSR. It had no sources of fresh water but supported populations of saiga antelopes and waterfowl, making it a safe haven for these animals. In the early 20th century, a small settlement emerged on the island, serving as a temporary stopover for fishermen, and a small fish processing plant was also operating there. Later, from 1924 to 1926, the island was used to exile kulaks (wealthy peasants). [...] From 1960, the water level in the Aral Sea began to fall, intensifying yearly. The area of Vozrozhdeniya Island started to expand when the shoreline moved away from the town. Over time, the airfield became the sole method of communication with the island, as barges were not able to deliver water and provisions. Over 30 years, the area of Vozrozhdeniya Island increased tenfold! In 1960, it was 216 square kilometers, and by 1990, it had expanded to over 2000 kilometers. By the early 21st century, the island had become a peninsula, and by 2009, it had completely merged with the mainland.
Claim: Vozrozhdeniya Island is a territory of Kazakhstan (Vozrozhdeniya Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-02-07): Vozrozhdeniya Island formed from the end of the 16th to the beginning of 17th centuries due to the decrease of the Aral Sea level. Vozrozhdeniya Island was first discovered in 1848 during a Russian marine expedition of the Aral Sea commanded by naval officer and investigator Alexei Ivanovitch Butakov. One of the members who served as the expedition’s artist was Taras Shevchenko. [...] Vozrozhdeniya Island’s located in the middle of the Aral Sea was chosen for its characteristics: sparse vegetation, high temperature in summer, dry climate, and sandy soil which reduced the odds that pathogenic microorganisms would survive and spread. Additionally, this Island, approximately 125 kilometres from the coast, allowed scientists to believe that open-air testing on the island did not pose a threat to the rest of the country.
Claim: Vozrozhdeniya Island is a territory of Kazakhstan (Vozrozhdeniya Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2021-04-23): While the Aral Sea is jurisdictionally divided between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Vozrozhdeniye is part of Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic once part of Kazakhstan, but absorbed by Uzbekistan in 1936. [...] "Vozrozhdeniye Island is what we inherited from the former Soviet Union." [...] When the Southeast Aral Sea finally disappeared in 2008, Vozrozhdeniye Island – as a distinct geographical feature – ceased to exist.
Claim: Vozrozhdeniya Island is a territory of Kazakhstan (Vozrozhdeniya Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-09-15): Vozrozhdeniya Island (Russian: Остров Возрождения|t=Rebirth Island|a=Ru-возрождение.ogg|p=vəzrɐˈʐdʲenʲɪjə; Kazakh: Возрождение аралы, Vozrojdenie araly; Uzbek: Возрождение ороли, Vozrojdeniye oroli) was an island in the Aral Sea. The former island's territory is split between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In 1954, the Soviet Union constructed a biological weapons test site called Aralsk-7 there and on the neighbouring Komsomolskiy Island, which also no longer exists.[1] Vozrozhdeniya was once a small island; it was only in the nineteenth century.[2] However, in the 1960s, the island began to grow in size as the Aral Sea began drying up as the Soviet Union dammed its feeder rivers for agricultural projects.[3] The shrinkage of the Aral continued and accelerated over time, and the receding waters briefly made Vozrozhdeniya the second-largest fresh water island in the world, at 2300km2,[4] in the final days of its existence in mid-2001, becoming a peninsula when the South Aral Sea dried up enough that the island joined the mainland.[5] Upon the disappearance of the Southeast Aral Sea in 2008, Vozrozhdeniya was simply a part of the surrounding land, and by 2014 it was simply a part of the land within the extensive Aralkum Desert.
Claim: Vozrozhdeniya Island is a territory of Kazakhstan (Vozrozhdeniya Island, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2020-02-26): Until 1948, Vozrozhdeniya was an anonymous patch of soil among the turquoise waters of the Aral Sea. The 75-square-mile island used as a launching base for local fishermen acquired a different purpose as the Soviet government decided to transform this isolated corner of the planet into a testing ground for some of the deadliest chemical weapons in existence. Unknown in the Western world, Vozrozhdeniya Island became the host of the top-secret Aralsk-7 project. From the end of WWII to the fall of the Union, this remote territory remained a hidden site where poisons and viruses were converted into weapons. According to the BBC, anthrax was cultivated in large fermenting vats next to smallpox, bubonic plague "and exotic diseases including tularemia, brucellosis, and typhus." With the fall of the Soviet Union, the goings-on on Vozrozhdeniya gradually emerged from the shadows, and while a joint American-Uzbek operation attempted to clean up the place, reports on the safety status vary widely. What’s more, the island is no longer an island — with the evaporation of the Aral Sea, Vozrozhdeniya has become part of Uzbekistan’s Karakalpakstan desert, and the contaminated soil is now connected to the rest of Uzbekistan’s territory.