Fur-lined underwear has been banned in Uzbekistan after authorities deemed it too sexy
I could have guessed why the big shots in Uzbekistan did not like those furry undies. I would like to make you guys familiar with the situation we have had in Uzbekistan since several years. As you probably know the […]
Uzbekistan gives fur-lined undies the slip
Новое Узбекское Слово (The New Uzbek Word- an interesting Russian language blog mostly on Uzbekistan) has an interesting story regarding the discovery of America (here is an English article about it).
It seems that everyone is trying to stake a claim on being the first to discover the “New World.” Obviously the strongest […]
Obviosly the authorities of Uzbekistan have found another explanation to Uzbekistan’s problems and are about to announce the Internet a dangerous tool to “dehumanize” people.
Uzbekistan’s national newspaper “Halq Suzi” (The People’s Word) has an interview with the chairman of the committee for information and communication technologies of the Legislative Chamber, the lower house […]
Craig Murray, in an hour-long interview, gives his take on the ‘leaked memo affair’ and delves into his time as British ambassador in Tashkent. Watch/listen to the whole thing following this link to Democracy Now.
MOSCOW, Jan 18 (Prime-Tass) — Russia’s second-largest mobile operator VimpelCom has purchased two mobile operators in Uzbekistan, VimpelCom said in a press release Wednesday.
VimpelCom signed an agreement with Germanos SA, Panos Germanos and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to purchase Unitel LLC, the second largest cellular operator in Uzbekistan, for U.S. […]
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Professor Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University) gave a lecture at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, on January 17th titled “After Andijan: Authoritarianism, Islam, and Social Mobilization in Central Asia.”
His thesis is that the Uzbek state is now precariously weak, and much closer to collapse than […]
Freedom House, the US NGO monitoring democracy worldwide, most known for their (controversial) Freedom Tables (read here for their latest verdict on Central Asia), saw their Uzbekistan operations suspended for six months. Radio Free Europe reports that “Branka Sesto, Freedom House’s director in Uzbekistan, said it planned to appeal the decision and use all […]
Ferghana.ru has a pretty astonishing story about Anna Yakovlevna Miglovets, the widow of popular Soviet writer Yavdat Iljasov. Miglovets served as a nurse in World War II, and at the very end of the war, while Soviet Russia was occupying Berlin, dropped everything to lead a charge, despite the fact that she was […]
Germany and Uzbekistan have signed bilateral assistance agreements worth 19 million euros, reports Interfax (via TMC). The loans are being issued by the German government-owned Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), under very favourable terms (i.e. 0.75% p.a.).
While it is not new that Germany is one of Tashkent’s most reliable sources of aid, the timing of […]
