In the steppe near Tashkent they came upon a never-ending ladder with wooden rungs and iron rails and that stretched across the earth from horizon to horizon. (…) Whistling and thundering, a snake-like wonder hurtled past them, packed both on the inside and on top with infidels shouting and waving their hands. ‘The End […]
This May Bukhara will host the 7th annual Silk & Spice Festival
In 2005 UNAIDS reported that Uzbekistan had more than 5,600 officially recognised HIV cases (pdf). It said:
“Among the Central Asian republics, Uzbekistan is experiencing the most dynamic epidemic. In 1999, just 28 HIV diagnoses were reported there; last year there were 2016 new HIV infections, bringing to more than 5600 the total number of […]
The article that was supposed to describe a rapid growth of private tourism business in Bukhara was published in the Impressions (the British Mediterranian inflight magazine). Miss Leisa Tyler a free lance Australia based writer after several month of working together with the Bukhara Association of Small Tourism Enterprise has come up with […]
Swiss development projects are lauded throughout the EU and OSCE for their effectiveness and participatory approach - and Switzerland and Central Asia - that has usually been a story of successful development assistance.
Lovingly referred to as ‘Helvetistan’, Switzerland since 1992 also acts as the chairman of a voting group within the World Bank […]
This is great news for me personally, and although I haven’t worked closely with this online version of a russian-uzbek/uzbek-russian dictionary, it certainly is better than nothing. I hope everyone else finds it useful; it has random idiomatic expressions that come up when you look up a certain word, and, what makes me happy […]
I actually had to buy the e-paper of the current Spiegel edition to get clearer information about the claim that Germany might have to leave its base in Termez (see earlier post). It’s by no means certain yet. My hasty translation follows.
Sharp note to the Germans
The Bundeswehr has to fear for the future of […]
According to Ferghana.ru, Germany won’t get its lease for the base in Termez renewed:
Der Spiegel reports that the Uzbek Foreign Ministry “all of a sudden” announced that the base lease accord might be annulled because “along with its own servicemen, Germany airlifted over 400 men from the United States, Hungary, and Denmark via Termez, […]
The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) has just released its fifth annual Media Sustainability Index (download full MSI 2005 here). Unsurprisingly, Uzbekistan is rated pretty poorly - in all the four main criteria by which the report measures sustainable independent media, Uzbekistan scores less than 1 i.e.
“Country does not meet or only minimally […]
