Today the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Tashkent. He will stop by on his way from Germany to India (Interesting Article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). It is illustrating, that the Indian Primeminster in an unconcious way the relation between Germany and Uzbekistan (the German base in Termez) highlights. Among other things, […]
The latest weekly newsletter from the China and Eurasia Forum brings news of a new anti-drugs initiative from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). According to the report on crienglish.com:
“Delegates from SCO member countries Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China attended the meeting, in addition to the Secretariat of the SCO and the organization’s […]
The Ministry of Justice filed a civil claim to Tashkent Court demanding that ABA/CEELI cease its operations in Uzbekistan. So what unlawful conduct is incriminated to ABA/CEELI? The Ministry accuses it of engaging in activities not foreseen under its charter (legal assistance to unregistered organisations, creation and support of local NGOs) and substantive violations […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is visiting Uzbekistan on April 25th. Nathan over at Registan has a post summarizing some of the issues at stake.
Former Indian Ambassador to Uzbekistan MK Bhadrakumar wrote an interesting, if provocative, op-ed on the upcoming visit. He champions the diplomacy as India’s way of demonstrating that it is […]
Mezhdunarodnik.Ru published a rating of major events, organisations and figures that made positive contributions to the development of international relations in Russia in 2005. It is not clear how exactly they came up with some of the names on the list and whether they used some sort of polling techniques to reflect general public […]
Arena has one of the stranger articles out there about the OSCE’s visit to Uzbekistan. According to the source, the OSCE head Karel De Gucht (who RFE/RL erroneously reported had not visited Uzbekistan – a story repeated by myself here at neweurasia) asked a pointed question about Andijan, questioning whether the protesters were […]
Russian Channel One recently showed a very interesting program which among other things told a story about the mystery surrounding the exhumation of Tamerlane’s body. The legend has it that World War II broke out because Tamerlane’s tomb had been opened by Gerasimov’s expedition two days earlier, on 19 June 1941. This was said […]
