Hi. A few months ago the hard-drive on my iBook went kaput and I lost all my music (please, spare the lecture on why I should’ve backed up all my data … I know!) Anyway, I’ve been trying as best I can to restore my collection from memory. The relevance here is that I […]

Jamshid Karimov, a 39 years old independent journalist and nephew of the president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, is still kept in the Samarkand Special Psychiatric Hospital. He disappeared in Jizzakh city on 12 December 2006. Later, it was found that he was forcibly taken to undergo treatment in the above-mentioned mental hospital. […]

Alain Deletroz of International Crisis Group (ICG) has written a fairly fierce condemnation of EU-Uzbek relations for European Voice. With the three-monthly review of sanctions imposed in November 2006 due imminently, and the EU apparently considering a ’softer’ approach towards Central Asia (as Nathan at Registan reported recently), Mr Deletroz poses some blunt questions:
‘But […]

The World Bank announced at the beginning of February, that they would support the building of civil society in Uzbekistan. This is the good news. The more tricky one is that the implementing partner is NANAOUZ. Going through teh website of NANAOUZ one can read all the phrases that are common to many international […]