Today is one of the most important days in Uzbekistan. Seventy years ago, in 1938, on this day a child was born in Uzbekistan, who later, begginning from 1989, would change the history of the country. Change…literally. Today is the seventy years birthday of the president of Uzbekistan Islam Abduganievich Karimov. Islam Karimov has […]
The beloved football team of Uzbekistan Pakhtakor lost in finals of Commonwealth Champions Cup to Azderbaijani football team Khazar-Lenkoran with the score 3:4. The match was hold on January 27 in Russian city St Petersburg. The stadium was full of fans. Even though the match was hold in Russia, there were a lot of […]
On 25 January semi-finals of the Commonwealth Champions Cup of the CIS and the Baltic States took place. Uzbek football team Pakhtakor won Lithuanian Kaunas - 3:1 and thus Uzbeks, current holders of the cup, qualified for the final. Pakhtakor’s final game will be against young Azerbaijani football team Khazar-Lankoran. The match will be […]
Nadira Alieva, Craig Murray’s Uzbek girlfriend, told the British tabloid press how difficult it had been arriving in the UK with the former ambassador back in December. The story took on some uncharming shades and revealed maybe too much of the couple’s private life.
After overcoming the initial financial hardships that made the couple eat toast […]
As I am from Berlin (which is, to my knowledge, still without a proper Uzbek restaurant) and have lived some years in London (where there is at least Shish, a Central Asian eatery), news like this is very relevant: It demonstrates how Eastern Europe is slowly overtaking the West in terms of culinary variety.
The […]
A very interesting video of the discussion between Natalia Antaleva, a BBC correspondent based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Shohida Tolaganova, an Uzbek journalist and filmmaker based in London, and Craig Murray, an ex-ambassador of UK to Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2004 (married to an Uzbek woman). The topic of the discussion is “Uzbekistan - repression […]
“I swear to serve the people of Uzbekistan, honor the Constitution and the law, guarantee rights and freedoms of citizens of the republic, and perform functions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the best of my ability.” Mr. Islam Karimov, inauguration speech, January 16, 2008.
“I swear to serve the people of Uzbekistan…”, […]
A teenager from the academic school in Samarqand, Maruf Karimov, invented a “perpetual” car engine powered by a very unusual kind of fuel - air! The student managed to start a conventional internal combustion engine with the help of air pressure, News Agency Ferghana.ru reports.
The report also says that Maruf Karimov is only 15 […]
Continuing the topic of labor migrants. Here are photos taken by the member of the Rapid Response Group during conducting the research on Uzbek labor migrants going to Russia.
In this photos you can see the names and mobile phone numbers of people, who promise work places for people and send them to Russia and […]
It is not a secret any more that a great part of male population of Uzbekistan, mainly from rural areas, annually leave their homes and families and travel mostly to Russia and Kazakhstan in search of money for living. All are driven by the same factor - financial. The money and the food they […]
