Comments on: Welcome, Navruz! The Ocassion of the People of the Happiest Country in the World!!! http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/ Open discussion about current issues in Uzbekistan Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:09:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: visitor http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/#comment-35768 visitor Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:22:01 +0000 http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/#comment-35768 was babur the invader of India a Uzbek? or turkish-mongol? How do you remember babur? In a good or bad way? I se epictures of uzbeks and they look like mongols/chinese? Is this how most uzbeks look like? Why do you celebrate persian festival of nauroz? what is the standard foods you eat? any recipes? was babur the invader of India a Uzbek? or turkish-mongol? How do you remember babur? In a good or bad way?
I se epictures of uzbeks and they look like mongols/chinese? Is this how most uzbeks look like? Why do you celebrate persian festival of nauroz? what is the standard foods you eat? any recipes?

]]> By: Mansurhon http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/#comment-35143 Mansurhon Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:31:29 +0000 http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/#comment-35143 Uzbek From the Valley, i do appreciate your intertest and criticism, but its how we understand the event. we'd be hapy to have your own opinion and more analytical approach. Uzbek From the Valley, i do appreciate your intertest and criticism, but its how we understand the event. we’d be hapy to have your own opinion and more analytical approach.

]]> By: Uzbek From the Valley http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/#comment-35093 Uzbek From the Valley Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:52:36 +0000 http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/#comment-35093 =============================================== Navruz, just like other popular holidays in Uzbekistan, Navruz requires lots of “sacrifices”. Every year, thousands of students are forced to clean the streets and moldy territories during Navruz eve, to wave colored flags during concert, participate in theatrical shows. ================================================= Come on guys, don't lose your sanity, there is nothing wrong with cleaning up the streets!!! The US embassy is organizing an event to clean up a park in Tashkent! Students do all kinds of activities in all countries throughout the world! Students used to do this during the Soviet times too. Students in Uzbekistan miss more classes to play a computer cames than cleaning up the streets. ============================================ Back to the colorful event – the concert, the whole action repeats every year: boring national dances ============================================ Did you expect some Russian pop stars to perform for you in our national holiday? For Gods sake, if you don't like our national songs, national holidays that involves cleaning the streets, just ignore it live your own life. You don't have to whine about it. Instead of just outpouring your emotions give some arguments about why do you disagree with, for example students should not clean streets, or the stats you quoted from the presidents speech is wrong. Why did you quote his speech if you can't give one reasonable argument? ================================== n 2007 53,8 % of the sate budget was aimed at social sphere, in 2008 this indicator will achieve 54,6 %. Such figures are rare for other countries.” =================================== If I were you, I would have written: What constitutes the 'state budget for social sphere' in Uzbekistan? The huge chunk of it goes to pensions, student stipends, and maintanance of various cultural ministries and agencies. It also includes education and health care and therefore it makes such bulk of total budget. The other states do not have so big percentages because: 1. Most of services are provided by private companies or maintained privately or classify them under different budget lines. 2. The actual per capita share of their expenses on 'social expences' by far exceeds the Uzbek per capita share even though the Uzbek total budget share is 50% and theirs might be no more than 20%, because the Uzbek budget is tiny. That would make an argument....not just whining like a.... ===============================================
Navruz, just like other popular holidays in Uzbekistan, Navruz requires lots of “sacrifices”. Every year, thousands of students are forced to clean the streets and moldy territories during Navruz eve, to wave colored flags during concert, participate in theatrical shows.
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Come on guys, don’t lose your sanity, there is nothing wrong with cleaning up the streets!!! The US embassy is organizing an event to clean up a park in Tashkent!
Students do all kinds of activities in all countries throughout the world! Students used to do this during the Soviet times too. Students in Uzbekistan miss more classes to play a computer cames than cleaning up the streets.

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Back to the colorful event – the concert, the whole action repeats every year: boring national dances
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Did you expect some Russian pop stars to perform for you in our national holiday? For Gods sake, if you don’t like our national songs, national holidays that involves cleaning the streets, just ignore it live your own life. You don’t have to whine about it.
Instead of just outpouring your emotions give some arguments about why do you disagree with, for example students should not clean streets, or the stats you quoted from the presidents speech is wrong. Why did you quote his speech if you can’t give one reasonable argument?

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n 2007 53,8 % of the sate budget was aimed at social sphere, in 2008 this indicator will achieve 54,6 %. Such figures are rare for other countries.”
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If I were you, I would have written:
What constitutes the ’state budget for social sphere’ in Uzbekistan? The huge chunk of it goes to pensions, student stipends, and maintanance of various cultural ministries and agencies. It also includes education and health care and therefore it makes such bulk of total budget. The other states do not have so big percentages because:
1. Most of services are provided by private companies or maintained privately or classify them under different budget lines.
2. The actual per capita share of their expenses on ’social expences’ by far exceeds the Uzbek per capita share even though the Uzbek total budget share is 50% and theirs might be no more than 20%, because the Uzbek budget is tiny. That would make an argument….not just whining like a….

]]> By: Musafirbek http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/#comment-35083 Musafirbek Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:51:14 +0000 http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/#comment-35083 Karimov's habit to follow his own stupid ideas became smth like sweet illusion he believes himself and doesn't want to realize, that everything he had done for "his country" is nothing but stealing people's property in the way of forced obligation i don't trust him anymore Karimov’s habit to follow his own stupid ideas became smth like sweet illusion he believes himself and doesn’t want to realize, that everything he had done for “his country” is nothing but stealing people’s property in the way of forced obligation

i don’t trust him anymore

]]> By: Samantha http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/#comment-35078 Samantha Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:50:08 +0000 http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/#comment-35078 First it was picking cotton in the heat and now it is scrubbing the streets?!? What the hell, Karimov? These are a schoolchildren. Instead of making them do your dirty work (literally), let them go to class and learn, so they can be productive members of society. "During Navruz our ancestors rushed to help orphans, lone elderly people, provide aid and charity to them." I think Karimov and his cronies should follow this themselves.... First it was picking cotton in the heat and now it is scrubbing the streets?!? What the hell, Karimov? These are a schoolchildren. Instead of making them do your dirty work (literally), let them go to class and learn, so they can be productive members of society.

“During Navruz our ancestors rushed to help orphans, lone elderly people, provide aid and charity to them.” I think Karimov and his cronies should follow this themselves….

]]> By: Ataman Rakin http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/#comment-35073 Ataman Rakin Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:03:43 +0000 http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2008/03/22/welcome-navruz-the-ocassion-of-the-people-of-the-happiest-country-in-the-world/#comment-35073 :) Good piece. BTW, Nawruz mobarak to you and all of good faith. It's only a pity that a meaningful Central Asian celebration has been recuperated and turned into a hollow carnival by the Kafirov regime. "Does Islam Karimov believe his own words himself?" I wonder sometimes about this too. Ceaucesu, Romania's equivalnet of Karimov and Turkmenbashi at the time, was totally disconnected and isolated from reality by his wife and ad and entourage of apparachiks who did not wanted or dared to tell him the truth. But Karimov, like Milosevic and Saddam, is not stupid to that extent. He (and his daughter) are evil. Probably they are convinced that their subjects and the 'international community' are so stupid to buy into the rethoric and that they can take them for a ride as they wish. To a certain extent, they (esp. foreign diplomats, IFI reps, etc... ) do. :) Good piece.

BTW, Nawruz mobarak to you and all of good faith.

It’s only a pity that a meaningful Central Asian celebration has been recuperated and turned into a hollow carnival by the Kafirov regime.

“Does Islam Karimov believe his own words himself?”

I wonder sometimes about this too. Ceaucesu, Romania’s equivalnet of Karimov and Turkmenbashi at the time, was totally disconnected and isolated from reality by his wife and ad and entourage of apparachiks who did not wanted or dared to tell him the truth.

But Karimov, like Milosevic and Saddam, is not stupid to that extent. He (and his daughter) are evil. Probably they are convinced that their subjects and the ‘international community’ are so stupid to buy into the rethoric and that they can take them for a ride as they wish. To a certain extent, they (esp. foreign diplomats, IFI reps, etc… ) do.

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