Recently, Mansurhon wrote about Uzbekistan paving its way to the World Cup 2010 in qualifying games of FIFA World Cup™ Asian. In his post, he has also mentioned that the next group match would be between the leaders of the group Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia, who had been already qualified to the next stage. […]
This is a translation of Elena’s post that was originally published here.
Recently, Avas Saipov, father of a journalist Alisher Saipov, who was murdered on October 24, 2007, sent open letter to the presidents of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Information Agency Fergana.ru published excerpts of Avas Saipov’s letter. In his letter, Saipov senior addresses the president of […]
Until the match with Lebanon, Uzbekistan has been confidently leading in his group in qualifying games of FIFA World Cup™ Asian. After beating the Lebanon in Tashkent on June 14 with the score 3:00, Uzbekistan granted a place for itself in the next round of qualifying games.
FIFA writes:
Uzbekistan reclaimed top spot Group […]
Recently, on June 14-15, the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek hosted a trade fair in which Uzbek handicraftsmen presented their work to Kyrgyz audience/customers. A fair was not that big, but one could find very interesting things done by skilled handicraft workers – from small ceramic statues of old Uzbek men holding either non (flat Uzbek […]
“Even if there is one person in the concert hall, I will sing!”
Philipp Kirkorov, a famous Russian singer and producer.
The concert of Dado and DJ Piligrim was canceled for unknown reasons. However, rumors say that the singers refused to go to the stage due to the low number of the audience.
Thereby, our […]
International conference titled «Freedom of the media in a modern democracy» was held in Tashkent on June 9-10. Among organizers there were progovernmental Institute for Civil Society Studies, Regional Politics Foundation, and the Uzbek National Center for Human Rights.
According to President’s press-service, the conference attracted journalists and experts from Great Britain, Germany, Egypt, Israel, […]
Continuing the topic on water… The recent heavy rainfall in Tashkent city caught people napping, as no one was ready for such a shower with elements of hail. Please, see the results.
Low water level in the Toktogul dam of Kyrgyzstan may have a bad impact on Uzbek agriculture, for Toktogul is the main water reservoir in Fergana Valley, and Uzbekistan is already having problems with irrigation of cotton fields in its Fergana valley part. The abnormal weather – very cold winter that already changed to […]
The Norwegian Helsinki Committee is glad to announce that a Small Grants Program for Uzbekistan has been established.Norwegian Helsinki Committee was founded in 1977. The activity of the NHC is based on the principles of the Helsinki Declaration from 1975, signed by 35 European and North-American countries on the Conference on Security and Cooperation […]
