For unknown reasons, now, the opposition blog Turonzamin (www.turonzamin.com) is not accessible any more by its old URL address. The only way to access the blog is via .org extension (www.turonzamin.org). The blog was created in September of 2005 by the Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan leaded by Jahongir Muhammad (Mamatov), a political refugee living […]
Recently, all Uzbek internet forums were full of rumors about FC Barcelona’s striker Samuel Eto’o coming to Uzbekistan to sign a contract with Kuruvchi, a leading football team in Uzbek premier league. Today, at least the half of the rumor is turned out to be truth - Samuel Eto’o escorted with other three representative […]
… or blogging is dangerous for tourism in Uzbekistan.
Everyone, who is interested in Central Asia, knows that Samarkand and Bukhara are the most ancient and history-rich places in the region. And they dream about visiting these extremely beautiful places to trace the history of Central Asian nations themselves.
Today, Bukhara and Samarkard are one of […]
Uzbek people, and Central Asian nations in general, are known for their philanthropy. The Shomakhmudovs are one of the examples to prove my point. They adopted 14 orphans of different nationalities from the orphanage that was moved to Tashkent from Russia during the World War II. A monument for the Shomakhmudovs used to be […]
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 […]
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, […]
Letter from Javhar Yusufjon Oghlu, the 10-year-old son of a father who is a poet, Nobel Prize nominee, and jailed in Uzbekistan.
Dear America,
I am 10 years old but I know that there are bad people who are hurting, beating, trying to kill, and putting my daddy in jail. When I miss my daddy […]
A new source of information about our country’s life, including domestic and foreign policy, human rights and its violations, national security, history, economy, etc. was founded by immigrants living abroad in order to bring news for the international community about Uzbekistan in more or less objective way. First post was posted on the 21st […]
The Embassy of the United States in Tashkent makes a lot to provide locals (ordinary people) with access to information. Sometimes they try to provide with access to banned sources of information such as blocked internet sites and banned international reports [of the US State Department and international organizations].
Information Resource Center (IRC) based at […]
For me day starts at 10 or 10:30 a.m. You may say it’s too late. I’d agree you if you asked the same when I started internship at March while being under the impression of making internship at the governmental structure responsible for foreign affairs. But after a week I understood that staff is […]
