Dr. Sanjar G. Umarov, a resident of Germantown, Tennnessee, is a distinguished physicist, successful entrepreneur, and internationally recognized Prisoner of Conscience currently held in the Central-Asian country of Uzbekistan. Dr. Umarov founded the Sunshine Uzbekistan Coalition, an association of civil groups and intellectuals, which sought to open a dialogue with the Government of Uzbekistan […]

Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, is one of the oldest cities in Central Asia with its history going back to BC times. Next year, Uzbekistan will celebrate the 2200th anniversary of Tashkent city.
For a long time Tashkent has been at the heart of Central Asia having closer ties with Kremlin than the other cities […]

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 […]

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 […]