Looking through webblogs on Uzbekistan I’ve found out a blog of Gerchik whose posts seemed to me too radical for Uzbek living in Uzbekistan and writing a blog being in the country.
In his last post he’s given reasons to leave Uzbekistan. I’m listing them you in order to make you understand how it is […]

Over the next month, TOL and neweurasia are accepting submissions for the Best Central Asia Blog Awards. There are several prizes to be won, and the overall winner will get to go to the next Global Voices conference in 2008.

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Living in Uzbekistan and being a journalist is really difficult, especially nowadays, as with upcoming presidential elections the Uzbek government is doing its best to put tighter control on all kinds of media (printed, broadcasted and online) in the country. Journalists from Uzbekistan say that today media in Uzbekistan is suffering its worst days. […]

Recently, when I was surfing the internet seeking for newly emerged blogs on Uzbekistan, I came across to the blog From the Trenches of Adoption, kept by the Riebens family, who were planning to adopt an Uzbek child with a rare birth defect known as phocomelia of the legs. In the blog, they write […]

Yesterday, to my great surprise and pleasure, I found out that blogs on the platform Blogspot.com are now accessible to internet users in Uzbekistan. Before, the platform was shut down due to the Uzbek government’s assiduous attempts to control the internet, especially blogs, as blogs are commonly used by dissidents and opposition to criticize […]

Lately, the Uzbek government has been taking really severe, critical approach to blogs. The proof to my point is the recent blockade of the blog Khorezm by the Uzbek censorship. It is strange though. Khorezm does not really have anything against the current regime or government individuals. All it has is reporting on ordinary […]