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 […]

This is a translation of the post by Provincialka published in the Russian language blog.
Each year, twenty students, who have been studying for 9 semesters (4.5 years), are sent to undergo internships at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan. It is a dream of thousands of students and potential graduates of universities of Uzbekistan, […]

When Center for Political Studies was founded by Alisher Fayzullaev, one of the first diplomats who represented our country in UK in mid-90th he couldn’t imagine that his brainchild would generate Gulnara Karimova’s interest in political studies in future.
“He gathered 20-25 most active students of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and called […]

Recently in YouTube, there was a series of videos uploaded about Uzbekistan. All of the videos are very interesting and it made me do some research on the origins of the files.
What I found out is very interesting. The videos are actually results of the OneMinutesJr workshop what was held in Uzbekistan in October […]

We had already written about Alisher Usmanov, Uzbek-born businessmen, ferrous metal and mining tycoon, Russia’s 18th richest man. Being one of the leaders of Gazprom, which has very shady reputation in business world, having a capital of $ 5.5 billion and having a 6 years prison term behind, Usmanov is one of the leading […]

This is a partly translation of the article which appeared on Centrasia website last year.

I am a mother and my eyes are burnt by tears because of thousands of kids of my country spread all over the world. I am a mother and I know how intolerably painful and hard can be parting. Just look […]

At least that’s what the State Statistics Committee of Uzbekistan reported to Kazinform. The report claims that the population of Uzbekistan increased by 82 thousand people (0.3%) from January till April of this year, which brought the population to a total of 26.7 million people  .
According to these official statistics, the population change in […]

I have been following Bunyod Bek’s stories that he has been writing for the BBC Uzbek. Today’s story reminds me a lot about five years I spent in Tashkent. First I came to study at one of the very prestigious schools (Well corrupt and full with richi guys). Education wise it was very good, […]