“I swear to serve the people of Uzbekistan, honor the Constitution and the law, guarantee rights and freedoms of citizens of the republic, and perform functions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the best of my ability.” Mr. Islam Karimov, inauguration speech, January 16, 2008.
“I swear to serve the people of Uzbekistan…”, […]

As usual our President announced his New Year message to the people of Uzbekistan. As usual it was a set of banal words and only naive people could listen to such a nonsense without a sarcasm.
Karimov says that “each of us, gathered for a festive table, unwillingly thoughts returned to the unforgettable events, […]

This post is part of the crossblog survey “2007 in retrospect”. You can also vote on the most important event of 2007 in our online poll.
In 2007, the English blog of Uzbekistan in Neweurasia has covered a wide range of topics on the events that significantly affected the life in Uzbekistan. The […]

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. […]

Only four candidates out of six were given a “green light” by Central Election Committee to start their pre-election campaign. All leading newspapers and internet sites of the country have published biographies and programs of all four candidates. All of them are in Russian. Once the English versions are available, we will post them […]

Previously, we wrote about the upcoming elections in Uzbekistan and about the pre-election campaign activities of the candidates. Initially six, but currently four (two of them dropped out, as they could not collect 5% of electorates signatures) candidates for presidency have already publicized their programs (platform). You can have a look at them here, […]

According to the latest news coming from Uzbekistan, the circle of candidates for presidency is becoming narrower from day to day. Two out of six candidates are already out of the process. They are candidates of two relatively small political parties – Hurshid Dustmuhammad slated by Uzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party, and Ahtam Tursunov […]

Finally, the central election committee of Uzbekistan had reported that there would be presidential election later this year. As the chairman of the committee Mirzoulugbek Abdusalomov informed mass media, the election will be held on December 23, 2007, as it is dictated by election laws - the first Sunday of the 3rd decade of […]

Research center for the study of public opinion “Ijtimoiy Fikr“, an Uzbek governmental agency in its core, has once again conducted an opinion poll(UZB), and has found out that the majority of the population of Uzbekistan support their president Islam Karimov. Ladies and gentlemen, you may accept it as an Uzbek government response to […]

Last week the President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, visited the eastern provinces of Namangan and Andijan. Both of the provinces are known as the most densely populated regions and have very conservative communities. Residents of these provinces have always been critical of the current government, thus constitute the most problematic regions of the republic […]