Earlier, I wrote about the explosions in ammunition storage in Kagan town that is located in 12 km from Bukhara city. The explosions were the result of a fire in the ammunition storage, which originally used to be an ammunition storage for shells and warheads for Soviet military operations Afghanistan. After the withdrawal of […]
Clean up of Tashkent on the eve of Navruz holiday from the prostitutes, homosexuals and drug-abusers and their places of dislocation shocked everyone who is interested in daily life of the capital: as information agencies informed that during “the Morality” raid more than 200 bars, 115 saunas and 70 hotels were inspected. 466 administrative […]
WOW! This was my reaction to the video report that I have uploaded below. The video report, made for CNN World Report, tells about an Uzbek guy, who is 2,44 m (aprox. 8 feet) tall! Can you believe it? It is the first time I see such talk Uzbek. His name is Isroil Hushbokov […]
Sociological Conclusions
“Physical Abuse in the Law Enforcement Bodies”
(Complied though interviews with doctors and staff working in ambulance services and trauma centers in Bukhara, Karshi, Navoi)
Primary Author: Mr.Shukhrat Ganiev, RRG member
Preliminary comments
The purpose of this study is not to reinforce perceptions of the Uzbek law enforcement agencies as a source of violence and abuse; rather, […]
A WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev, an Uzbekistani citizen (“Karimov’s son”*), who earned his championship title in the fight with an outstanding Russian heavyweight boxer Nikolai Valuev (aka Russian Giant), refused to go to the ring to defend his title in the fight with another famous Russian boxer, a WBO champion Sultan Ibragimov. As Chagaev’s […]
This is a translation of the article which originally appeared on LiveJournal website. Some parts are omitted.
So, imagine there is a charming young lady, physiologically ready for “exploits”. But what is inside her youthful mind? There is basically following: “No sex before marriage, because it is not permitted” – it means that she is morally […]
The prohibition on alcohol selling that the Uzbek government has recently passed is bringing its first results. Kamron wrote in his post about the possible results of prohibition. The one that was about the prosperity of the underground manufacturing and selling of alcohol beverages has already come out.
According to the information I got from […]
This is a translation of the post by Kamron, that originally appeared on the Russian version of neweurasia.
More than two weeks had passed since the coming into force of the decision “About measures on the further improvement of alcoholic production in retail trade”, and appreciable consequences and numerous comments of analysts had come in a […]
The UK think (-and-do) tank New Economics Foundation has recently published its Happy Planet Index, which aims to present an alternative to established indicators of well-being that are mostly confined to economic raw data.
Uzbekistan comes in third of all Central Asian and former Soviet republics (only Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have higher ratings) and […]
Since a scan of the headlines on Uzbekistan (or just scrolling down this page) paints an extremely depressing picture (human rights abuses, media crack-downs, etc.), a positive story not by the government reporting agency really stands out.
The Uzbek government has initiated a program to fight the spread of HIV and AIDS throughout the country:
In […]
