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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A short time ago there was an article on Fergana.ru about the expansion of Uzbek music culture in Kyrgyzstan. The article said that the Uzbek music and singers are very popular in Kyrgyzstan and that one can find fans both among ethnic Uzbeks and the Kyrgyz.
But Fergana.ru is a popular website in the whole Central […]

What may play a greater role in the Central Asian people’s lives than traditions and customs? The traditions and customs are peoples “manual” based on which they communicate with each other. The Uzbeks have many different traditions and customs. This time, I want to write about the wedding traditions of the Uzbeks.
The weddings play […]

This is a translation of the post by Girl of the Sands, that originally appeared on the russian version of neweurasia.
Mahalla is a very Uzbek phenomenon. No, I would say that it is more likely Eastern. The community in the east is a society. The concept of “mahalla” is a very multilayered notion.
First, its concept […]

This is a translation of the post by Girl of the Sands, that originally appeared on the russian version of neweurasia.
So, my first post will be about how people drink tea in Uzbekistan. Uzbekistani people drink tea a lot, all the time, and for long periods of time – with emotion, with appreciation, […]

This is great news for me personally, and although I haven’t worked closely with this online version of a russian-uzbek/uzbek-russian dictionary, it certainly is better than nothing. I hope everyone else finds it useful; it has random idiomatic expressions that come up when you look up a certain word, and, what makes me happy […]