Recently, all leading state-controlled TV companies in Uzbekistan had broadcast an about hour long program about the Radio Ozodlik (RFE/RL Uzbek service), where they accused the RFE/RL Uzbek service staff of being “traitors” who bring “unfriendly” messages into the country and thus attempt to destabilize the situation in Uzbekistan. The program was broadcast at […]

International conference titled «Freedom of the media in a modern democracy» was held in Tashkent on June 9-10. Among organizers there were progovernmental Institute for Civil Society Studies, Regional Politics Foundation, and the Uzbek National Center for Human Rights.
According to President’s press-service, the conference attracted journalists and experts from Great Britain, Germany, Egypt, Israel, […]

The BBC World Service has produced a documentary about the murdered Tashkent theatre director Mark Weil (guardian obituary here). The documentary is called ‘Beyond Mark Weil’ and is presented by the always excellent Natalya Antaleva. Weil, a Russian Jew, founded the Ilkhom Theatre in 1976. It was the first independent theatre in the USSR […]

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 […]

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 […]

It seems that Islam Karimov, current president of Uzbekistan, who has been leading the country for almost twenty years, is again reshuffling high ranking officials in the country. Recently, one of the key figures of Uzbek politics Anvar Nabiev, a Deputy Prosecutor General, was taken into custody for some unknown reasons. Today, there are […]

These are the topics that are covered in the latest International Crisis Group report on Uzbekistan Political Murder in Central Asia: No Time to End Uzbekistan’s Isolation. The ICG report as usually deeply elaborates on the existing problems of Uzbekistan giving in-depth analyzes on each topic. Not surprisingly, the murder of a young prominent […]

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, […]

Information Agency Fergana.Ru is known for its timely and objectively given information about Central Asian countries. Its council of experts includes famous historians, journalists and political analysts from different countries of CIS. The information that Fergana.ru gives is very often used as a credible source in many academic writings. Therefore, it has a big […]

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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