Here is the video made by a Bukhara resident the day after the explosions in Kagan town of Bukhara region. He claims that this is a bomb shell that was thrown to 15 kilometers during the explosions. It does not really look like a bomb shell. However, that fact that it flew 15 km […]
Today early in the morning, I was chatting in G’chat with my friend from Bukhara. At about 2 am (Uzbek time) he was suddenly gone and did not answer my messages for like 10-15 minutes. I was already thinking that he fell asleep, but he returned back writing that there were a series of […]
Uzbek people, and Central Asian nations in general, are known for their philanthropy. The Shomakhmudovs are one of the examples to prove my point. They adopted 14 orphans of different nationalities from the orphanage that was moved to Tashkent from Russia during the World War II. A monument for the Shomakhmudovs used to be […]
Recently, Mansurhon wrote about Uzbekistan paving its way to the World Cup 2010 in qualifying games of FIFA World Cup™ Asian. In his post, he has also mentioned that the next group match would be between the leaders of the group Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia, who had been already qualified to the next stage. […]
Until the match with Lebanon, Uzbekistan has been confidently leading in his group in qualifying games of FIFA World Cup™ Asian. After beating the Lebanon in Tashkent on June 14 with the score 3:00, Uzbekistan granted a place for itself in the next round of qualifying games.
FIFA writes:
Uzbekistan reclaimed top spot Group […]
His name must not be unfamiliar for those who like Uzbek musical instruments. Abbos Kosimov is a living legend among Uzbek musicians. Not a single event in Uzbekistan is hold without his or his bands participation. In his hands, doira seems to become alive.
A few notes for those who may not know what […]
The Ilkhom Theater, a legendary theater founded by a murdered Mark Weil, is traveling through the world showing their best performances to the admirers of acting. Today, they are in the United States. Here is the video on how the audience reacted to Ilkhom’s acting after their Seattle debut.
Very soon, Ilkom will hit the […]
What maybe more pleasant than hearing the sound of karnai (weddning horn) early in the morning from a wedding party in your neighbourhood that calls everyone to come and taste a wedding plov or shurva (soup)? What may be more pleasant than eating plov or shurva at nonushta (early morning meal for neighbours and relatives at weddings - lit. translated […]
As I am from Berlin (which is, to my knowledge, still without a proper Uzbek restaurant) and have lived some years in London (where there is at least Shish, a Central Asian eatery), news like this is very relevant: It demonstrates how Eastern Europe is slowly overtaking the West in terms of culinary variety.
The […]
A very interesting video of the discussion between Natalia Antaleva, a BBC correspondent based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Shohida Tolaganova, an Uzbek journalist and filmmaker based in London, and Craig Murray, an ex-ambassador of UK to Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2004 (married to an Uzbek woman). The topic of the discussion is “Uzbekistan - repression […]
