PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
PARIS, November 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva, permanent representative of the Republic of Uzbekistan to UNESCO and founder of Fund Uzbekistan 2020, opened today, the International Astronomy Conference held in Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris - CNRS, "A tribute to the Uzbek astronomer Mirzo Ulughbeg".
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Old trees are cut down in the center of Tashkent – the shocking news was spread in the city within a day. Photo by goricvet Planetrees, or platanus, planted at the end of the 19th century, were cut down in the public garden named after Amir Temur (Tamerlane) in Tashkent last week. As officials say, the felling [...]
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tajikistan urged a compromise with Uzbekistan that announced a pullout from the Central Asian unified power grid, which would threaten electricity supplies to neighboring states.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Sanjar Umarov, who was imprisoned on charges that his supporters said were fabricated, was granted amnesty and released from a labor camp on Nov. 7.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Sanjar Umarov, who was imprisoned on charges that his supporters said were fabricated, was granted amnesty and released from a labor camp on Nov. 7.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Musafirbek writes about a charity gala-concert, held with the support of UNICEF, attended not only by singer Cesaria Evora and soccer player Samuel Eto’o, but also by some bloggers, who were hired by an American PR firm to cover the event.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Noah Tucker reports that Sanjar Umarov, one of the most famous political prisoner in Uzbekistan, earlier charged with tax evasion and embezzlement after founding an opposition party in 2005, has been released from prison.
Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
(New York) - Uzbek authorities should ensure that an appeal hearing that began today for a human rights advocate is fair and independent, Human Rights Watch said. The activist, Farkhad Mukhtarov, was convicted of criminal charges in a trial that appeared to have been politically motivated, and he was denied the right to defend himself fully, Human Rights Watch said. read more
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Uzbekistan's recent release of a leading jailed opposition figure is stoking hopes for warmer relations between Tashkent and the West. But critics of President Islam Karimov's administration caution that the move does not signal Tashkent's intent to change its authoritarian ways.
Craig Murray (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
(With thanks again to the excellent Ken Silverstein), Gulnara Karimova is offering all expenses paid luxury junkets to Tashkent, plus a thousand dollars cash in the pocket, to US bloggers willing to blog about Uzbekistan without mentioning torture, massacre, dictatorship, slavery or environmental destruction. http://harpers.org/archive/2009/11/hbc-90006092 As Obama has entered into a renewed military...
Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
(New York) - Uzbek authorities should immediately stop their new harassment campaign against political activists and human rights defenders, Human Rights Watch said today. Since November 7, 2009, local authorities in six locations have detained at least seven activists and beaten three of them, one of whom sought hospital treatment. read more
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
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Craig Murray (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
I have been watching the various celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall from the unusual vantage point of Accra. I have no mixed feelings over the fall of Soviet communist control over Europe. I don't think Reagan's use of the phrase "Evil empire" was wrong. The Americans have of course embarked on a new enthusiasm for their own evil empire since. The euphoria of the spread of freedom...
ProjectDisaster (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
COMMENT: What in the hell is wrong with people? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/nyregion/10powder.html November 10, 2009 Powder Sent to 3 U.N. Foreign Missions By DERRICK HENRY A white powder was mailed to three United Nations foreign missions in Manhattan office buildings on Monday, but no one was harmed by it, the police said. The powder, delivered in envelopes, was reported by workers at the [...]...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Musafirbek says that the president of Uzbekistan officially thanked the cotton-growers for gathering the harvest of this strategic product for Uzbekistan. However, those who sweat away, collecting this cotton (including children) were not mentioned in the president’s address.
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