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Tolkun

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11 April 2008

Uzbekistan: Yusuf Juma, a Martyr Poet

Today, in Uzbekistan, where free voices are being severely silenced, practically no one dares not even to promote, but just to express anti-governmental ideas. But this is not the case...

3 April 2008

Uzbekistan: Blogging fosters freedom of speech

Recently, the U.S. State Department has ranked Uzbekistan among “top ten” of the most authoritarian countries in the world. During almost two decades of his reign, president I. Karimov and...

17 March 2008

Uzbekistan: Foreign Policy Perturbations

The Uzbek regime's violent suppression of the uprising in Andijan in May 2005 was a turning point in the country's foreign policy. The government did not allow EU to investigate...

15 February 2008

Uzbekistan: Abnormal Cold, End of “Nirvana” and Genderwise Realpolitik

The abnormally low temperature that lasted in the region for a record-breaking long time seems to have its effect not only on Uzbek-Tajik relations but on the Uzbek blogosphere too...

28 November 2007

Uzbekistan: Stop Deportation of Asylum Seeker!

“Until this day I believed in freedom of media and its role in civil liberties in this country [Great Britain]. But information I have read today slightly changed my mind”,...

9 November 2007

Uzbekistan: A Great Loss for the Nation

A great loss for the whole nation: such was the reaction of Central Asian - especially Uzbek - blogosphere to the assassination of Alisher Saipov, a prominent journalist from Osh,...

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