· November, 2006

Stories about Uzbekistan from November, 2006

Uzbekistan: Boysun

  30 November 2006

Novoye Uzbekskoye Slovo has photos from Boysun, a place he says is a must to visit in the spring.

Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus

  27 November 2006

Astana (Kazakhstan) – Waiting for a bus – photograph taken by Richard Messenger (Many more bus stops here) While we're waiting for the bus, why not check out some of this week's highlights from the Central Asian and Caucasian blogosphere, brought to you bi-weekly by neweurasia? Web 2.0 in Central...

Arabisc: Plagiarism, Arrests, Bans and Democracy!

  23 November 2006

The Arabs are as usual busy this week debating anything and everything, from plagiarism to the arrest of bloggers, and from banning public meetings to embarrising George Bush Senior at a conference held in the UAE. Ahmed from Egypt had always wanted to become a journalist. But because not all...

Uzbekistan: Gulnara Antoinette

21 November 2006

Sean Roberts reports on Uzbekistan's imaginary middle class and compares the daughter of the country's president to Marie Antoinette.

Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus

  10 November 2006

Club in Almaty/Kazakhstan – (c) Christopher Herwig – www.herwigphoto.com Welcome to the latest roundup of the Central Asian and Caucasian blogospheres. A lot has happened over the past two weeks – so let's get down to business straightaway. Political crisis in Kyrgyzstan… The stalemate between opposition and the Bakiyev/Kulov administration...

Uzbekistan: EU Sanctions

  8 November 2006

Registan.net discusses the calls of NGOs for the European Union to extend its sanctions against Uzbekistan and analyzes what choices are available to Europe and the consequences of those choices.