Uzbek, Chinese archaeologists jointly excavate ancient capital of Fergana

16.01.2017 13:20 msk Business Central Asia China Ferghana Valley Interview Kyrgyzstan Politics Uzbekistan

“Chinese and Uzbek archaeologists rewrite the history of an ancient city.” China’s Xinhua news agency carried a report under this title on January 11, 2017, which cites a forum on archaeology of the Academy of Public Sciences of China. According to the report, a group of archaeologists from China an

Poet to new Uzbek president: Let’s experiment!

07.12.2016 09:27 msk Analytics Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan

President-elect of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev

Apricot pits or Why was Yekaterina Sajneva deported from Uzbekistan

01.12.2016 10:39 msk Human Rights Interview Politics Russia Uzbekistan

A plane Russian citizen Yekaterian Sajneva was in landed in Uzbekistan on November 27. Ms Sajneva is a journalist for the Moskovskiy Komsomolets newspaper, who has been in Uzbekistan several times. She now has friends in Tashkent and Bukhara; she fell in love with this country; and she visited Naman

Uzbekistan: Stop punitive psychiatry on Jamshid Karimov!

25.11.2016 09:14 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

An appeal by friends and colleagues of a journalist who is forced into containment in a psychiatric clinic in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan and Turkey: A handshake over the grave

23.11.2016 07:34 msk Analytics Politics Turkey, Republic of Uzbekistan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev

NATO Liaison Office in Tashkent to close, but alliance to continue cooperation in region

17.11.2016 17:52 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia Interview Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

Rosaria Puglisi, NATO Liaison Officer to Central Asia, Head of Office

Living in someone else’s life. The story of a transgender woman from Tajikistan (18+)

14.11.2016 10:50 msk Human Rights Interview Uzbekistan

Until very recently, she had a male name and surname as well as men’s clothes. However, she confesses, she never felt comfortable in a men’s body. She wanted to wear dresses, use mascara and feel herself a real woman. She felt herself to be a woman since she was a child but did not know what to do a

Public politics gradually emerging in Uzbekistan. What’s next—freedom of speech?

30.10.2016 10:26 msk Analytics Politics Uzbekistan

Following the death of the first president of Uzbekistan, the public learnt there are other orators and politicians in Uzbekistan alongside the late head of state. The Uzbek population, as well as the greater world, is learning day by day about new faces and names. Perhaps Uzbek citizens will start

Uzbekistan: Everyone, yes, everyone is picking cotton. But two women taking photos

19.10.2016 10:42 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is planning to decrease the amount of manual labour in agriculture, in cotton cultivation in particular, by 30 per cent. The issue was discussed in print materials distributed during the 12th International Cotton and Textile Fair recently held in Tashkent. Interestingly, three fairs ago i

Central Asian Survey: Uzbekistan Forum and Virtual Special Issue

01.10.2016 08:35 msk Central Asia Media Review Politics Uzbekistan

The passing of Islom Karimov, the first president of independent Uzbekistan, in the late summer of 2016 raises important questions for the whole Central Asian region and for those who study it. Amid the clamour of media coverage about prospects for change under the leadership of interim President Sh

Who was Uzbekistan's Islam Karimov?

03.09.2016 12:37 msk Politics Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan: testing your cheating speed, or “Hares”, “Runners” and ten thousand dollars

12.08.2016 19:31 msk Human Rights Interview Uzbekistan

“Welcome!”, reads a sign at the entrance to a university in Tashkent. “To what?” one may ask, “to a world of bribes, lies and hypocrisy?” The results of the August 1st nationwide entrance exams to all universities in Uzbekistan will be announced in the next few days. Despite the countless measures t

«Hizb ut-Tahrir» and Donald Trump: mutual contempt

15.06.2016 15:31 msk Analytics Central Asia Human Rights Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life Tajikistan Uzbekistan

Islamophobia as a tool for pre-election race

Lost childhood in the «Caliphate»

20.05.2016 17:05 msk Analytics Central Asia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Religious life Tajikistan Uzbekistan

ISIS prepares suicide children bombers from Central Asia

Washington and Sanjar Umarov want to shed light on Uzbek Kleptocracy money

27.04.2016 02:27 msk Analytics Business Interview Politics Uzbekistan

A public discussion to address the issue of where the Uzbek funds frozen in Swiss banks could be directed, took place in Washington, DC, on April 20.

Uzbek expert criticizes World Bank over monitoring of forced labour

09.12.2015 19:06 msk Analytics Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan

In late November, the International Labour Organization (ILO) in collaboration with the World Bank published the monitoring results of the use of child and forced labour during the cotton harvest in 2015 in Uzbekistan . The experts of the ILO, as the report says, «could not find conclusive evidence