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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 [...]
Airline News & Opinions (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The flag carrier airline of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan Airways has signed a code share agreement with Czech Airlines the Czech national airline. Thus under Uzbekistan Airways and Czech Airlines code share agreement, Czech Airlines will now have the chance to provide flight between Prague and Tashkent to all its passengers. The flight between flight between Prague [...]
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The growing European flu scare is causing government to restrict travel between countries. Reuters : Uzbekistan has closed its border with central Asian neighbor Kazakhstan to all but citizens of each nation returning home, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on Monday, as swine flu spreads in both countries. Kazakh media and residents of the Uzbek capital Tashkent have connected the move to fears about...
uzbekistan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Last week Tashkent hosted a gala-concert of Yangi Avlod (Uzbek, New generation) festival of organized and presented by the Fund Forum and Kamalak (Uzbek, Rainbow; sister organization of Kamolot) with the support of the United ...
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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) | 15/11/2009
(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...
Page F30 (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Here's what it looks like to watch the dawn break from your building in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. View Larger Map
Craig Murray (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Since his creative juices dried up, Gordon Sumner aka Sting has received most publicity for his very public environmentalism. As in The Rainforest Foundation was founded in 1989 by Sting and his wife Trudie Styler, after they saw first-hand the destruction of the Amazon rainforests, and the devastating impact it had on the lives of the indigenous peoples who lived there. Not, you would think, the...
trucks world news (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
London,UK - HGV UK -November 13, 2009: -- The International Road Transport Union has spearheaded an historic initiative with representatives from China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, who have decided to activate a trilateral Agreement signed in 1998 to facilitate international road transport along the Tashkent – Andizhan – Sarytash – Irkeshtam – Kashgar highway... This Agreement...
Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A short while back I noted here that Gulnara Karomivoa, daughter and henchwoman of Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov, had recently hosted rock star Sting in Tashkent, the nation’s capital. Sting took in a fashion show and other events with Gulnara, whose father’s regime killed one prisoner by immersion in boiling water, and in 2005 slaughtered hundreds of protesters in the town of Andijan. “The...
Craig Murray (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
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...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, November 11 /PRNewswire/ --
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I am grateful to Simon Mann and Mark Thatcher for one thing. They have made it marginally easier to remember the capitals of smaller African countries, a subset of general knowledge of which I am fond but in which I am deficient. There is a better chance now that Malabo will stick in my mind, not least because I know that it is on the island of Bioko, formerly Fernando Po, which is part of the territory...
The Final Redoubt (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Craig John Murray (born 17 October 1958) is a human rights activist, writer, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Rector of the University of Dundee and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Lancaster School of Law. While at the embassy in Tashkent, he accused the Karimov administration of human rights abuses, a step which, he argued, was against the wishes of the British government...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Christian Caryl A wanted poster created by the US military for Tahir Yuldashev, leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who was killed in a US drone strike in Waziristan, Pakistan, on August 27, 2009 Most of the reports about the Pakistani Army’s offensive in Waziristan have mentioned the Islamist extremists from Uzbekistan hiding out there —but they’ve often done so without...
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