An aspiring medical student is crushed to death during entrance exams in Uzbekistan while mobile companies seek to cash in on students’ anxieties, reports neweurasia’s Abulfazal. He goes looking for answers into her death, only to confront a wall of silence and ignorance. “Are they really going to let a young girl’s death fade away in silence and denial?” he writes.

Uzbekistan opposition activist Azamat Azimov, who operated in Tamerlane’s hometown of Shahrisabz, has been found guilty of drug possession charges that his supporters say were “100% politically motivated”, reports neweurasia’s Abulfazal. His supporters are vowing protests and hunger strikes to earn his release.

The last few weeks, the people of Tashkent have experienced the kind of weather that makes me think the old weather gods may be angry with Uzbekistan. We’ve been hit by sand-filled winds, tropical …

EurasiaNet‘s got a new blog about Turkmenistan that’s focused on diplomacy and personality politics.  It’s run by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick,  a New York-based freelance writer and Russian translator, who also edits the Turkmenistan News Brief …

Ravshan Irmatov in action. Photo courtesy Uzbek Football Federation.
As FIFA’s official web-site announced yesterday, its Referee Committee had assigned Ravshan Irmatov from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) as referee for the Opening Match of the …

Presidents of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov and Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov: Leaders of the two worst of the worst. Collage by neweurasia.
On June 3 2010 Freedom House, an international human rights watchdog, released a new report, “Worst of …

neweurasia has reported earlier, Birdamlik people’s non-violent movement hold a protest in front of the Honorary Consulate of Sweden in St.Louis, Missouri, to demand the Swedish government prevent the deportation of five Uzbeks to Uzbekistan …

Gulnara Karimova has once again proved that money can buy everything and everywhere. This time she payed her co-chairmanship at the Cinema Against AIDS event hosted by the AmfAR Foundation. neweuraia’s Abulfazal emphasizes the game of double standards — the foundation has signed a petition to release Maksim Popov, who contradicted Uzbek traditions by distributing a brochure about the need to use condoms to combat AIDS.

As neweurasia was informed by Bakhodir Choriyev, leader of Birdamlik people’s movement, activists of the movement hold a picket in front of the Honorary Consulate of Sweden in St. Louis, Missouri, on May 28, 2010. …

Today is an International Children’s Day. Every year on this day I wonder: What has our government done for children? Except for fancy events with international stars what has been done to make our children feel confident about their future? Do they still have the hope of becoming citizens of a great country in future? neweurasia’s Abulfazal reminds us how important it is to preserve a childhood of every little citizen of your country and have their rights working in real life…