The Central Asian Pavilion at the the 55th Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia), curators Ayatgali Tuleubek and Tiago Bom would like to invite artists to submit proposals of works to be hosted at the …

The School of Peacemaking and Media Technology announces the start of a new competition for a training session among local Kyrgyz- and Uzbek-speaking journalists, who represent print and online media in Osh, Jalalabat and …

Translator’s Note: Translated from Jamil’s post (RUS).
On March 14, 2011, Mukhiddin Khojimuradov suggested to his compatriots Khairulla and Sunatullo Yuldashevs from Chinaz region of Tashkent oblast that they move to Kazakhstan’s city of Turkestan, where …

Translator’s Note: Originally written by neweurasia’s Nuraika (RUS)
TEDxBishkek. As we had previously announced, last Saturday was the day of TEDxBishkek – the first event of this kind and scale in Bishkek. The actual event took …

Local media are still actively discussing the stalemate situation around 8 contested presidential candidates. Around 50 people went protesting in front of the Central Election Commission today (October 4th) to back those who had previously …

Translator’s note: This post is based upon Mashrab’s original from Russian. It is not a literal translation.
Only a few weeks ago, the National information Agency (UzA) — the country’s main propaganda engine — declared the …

“Legal Media-Center” Public Foundation invites journalists for trainings in Astana and Almaty. The initiative is supported by OSCE Center in Astana and is aimed at increasing the journalists’ professional level. The international standards of journalism …

Translator’s note: Translated from Abulfazal’s post (RUS), which I thought would be appropriate re: Annasoltan’s Top Story.
Turkmenistan is actually not the first country to computerize its first graders: in 2009, it was Uruguay, where each …

Translator’s Note: The following piece has been translated from Solomon Tihonov’s post. If you have comments/questions directly to the author, please refer to the original (RUS).
It has now been more than year since the …

Translator’s Note: Translated from Mashrab’s post (RUS).
The first days of Ramadan in Uzbekistan have started with large-scale arrests of the believers, reports Surat Ikramov, the Chairman of the Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights …