These are the topics that are covered in the latest International Crisis Group report on Uzbekistan Political Murder in Central Asia: No Time to End Uzbekistan’s Isolation. The ICG report as usually deeply elaborates on …

A very interesting video of the discussion between Natalia Antaleva, a BBC correspondent based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Shohida Tolaganova, an Uzbek journalist and filmmaker based in London, and Craig Murray, an ex-ambassador of UK to …

“I swear to serve the people of Uzbekistan, honor the Constitution and the law, guarantee rights and freedoms of citizens of the republic, and perform functions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan to …

A teenager from the academic school in Samarqand, Maruf Karimov, invented a “perpetual” car engine powered by a very unusual kind of fuel – air! The student managed to start a conventional internal combustion engine …

Continuing the topic of labor migrants. Here are photos taken by the member of the Rapid Response Group during conducting the research on Uzbek labor migrants going to Russia.
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In this photos you can see the …

[inspic=22,left,fullscreen,140] It is not a secret any more that a great part of male population of Uzbekistan, mainly from rural areas, annually leave their homes and families and travel mostly to Russia and Kazakhstan in …

This post is part of the crossblog survey “2007 in retrospect”. You can also vote on the most important event of 2007 in our online poll.
In 2007, the English blog of Uzbekistan in …

Information Agency Fergana.Ru is known for its timely and objectively given information about Central Asian countries. Its council of experts includes famous historians, journalists and political analysts from different countries of CIS. The information that …

On Sunday, December 9, 2007, a small boat that carried 7 people, a captain and six Uzbek refugees, sank into the sea on its way to Cyprus in the Mediterranean province of Antalya’s Gazipasa town, …

“Apologies to all of our recently acquired Uzbek friends, but rip-offs in Uzbekistan – particularly along the touristy parts of the Silk Road – seem endemic.â€?- says one of the tourists, who recently paid a …