The Moscow Forum of European and Asian Media opened last Thursday to much fanfare.  Valery Niyazmatov, Uzbek journalist and editor of the Russian-language newspaper New Century, put this interesting question to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev:

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In November I participated in two surveys online by loyal to the Uzbek government Uzniform information agency and couldn’t wait to share with its final results with you. Want to emphasize in advance that …

Last week Tashkent hosted a gala-concert of Yangi Avlod (Uzbek, New generation) festival organized and presented by Fund Forum and Kamalak (Uzbek, Rainbow; sister organization of Kamolot) with the support of the United Nations Children’s …

Transparency International‘s Corruption Perceptions Index 2009 (CPI) again and again showed us that two out of five countries of our region are in the list of 10 most corrupt countries in the world. To say …

Yestreday, November 16, President Karimov signed a decree on increasing the salaries, pensions, stipends and social allowances which says that starting from 1 December 2009 salaries, pensions, social allowances and stipends will be increased 1.12 …

This past April, the daughter of Uzbekistan’s president hired Italian supermodel Monica Bellucci to attend a gala for her new charity. The price: $300,000. “I suspect that the real goal of the event wasn’t to promote this joke of a charity,” writes neweurasia’s Musafirbek, “but to promote Uzbekistan as a happy, shiny country with happy, shiny people that is seeking happy, shiny development…”

neweurasia reported last week on the decision of EU Council to lift its last sancitons on the government of Uzbekistan. These sanctions were imposed after the tragic events in Andijan in May 2005. neweurasia’s Musafirbek presents a round-up of reactions from prominent media organizations both online and off.

Residents of Brussels often refer to the area of their city that houses the European Union’s Council of Ministers as the “European ghetto”. Considering the Council’s decision on Tuesday to lift the last sanctions on Uzbekistan, perhaps they’re right, says neweurasia’s Musafirbek.

October 24 2007 was a casual autumn night in Osh for many of its citizens. But for the whole journalist community of Central Asia it wasn’t… neweurasia’s Musafirbek comments on the example of Alisher Saipov, a young, adventurous, and forthright journalist and editor whose assassination still leaves aching questions.

Today Reporters Without Borders published their Press Freedom Index 2009 which measures the state of press freedom in the world and reflects the degree of freedom that journalists and news organisations enjoy in each country. neweurasia’s Musafirbek presents a brief review of the Index’s findings with a view of the journalism situation in Central Asia.