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Articles by Musafirbek Ozod

Born September 2, 1979, Musafirbek, or “Musa” as he’s often called, is an expatriate accountant with a private passion for blogging and his homeland, Uzbekistan. He writes for several online and offline news outlets, including Ferghana.ru, and, of course, neweurasia.

Jazz Quartet has begun its tour of Uzbekistan
Sunday, 14 Jun, 2009 – 11:21 | One Comment

This is a translation of Musafirbek’s post.
The Brian Horton Quartet started its tour of Uzbekistan with a concert at the Turkiston Palace in Tashkent, where it was supposed to perform with local singer Aysel Balich. …

She was their leader
Sunday, 14 Jun, 2009 – 10:32 | No Comment

Acting Head of Public Service to combat drug Serdar Batyrov reported the fact of identifying a group of persons engaged in the illicit distribution of narcotic drugs, Tred.Az reports with a reference to the state …

Dangerous Uzbek-Kyrgyz border: a civilian killed
Monday, 8 Jun, 2009 – 14:43 | One Comment

As Ferghana.ru information agency reports, at the dawn of June 7 around 5 a.m. another lethal incident took place at the border of Uzbekistan. As neweurasia reported the last lethal accident happened at Tajik-Uzbek border. …

Fundraising trainings by IREX Tajikistan
Monday, 1 Jun, 2009 – 16:27 | One Comment

IREX Tajikistan invites everybody to a Professional Development: Fundraising Training
which will be held on Monday, June 8th, at Business Restaurant Dusti’s Conference Hall in Khujand.
The training will be held in English and will begin …

Bishkek through Uzbek eyes
Monday, 1 Jun, 2009 – 16:03 | No Comment
Bishkek through Uzbek eyes
Another border incident: resident of Zafarabad province killed
Thursday, 14 May, 2009 – 11:15 | One Comment

[inspic=41,left,fullscreen,350] In the morning of May 12 Uzbek border guards gunned down 34-year old citizen of Tajikistan Alisher Boikuziev at the Khavast part of Syr Darya Oblast in Uzbekistan. Sodikdjon Mirzoev, the assistant to the …

Whom should I thank for such a popularity of my country in the list of totalitarian regimes?
Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 – 16:03 | 4 Comments

Translation of post (RUS) by the author.
[inspic=143,left,250]Last week the British Guardian published a country profile on Uzbekistan where underlined that “President Islam Karimov is the harshest dictator in the former Soviet region.”
As popoular tabloid reminds, …

Borat explored to be a relative to some of Uzbek politicians
Monday, 4 May, 2009 – 17:02 | 5 Comments

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Translation of post (RUS) by Alisher Taksanov.
Yesterday, May 3, RTL German TV-channel aired Borat movie. And we, people in Switzerland, could also “enjoy” it because the channel airs for our country too. As soon as …

67 USD worthy heroism…
Monday, 27 Apr, 2009 – 17:39 | 6 Comments

While preparing to celebrate 2200-anniversary of Tashkent our President decreed to reward veterans of WWII beforehand. Everything would be fine if not a childish amount of the reward:
1. Determine one-time money reward to the …

For how long this is going to be happen?
Saturday, 25 Apr, 2009 – 5:34 | One Comment

Recently Uzbek authorities made another severe step on the way of showing it’s people that “Children are responsible for their parents” – a rule which was the essence of Stalin’s regime.
This time a five-year-old child …