The BBC, Eurasianet and other media outlets (see also Jakarta News) are reporting that at least 40 young children, mostly babies, have been infected with HIV at a regional hospital in Namangan.
The infections were reportedly …

Salom do’stlarim! Forgive me, I have not posted for aeons but something’s been irking me and I need to get it off my chest. We’ve already had posts from Rashid and Libertad on FC Bunyodkor, …

Last Friday (May 16) police in France, Germany and the Netherlands arrested 10 men suspected of providing funds to the Islamic Movment of Uzbekistan (IMU) (AP). Eight of the suspects were arrested in France and …

The BBC World Service has produced a documentary about the murdered Tashkent theatre director Mark Weil (guardian obituary here). The documentary is called ‘Beyond Mark Weil’ and is presented by the always excellent Natalya Antaleva. …

The Washington Post carries a snappy review of a Central Asian restaurant in NYC that specialises in kosher food. Taam-Tov is based in the Diamond District and focuses on the cuisine of Bukhara, which has …

It seems likely that the British Government will support the continued suspension of the visa ban on Uzbek officials when the matter comes up for discussion at the end of the month. On 29 April …

An Uzbek human rights activist has urged the EU not to soften its line on Uzbekistan. Writing in the guardian, Abdujalil Boymatov – who has been granted refugee status in Ireland – argues that, ‘Repressive …

The New Yorker has a profile of Paul Wolfowitz, erstwhile neocon and now President of the World Bank (but not for much longer, maybe …). Few people divide opinion quite like Wolfowitz, but he didn’t …

BBC correspondent Alan Johnston has been kidnapped in Gaza in the Palestinian Territories, and so the BBC has been rebroadcasting some of his reports for the foreign affairs programme From Our Own Correspendent. One of …

Hi. A few months ago the hard-drive on my iBook went kaput and I lost all my music (please, spare the lecture on why I should’ve backed up all my data … I know!) Anyway, …