neweurasia’s Pravdin gets reactions from international organizations on the ground in Uzbekistan to the EU’s decision to lift the Andijan sanctions. What he finds may surprise you. “It may have been a compromise with the devil,” he writes, “but in the world of politics perhaps the true saints are those who can make such choices.”

Browser maker Opera published a new report on the state of mobile Web usage (ENG) in different countries around the world. It is soothing to see that the Opera team addressed one of the hot …

Economic sanctions may be a noble way to show solidarity of some players of international community but those are rarely successful. It may seem obvious but yet it is exactly what is missing in the …

BREAKING NEWS: Saturday evening horrified the sleepy capital of Uzbekistan by gunfire happening almost simultaneously in different parts of the city. Ferghana.ru claimed(ENG) the gunfire had been heard in at least three districts of the city located miles from one another. People living in those districts witnessed dead bodies left in the middle of the streets.

Internet censorship in Uzbekistan has been visibly ever-present and, at the same time, publicly denied by the government. The issue, although not as pressing as imprisonment of human rights activists, economic decline and political corruption, is undoubtedly crucial and, unfortunately, is here to stay. However, it is worth to tone down emotions and ask just how effective is Internet censorship in a country that is slowly embracing the development of new technologies, says neweurasia’s Pravdin.

It is hard to argue against importance of a “failed state” characteristics and their and unfortunate influence on all sorts of conditions in Uzbekistan but it also helps to reframe the conventional thinking and start treating Uzbekistan as a private enterprise rather than a legitimate country.