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And the Best Blogger Award for 2011 goes to…
Written by on Monday, 12 December 2011
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And the Best Blogger Award for 2011 goes to…

We are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Best Blogger Award: Gulasal Kamolova (gulasal.wordpress.com) and Tashpulat Rahmatulaev (rtoshpulat.blogspot.com). Both are bloggers working in Uzbekistan.

Taking a peek at the panopticon
Written by on Friday, 9 December 2011
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Taking a peek at the panopticon

WikiLeaks has released a cache of documents from 160 international intelligence contractors who are engaged in developing software and tools to monitor, disrupt and even hijack communications devices. There’s so far no word yet about what made it’s way into Central Asia, but we’ve got a small picture about the region’s big neighbor to the north…

Speaker Keldibekov speaks in vain, doomed to step down
Written by on Friday, 9 December 2011
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I have hard time understanding Speaker Akhmatbek Keldibekov’s desperate attempts to keep his position.  As someone involved in politics for quite some time now, he must realize that election of a new president inevitable entails …

World Bank launches new Country Partnership Strategy with Uzbekistan
Written by on Thursday, 8 December 2011
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World Bank launches new Country Partnership Strategy with Uzbekistan

On December 6, 2011, the World Bank Group’s Board of Directors approved a new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Uzbekistan, providing the framework for World Bank Group assistance to Uzbekistan between 2012 and 2015, World …

An Uzbek PM on Facebook; A funny fantasy or for real?
Written by on Wednesday, 7 December 2011
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Have you gotten a “Friend Request” from O’zbekiston Respublikasi Bosh vaziri, Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Facebook yet? His personal page has 1,818 Friends, explains him to be a 100% …

Will there be a “Eurasian Spring”? No and yes
Written by on Tuesday, 6 December 2011
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Will there be a “Eurasian Spring”? No and yes

Last week I gave a lecture at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on whether or not an “Arab Spring”-style revolution could happen in Eurasia and more specifically in Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. My answer was: probably …

Reshuffle for a brighter future… for Karimov himself?
Written by on Tuesday, 6 December 2011
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Uzbek Parliament’s decision to pass amendment to article 90 of the Constitution, which reduces the length of Presidential term from current seven to five years, is, most probably, the sexiest topic to discuss within different …

Nov 28-Dec 2: New political page
Written by on Tuesday, 6 December 2011
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Bishkek Mayor Isa Omurkulov’s claimed he is going to ask the court to reconsider the acquittal of his son, on Monday, 28 November 2011. Mayor Omurkulov issued a statement indicating his son, who killed three …

World Human Rights Day in Uzbekistan
Written by on Sunday, 4 December 2011
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U.S. Embassy Tashkent invites people to participate in a few events dedicated to honor Human Rights Day celebrated on December 10, the day when United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of …

Officials vs. Corruption in Uzbekistan: Bees vs. Honey?
Written by on Saturday, 3 December 2011
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The same day Transparency International issued its annual Corruption Perceptions Index 2011 (CPI) that ranks countries/territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be, and where Uzbekistan is in a group of …