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Tag archive for ‘Uzbekistan’

• The Sting of Criticism

  Sting, who was scheduled to play tonight as part of the Astana Day festivities, has cancelled his engagement in Kazakhstan after Amnesty International apprised him of the situation with striking oil workers in West Kazakhstan: Amnesty International recently apprised Sting about the situation in Kazakhstan regarding the repression and crackdown against oil workers, their union […]

  7/04/11 • (1)

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  Kalon Mosque in Top Ten

  Just a small ego-booster. My photo of the Kalon Mosque in Bukhara was voted one of the top ten photos in the Travel and Adventure in Asia Challenge on Redbubble As per my usual shameless plug, my photos are for sale on Redbubble, so feel free to browse around for a Memorial Day gift!

  5/31/10 • (Comments Off on Kalon Mosque in Top Ten)

• Olympics Update

  Back to the 2008 Olympic Games and in the couple of days I skipped, Kazakhstan picked up 2 silver and 1 bronze medals. In total Kazakhstan now has: 2 silver in weightlifting and 1 bronze; 2 bronze in wrestling and 1 silver in judo. Just last night, Mariya Grabovetskaya took the bronze in weightlifting, 75+ […]

  8/14/08 • (Comments Off on Olympics Update)

• Batu’s Wife Historically Significant

  An Iranian website has put up a list of historically significant women in and near Iran and Khanum Boraksin, the wife of Batu, son of Chinghis Khan, makes the list. 1255-57 Regent Dowager Khanum Boraqcin of Hwarizim Sahi (or the Khanate of Kipchak) (Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) She was the widow of Batu, who was khan […]

  3/09/08 • (Comments Off on Batu’s Wife Historically Significant)

• Public Corruption Percieved as Worse

  The Corruption Perceptions Index for 2007 from Transparency International was released on the 27th of September. A table of the results can be found here. Kazakhstan, with a score of 2.1 out of 10, is tied with Azerbaijan, the Republic of Congo, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Tajikistan, Zimbabwe and 5 other countries as 150th for corruption in […]

  10/06/07 • (Comments Off on Public Corruption Percieved as Worse)

• Sexiest Leader in the Post-Soviet Space

  NR2.ru is holding a contest to vote for the sexiest CIS President. At the moment, Putin (Russia) and Edward Kokoyty (South Ossetia–and his presence in the list tells you this is a Russian survey!) are neck-in-neck. Nazarbayev, whose birthday is in 2 days (and I will post on what’s been going on in Astana for […]

  7/04/07 • (Comments Off on Sexiest Leader in the Post-Soviet Space)

• Kazakhs released from Guantanamo Bay

  Three Kazakhs out of four allegedly held have been released from Guantanomo Bay: The three Kazakhs arrived in their Central Asian homeland on Saturday and were met by relatives who took them home, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Ilyas Omarov. Omarov said the three would not face investigation and charges “because their release means that they […]

  12/22/06 • (Comments Off on Kazakhs released from Guantanamo Bay)

• A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia, by Langston Hughes

  Copied from Harvard’s Central-Eurasia-L – Announcement List Available for order from Kyrgyzstan: A reprint of Langston Hughes’ memoirs of traveling in Central Asia. Description and ordering info behind the cut, although I have to say that I contacted the editor and haven’t heard back from him since, so I don’t know how reliable he is. […]

  7/27/06 • (Comments Off on A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia, by Langston Hughes)

• Andijon Video

  Video of the Andijon Uprising This video–70 minutes long–was put together from two videos made on the scene, both confiscated by the government of Uzbekistan. It’s been edited and used to prove the government’s case that it was just defending itself from well-armed and funded international terrorists (In one accusation–well-armed Islamic terrorists bent on creating […]

  6/26/06 • (Comments Off on Andijon Video)