Stories about Uzbekistan from August, 2008
Uzbekistan: Singing in a problem
Libertad uploads a video of Uzbek schoolchildren singing old war-time Soviet song in a former shore of Aral Sea which is disappearing in the largest environmental catastrophe of the century.
Soviet History: Russian-Korean Migration in Central Asia II
Otto's Random Thoughts expands upon a previous story about Russian-Korean migration in Central Asia from the late 1930s.
Russia: Solar Eclipse and Politics in Samara
Russian photojournalist Oleg Klimov was in the city of Samara on August 1, the day of a total eclipse of the Sun, to meet with representatives of the local opposition. On his blog, he described a rare case of conjunction of Russian politics and astronomy.
Uzbekistan: Statement on Behalf of the Political Prisoner
Libertad posts a text of the speech given to the United Nations by Gulambek Umarov, the son of an Uzbekistan political prisoner.
