Stories about Uzbekistan from March, 2010
Tajikistan: Bargaining over dams and shipments
Tajik and Uzbek officials traded barbs during the security conference in Dushanbe. The argument concerned freight train shipments for Tajikistan that have been stalled on Uzbek territory, but as neweurasia’s...
Uzbekistan: They Cancelled Navroz
Nathan Hamm informs his readers that public Navroz celebrations were cancelled in Uzbekistan – allegedly because of bad weather, but no official announcements were made about the cancellation.
Uzbekistan: Children infected with HIV
Joshua Foust reports that two hospitals in Namangan have been identified in a newly released documentary as infecting at least 140 children with HIV, resulting in the deaths of at...
Uzbekistan: Economic purge
Dafydd takes a look at various versions of why did the Uzbekistan's president order the arrest of a whole slew of Uzbekistan’s richest people.
Uzbekistan: Analyzing the extremists groups
Joshua Foust analyzes some questionable points from the SWJ essay about the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan: Anti-AIDS activist sentenced
Nathan Hamm reports that Uzbekistan's anti-AIDS campaigner Maksim Popov was sentenced in to seven years in prison. The court found that a brochure he distributed is “incompatible with local traditions.”
