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Uzbekistan: The Sting Saga

Written byAdil Nurmakov

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Posted 8 May 2010 3:51 GMT

Sarah Kendzior writes about the recent scandal in press around Sting's concert in Tashkent in honor of Uzbek president's daughter – and about how this fact atracted a new wave of interest of the Western media to human rights record in Uzbekistan.

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