March 2006

links for 2006-03-28

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Columns for Karimov–Updated

by Nathan Hamm

With Islam Karimov about to visit South Korea, The Korea Herald has a series of articles painting a rosy picture of all things Karimov. Well, perhaps that’s being a bit unfair. The content is not entirely their fault. The worst of the articles are, as one sees way down at the bottom of each, supplied [...]

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Mongolia at Neweurasia

by Nathan Hamm

neweurasia has a new Mongolia blog that’s cranking out posts. The author, Luke Distelhorst is a student at Western Washington University currently on leave and in Mongolia.

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Reading the Rukhnama for Salvation

by Nathan Hamm

According to an AFP report that has been picked up a few other places, Turkmenbashi said on TV that reading the Rukhnama can guarantee accesss to heaven. “Anyone who reads the Rukhnama three times will find spiritual wealth, will become more intelligent, will recognize the divine being and will go straight to heaven,” Niyazov said, [...]

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Kazakhstan & The OSCE

by Nathan Hamm

This goes without saying. The chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) today told Kazakhstan that it has a better chance of leading the organization in 2009 than any other Central Asian state. Well, I guess he (Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht) had to say something nice to offset the [...]

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Online Photo Exhibition

by CXW

Photographer Christopher Herwig has a new exhibition of photos from Central Asia up on his website. It is a beautiful collection of images and well worth a look. Elsewhere, Gazeta.kg has photos from the Nooruz celebrations in Bishkek yesterday.

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UNHCR expelled from Uzbekistan

by CXW

BBC News reports that the UNHCR has been given one month to leave Uzbekistan: According to the UNHCR, the government statement said the agency had “fully implemented its tasks and there are no evident reasons for its further presence in Uzbekistan. With this regard, the ministry requests UNHCR to close its office in Tashkent within [...]

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Out of Office

by Nathan Hamm

It’s been a busy few months here at One Registan.net Plaza, and I must be off for a while. After about ten weeks of rarely getting much further south than NE Pacific Street and no further north than NE 135th Street (the E & W are even more restrictive…), I’m getting away for a while. [...]

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links for 2006-03-18

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Busy Week for Turkmenbashi

by Nathan Hamm

So, just the other day, Turkmenbashi offered up his plans for a great forest of cedars to moderate Turkmenistan’s climate while also demanding that work on the lake being built in the desert be sped up. He appears to have been up to plenty more this week though. On television yesterday, he railed against fools. [...]

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