Registan’s Uzbekistan News & Analysis Archive

Uzbekistan has been the most topic subject of coverage at Registan since our launch in 2003. Several Registan authors have lived, worked, and studied in Uzbekistan and have between them decades of experience in academia, government, and private industry dealing with topics related to Uzbekistan. We use that experience and expertise to report on, contextualize, and analyze current events in Uzbekistan. Our most current coverage of Central Asia news can be found on our front page. Inquiries about our Uzbekistan news and analysis, hiring Registan authors to consult on Uzbekistan, or any other topic, can be submitted via the contact form on our about page.

Has War in Afghanistan Ruined Central Asia?

by Nathan Hamm
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While Central Asia’s international political profile has risen considerably since 2001, it has primarily been seen in the West through the prism of Afghanistan. The policies of Western governments towards Central Asia as a whole and as individual states have widely fluctuated, but in almost every case, been heavily shaped by policies toward Afghanistan. US [...]

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Uzbek News Censors Karimov Comments on Birth Control

by Nathan Hamm
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Uzbekistan’s popular Axborot news program showed that even Islom Karimov must be censored if he speaks about subjects too sensitive for Uzbekistan’s national mentality. According a report originally published by Ozodlik (in Uzbek), Axborot cut a portion of comments Karimov delivered while meeting with President Putin in Moscow. During his talk with Putin, Karimov brought [...]

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Usmanov, Devourer of Websites, Loves Facebook

by Joshua Foust
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Alisher Usmanov, the world’s richest libel tourist and oh yeah Uzbek-turned-Russian magnate of extractive industries, stands to profit massively from the upcoming Facebook IPO: As other investors were demanding tough terms, he said in an interview this week, he and his Russian business associates were willing to buy almost 10 percent of the company while [...]

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The Pencils… They’ve Moved!

by Nathan Hamm

President Karimov meeting with the President of FIFA in his favorite suit and with his favorite pencils at his side. Does he have hundreds of this same suit and tie or what?

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Child Labor Protest Planned for NATO Summit

by Nathan Hamm

The following announcement was posted at the request of Awareness Projects International From May 20-21 of 2012, leaders from around the world will be gathering in Chicago for The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) important diplomatic summit hosted by President Barack Obama. Chicago is the first American city other than Washington DC to host a [...]

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Focus on the “Social” in Social Media

by Nathan Hamm
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Earlier this week, Small Wars Journal published an article by Matthew Stein, a research analyst currently working at the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, discussing the role of videos recorded and posted by citizen bystanders in the information battle to control the narrative over the police’s violent crackdown on protesters in Zhanaozen [...]

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Cotton Campaign Calls for ILO Access to Uzbekistan

by Nathan Hamm

The Cotton Campaign has sent a letter to Hillary Clinton to urge the Uzbek government to end the use of forced labor in the cotton industry. The letter (PDF) provides a good summary of the issues at hand in this year’s determination of Uzbekistan’s status in the State Department’s annual trafficking in persons (TIP) report. [...]

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Due Diligence, Googoosha, and Komen for the Cure

by Nathan Hamm
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On Tuesday, I reported on the Susan G. Komen Uzbekistan Race for the Cure and the apparent relationships between Susan G. Komen for the Cure in the US and various charities run by Gulnora Karimova, including Fund Forum. A representative from Komen contacted me yesterday to correct what she described as inaccuracies in that original [...]

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Gulnora’s Race For the Cure

by Nathan Hamm
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UPDATE: As mentioned at the bottom of this post, there is an update following my conversation with a representative from Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Due to its length, I’ve made it its own post. As is always the case, the Uzbek media can be counted on to bring enlightening and groundbreaking coverage on [...]

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Chicken Politics

by Joshua Foust

I have a piece up at the Atlantic, discussing why chickens sometimes factor heavily into national politics. Chickens are a surprising bellwether for international economic and political issues. Sounding for all the world like some modern-day Khrushchevian Red Plenty economic master plan, the Uzbek government has demanded that not only agriculture do more, but that [...]

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