Tag Archives: Uzbekistan

Book Review: Sovietistan

Posted on June 1, 2024 by nathanalbright

Sovietistan: Travels In Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, by Erika Fatland In this book, a generally clueless European crypto-journalist finds herself traveling among the wreckage of Soviet Central Asia vainly seeking to understand its people, its history, and its … Continue reading →

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Dispatches From A Political Junkie

Posted on May 2, 2023 by nathanalbright

Like many people in this and every age, I am a person who is deeply fascinated by matters of politics. This sort of interest does not spring from any belief in my fitness at or desire to achieve any sort … Continue reading →

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Qorqmaymiz: We Are Not Afraid

Posted on July 23, 2015 by nathanalbright

Today, while reading a post about the bravery of some Uzbeks, both in exile and in their native homeland, in going to a website and posting under their own names and sharing information that is deemed unacceptable in Uzbekistan [1], … Continue reading →

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Uzbekistan And The War On Children

Posted on April 16, 2012 by nathanalbright

This morning one of my friends sent me a chilling BBC report about life in Uzbekistan that relates simultaneously to several of this blog’s concerns, including the fate of children [1], why no one from Uzbekistan has ever read this … Continue reading →

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